T5D1 Flashcards
Define Menopause
Women stop menstruating, have not had a period for 12 months
Average age of menopause
51
John Horn is known for
cross-sectional studies, Crystallized Intelligence
Define John Horn’s Crystallized intelligence
A person’s accumulated information and verbal skills, increases in midlife
Pertaining to John Horn’s Crystallized Intelligence, define Fluid intelligence
The ability to think logically and solve problems in new situations, decreases in midlife
What is Warner Schaie known for
Seattle Longitudinal Study
Describe Seattle Longitudinal Study
Effects of aging on intelligence, midlife is the time of peak performance in 4 of the 6 intellectual skills
4 Intellectual skills in the Seattle Longitudinal Study
verbal comprehension, verbal memory, spatial orientation, inductive reasoning
National Survey of the Changing Workforce (NSCW)
4 changes of the workforce
- Jobs are less secure now
- Jobs are not 9-5 anymore now
- People work more hours on the job now
- Instead of staying home, women work outside the house now
Define Generativity
Finding meaning in life through nurturing the next generation
Generativity leads to what
higher eudaimonic happiness (having purpose and meaning)
Define higher eudaimonic happiness
having purpose and meaning
Four factors of generativity
Biological (having children)
Parental (parent children)
Work (passing on skills)
Culture (passing on culture)
Define biological generativity
having children
Define parental generativity
parenting children
Define work generativity
passing on skills
Define culture generativity
passing on culture
Describe Levinson:
Qualitative research on midlife
in-depth interviews with 40 men and biographic information from famous men.
Outcome: midlife=crisis
Describe Vaillant (the Grant Study)
Quantitative research on 268 men, longitudinally studied over 75 years and ongoing.
Outcome: midlife ≠ crisis
Main outcome of the Grant Study
warmth of relationships has the greatest positive impact on life satisfaction
Most research and developmental experts say that midlife is what
NOT a crisis for the majority of people
Strategies for parents/children related to empty nest syndrome
- Discuss splits for bills and household work
- Parents treat children as adults and let go of parenting role
- Children should negotiate expectations of their behavior with their parents before moving in and set a deadline for moving out
From 2001 to 2011, was there an increase of decrease in young adults living at home
increase all 18-24 and 18-34 categories
Summary of getting stuck in the negative video
Research on feeling happy in old age, three studies randomly assigned people to two groups, described procedure/governor in terms of success and failure, failure was stickier than success, “loss frame” is stickier, we have to work harder to see the upside of things, writing about happiness and talking about happiness makes people happier
