Psych 3 Flashcards
What is Piagets potential 5th stage
Postformal
How does co-habitiation relate to divorce
People who co-habit are more likely to get divorced
Erikson adult stages
Intimacy vs isolation
Generativity vs stagnation
Intregrity vs despair
Young adult (18-40) Erikson
Intimacy vs isolation
Middle adulthood (40-65)
Generativity vs stagnation
Late adulthood
Intregity vs despair
What percent of us couples are infertile
15%
What is infertility
Trying and failing for more than a year to have a baby
BMI that is considered obese
30
How does exercise help adults
1) Strengthen heart and lungs
2) Prevents against diseases
3) Reduces risk of depression
Fluid intelligence
how you think, decreases as you age , flexablity
Crysilized intelligence
facts, increases as you age
Erikson stages of adulthood
Intimacy vs isolation
Generation vs stagnation
Intregity vs despair
Early adulthood
19-29 Intimacy vs isolation
Middle adulthood
30-65 genereativiy vs stagnation
Late adulthood
65+ intregity vs despair
Personality traits
Openess
Conscicionciness
Extroversion
Agreeablness
Nerouticness
Fictive kin
People who are honorarily a part of your family
Sandwitch gen
When you are caring for your kids and for your parents
Familism
How long after wedding are most divorces
5 yrs
Kinkeeper
Keeps fam together, arrages family events
Physical changes in middle adulthood
hair thins and greys
Skin wrinkes
muscles weaken
Ageism
Discrimination based on age
DEmography
study of population
Max life span
120
Difference between young-old and old-old
Young old don’t need any care, but old-olds need some
What is oldest old
85+
What is dementia
Pathalogical weakening of the brain
What happenes to the brains of At. victims
Plaque tangles with their brain, and their brian looses weight
How is At. realted to age
If contracted in middle adulthood, it progresses faster
Stages of At.
1) Uses lists and a little forgetful
2) Doesn’t know they have a problem, and their vocab mixes up
3) Can’t do basic needs
4) Forget loved ones and need full time care
5) mute and dead
Disengagement theory
They withdraw and their social sphere becomes smaller
Active theory
Society forces then out and they need to stay active so they replace a loss with something else
Styles of grandparenting
Involved
Remote
Compassionate
Involved Grandparenting
They are a part of kids everyday lives
Remote Grandparenting
They are distant
Compassionate Grandparenting
They spoil and don’t diciplline
Kublar Ross stages of dying
1- Denial
2- Anger
3- Bargening
4- Depression
5- Acceptance
Hospice
Terminally ill patients 6 mo. away from dying go to recieve palliative care
Palliative care
To make patients comfy
Living will
To tell people what medical interventions you want
Physican-assisted sucide
when a doctor gives a patient drugs to end life
Healthcare proxy
Person to make medical decicions for you
Thanology
Study of dying
