theories for midterm

Question 1

micro level theories

Answer 1

individuals experiences, behaviour, personality

Question 2

macro level theories

Answer 2

social insitutions, social structures and policies

Question 3

interpretive perspective

Answer 3

focuses on micro level social life

Question 4

the functionalist perspective

Answer 4

social order is based on consensus, cooperation and shared norms&values, all parts of society serve as a role or function to keep society balanced

Question 5

structural functionalist theory

Answer 5

treats society as a system of social institutions, society is constantly adjusting and evolving to internal or external pressures

Question 6

disengagement theory

Answer 6

mutual withdrawal of individual and society (criticized)

Question 7

activity theory

Answer 7

engagement in activity helps with adjustment to aging

Question 8

continuity theory

Answer 8

adjustment to aging involves maintaining consistent sense of self with the past and activities and values from mid life - continue what youve been doing

Question 9

age stratification theory

Answer 9

movement of age cohorts over time as they age

role of social structures in the process of aging in society

Question 10

life course perspective theory

Answer 10

bridges micro and macro levels

looks at transitions and trajectories of individual

Question 11

conflict perspective theory

Answer 11

society consists of conflicts between dominant and subordinate social groups

Question 12

political economy theory

Answer 12

study of aging in context of larger political, historical, economic and social forces. capitalist - cause problems for elders

Question 13

cumulative disadvantage theory

Answer 13

disadvantages earlier in life accumulate over the life course

Question 14

moral economy theory

Answer 14

focuses on shared values and social norms that shape popular beliefs in the legitimacy of certain policies and practices

Question 15

post-modern theory

Answer 15

contrasts modern society with past society- older ppl can create identity and meaning of their old age

Question 16

demographic determinism

Answer 16

The assumption that population dynamics direct the future of social interactions and social institutions

Question 17

apocalyptic demography

Answer 17

the use of demographic facts to project high cost of aging population and prediction that it will lead to economics and social crisis

Question 18

activities of daily living ADL

Answer 18

daily activities such as bathing, moving from bed to chair, dressing, eating, walking

Question 19

instrumental activities of daily living IADL

Answer 19

home management, using phone, shopping, cooking

Question 20

fluid intelligence

Answer 20

reasoning, abstract thinking, knowledge gained through schooling/reading - decreases with age

Question 21

crystallized intelligence

Answer 21

depends on stored info, numerical and verbal skills, increases with age

Question 22

sarcopenia

Answer 22

age-associated decline in muscle mass and quantity

Question 23

plaques

Answer 23

abnormal clusters of protein that stops transmission of info

Question 24

tangles

Answer 24

dead and dying nerve cells contain tangles of another protein

Question 25

frontotemporal dementia

Answer 25

average on set of 57

behaviour changes, depression, hard time speaking

Question 26

lewy body dementia

Answer 26

abnormal deposits of protien in brain cells
similar symptoms to alzhiemers and parkinsons
tremors, hallucinations, rem sleep disorder
3rd common

Question 27

Vascular dementia

Answer 27

brain cells deprived of O2=dying
more common in women
2nd common

Question 28

mixed dementia

Answer 28

mix of 2 or more types

alzheimers with vascular or LBD is pop.

Question 29

alzheimers

Answer 29

most common
affects everyone differently
physical damage to brain
broken into 3 stages- early, middle, late

Question 30

contextual approach of memory

Answer 30

idea that many conditions influence memory including physical, psych, social contexts, knowledge, abilities of individual etc