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Ageism

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a form of discrimination against older adults based on their age.

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Paul Baltes’ 4 key features

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multidirectionality, plasticity, historical context, multiple causation

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Multidirectionality

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development involves both growth and decline; as people grow in one area, they may lose in another and at different rates.

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Plasticity

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skills can be trained or improved with practice even later on in life

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Historical context

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each of us develops within a particular set of circumstances determined the historical time in which we are born and the culture in which we grow up

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Multiple causation

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how people develop results from a wide variety of forces: biological, psychological, sociocultural, and life-cycle forces.

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Primary aging

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normal, disease-free development during adulthood

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Secondary aging

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developmental changes that are related to disease, lifestyle, and other environmentally induced changes that are not inevitable

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Tertiary aging

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rapid losses that occur shortly before death

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Nature-nurture issue

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involves the degree to which genetics or hereditary influences (nature) and experiential or environmental influences (nurture) determine the kind of person you are.

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Stability-change issue

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concerns the degree to which people remain the same over time

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Continuity-discontinuity controversy

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concerns whether a particular developmental phenomenon represents a smooth progression over time (continuity) or a series of abrupt shifts (discontinuity)

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Culture

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share basic values, norms, beliefs, habits, ways of living

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Ethnicity

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sense of identification (ancestral/national)

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Universal vs. context specific development controversy

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oncerns whether there is just one path of development or several

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Longitudinal study

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the same individuals are observed or tested repeatedly at different points in their lives

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Cross-sectional study

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developmental differences are identified by testing people of different ages at the same time.

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Cellular theories

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a cell can only divide a limited number of times. Telomeres (tips of chromosomes) if healthy, regulates cell division. Enzyme telomerase if insufficient reproduce to smaller size.

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Cross-linking theory

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certain proteins in human cells interact randomly and produce molecules that are linked in such a way as to make the body stiffer.

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Free radicals theory

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aging is caused by unstable reactive molecules

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Changes in skin

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wrinkles, age spots, moles, less pigment, varicose veins, thinner and drier skin

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Changes in hair

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hair loss caused by destruction of germ centers. Males don’t lose facial hair. Females gain facial hair.

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Changes in voices

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decrease volume and pitch, breathlessness and trembling, less pronunciation

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Changes in body build

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decrease in height (compression of the spine) weight gain then loss.

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Changes in mobility
muscles and strength loss: age 70- up to 20%. Age 80- up to 40%. No gender differences. Bones loss begin in late 30s, faster in 50s, slows at 70s
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Changes in vision
decrease in light, farsightedness, cataracts (opaques spots), glaucoma (high fluid pressure), macular degeneration
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Changes in hearing
damage due to loud environment
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Changes in touch
somesthesia (body sensitivity to touch): pain perception, decrease in sexual pleasure. Balance: dizziness and vertigo: the fear of falling and actual falls.
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Changes in taste
little evidence to show taste diminishes with age
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Changes in smell
taste dependent on smell. Older adults cannot identify odors as well
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Congestive heart failure
occurs when cardiac output and the ability of the heart contract severely decline.
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Angina pectoris
occurs when the oxygen supply to the heart muscle becomes insufficient, resulting in chest pains
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Myocardial infarction
occurs when blood supply to the heart is severely reduced or cut off.
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Autoimmunity
the immune system can begin attacking the body itself
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Psychoneuroimmunology
the study of the relations between psychological, neurological, and immunological systems that raise or lower our susceptibility to and ability to recover from disease
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Acute disease
conditions that develop over a short period of time and cause a rapid change in health
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Chronic disease
conditions that last a longer period of time (at least 3 months) and may be accompanied by residual functional impairment that necessitates long-term management
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Primary appraisal
categorizes events into three groups based on the significance they have for our well-being: irrelevant, benign, or positive, and stressful.
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Secondary appraisal
evaluates our perceived ability to cope with harm, threat, or challenge
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Reappraisal
involves making a new primary or secondary appraisal resulting from changes in the situation
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Competence
upper limit of a person’s ability to function in five domains: physical health, sensory-perceptual skills, motor skills, cognitive skills, and ego strength
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Environmental press
refers to the physical, interpersonal, or social deans that environments put on people
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Ecology of aging
environmental psychology, which seeks to understand the dynamic relations between older adults and the environments they inhabit
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Adult day care
designed to provide support, companionship, and certain services during the day.
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Congregate/cluster housing
includes a range of living options from those providing only housing to those providing some level of medical services.
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Assisted living facilities
housing options for older adults that provide a supportive living arrangement for people needing assistance with personal care but who are not so impaired physically or cognitively that they need 24-hour care.
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Nursing home
governed by state and federal regulations. Skilled nursing care consists of 24-hour care including skilled medical and other health services. Intermediate care is also 24-hour care including nursing supervision, but at a less intense level.
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Information-processing model
uses a computer metaphor to explain how people process stimuli
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Working memory
active processes and structure involved in holding information in mind and simultaneously using that information, sometimes in conjunction with incoming information, to solve a problem, make a decision, or learn new information.
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Semantic memory
concerns learning and remembering the meaning of words and concepts not tied to specific occurrences of events in time
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Episodic memory
general class of memory having to do with the conscious recollection of information from a specific event or point in time
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Autobiographical memory
involves remembering information and events from our own life
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Prospective memory
involves remembering to remember something in the future, such as an action or event
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Long-term memory
refers to the ability to remember rather extensive amounts of information from a few seconds to a few hours to decades
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Encoding
getting information into memory. Strategy is anything people do to make tasks easier and increase efficiency of encoding or retrieval
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Retrieval
getting information of of memory. Older people use fewer retrieval strategies.
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False memory
when one remembers items or events that did not occur
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Source memory
refers to the ability to remember the source of a familiar event as well as the ability to determine if an event imagined or actually experienced
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External memory aids
memory aids that rely on environmental resources, such as notebooks or calendars
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Internal memory aids
memory aids that rely on mental processes, such as imagery
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Four concepts of the theories of intelligence
multidirectionality, plasticity, inter individual variability, multidimensional
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Multidimensional
theories of intelligence specify many domains of intellectual abilities
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Interindividual variability
acknowledges adults differ in the direction of their intellectual development
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Mechanics of intelligence
concerns the neurophysiological architecture of the mind
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Pragmatic intelligence
concerns acquired bodies of knowledge available form and embedded within culture.
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Fluid intelligence
consists of the abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker, allow you to make inferences, and enable you yo understand the relations among concepts
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Crystallized intelligence
the knowledge you have acquired through life experience and education in a particular culture
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Primary mental abilities
hypothetical contracts into which related skills are organized (word fluency, verbal meaning, numbers, inductive reasoning, spatial orientation)
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Secondary mental abilities
related groups of mental abilities (social translations)
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Cohort effect of longitudinal and cross sectional studies on mental abilities
cross section studies show decrements, longitudinal studies show stability (even increase) in intellectual performance

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