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Unit 3 Exam Flashcards

1
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Basic self-care tasks

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Activities of daily living

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2
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Tasks associated with daily life that require cognitive competence

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Instrumental activities of daily living

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3
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Most common form of dementia

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Alzheimer’s

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4
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Set of disorders in which serious memory loss is accompanied by declines in other mental functioning

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Dementia

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5
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Increased risk for ____ in late adulthood

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Cataracts

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6
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Produces loss of memory and other aspects of thought and behavior

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Alzheimer’s

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7
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How does brain change in late adulthood?

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Becomes smaller and lighter

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8
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How is blood flow to the brain impacted in late adulthood?

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Reduced

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9
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Which gender is expected to live longer?

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Women

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10
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How is Alzheimer’s diagnosed?

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Through exclusion

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11
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Structural changes that occur in the brain of an Alzheimer’s patient

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Neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques develop

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12
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The natural physical decline brought about by aging

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Biological aging

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13
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Product of environmental influences and health habits

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Secondary aging

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14
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Period of heightened biographical memory

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Recall most events that occurred from ages 10-30

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15
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Involves telling stories about events from the past

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Reminiscence

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16
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An examination and evaluation of one’s life

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Life review

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17
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Proposes that successful aging occurs when people maintain interests, activities, and social interactions

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Activity theory

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18
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Suggests that there is a gradual withdrawal from the world

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Disengagement theory

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19
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Argues that elders adjust to aging by engaging in the same kinds of activities that interested them in earlier years

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Continuity theory

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20
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Offer an environment in which all the residents are of retirement age or older and need various levels of care

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Continuing care communities

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21
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Provide full-time nursing care for people who have chronic illnesses or are recovering from a temporary medical condition

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Skilled nursing facilities

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22
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Rates of cohabitation ____ in seniors

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Increase

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23
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Refers to the physical or psychological mistreatment or neglect of elderly

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Elder abuse

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24
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Period of retirement where people engage in activities that were hindered by work

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Honeymoon period

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25
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Conclude that retirement is not what they thought it would be

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Disenchantment

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26
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Reconsider options and become engaged in more fulfilling activities

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Reorientation

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27
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Feel fulfilled in this new phase of life

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Retirement routine

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28
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Adolescents understand the finality of death but don’t think it can happen to them

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Illusion of invulnerability

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29
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At what age do children better understand the finality of death?

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Around 5 years old

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30
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Absence of heartbeat and breathing

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Clinical (functional) death

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31
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Cessation of all signs of brain activity

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Brain death

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32
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Highest suicide rates among elderly

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White men, aged 85 and older

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33
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True or false - women report higher levels of fear surrounding death than men

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TRUE

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34
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Kubler-Ross’s Stages of Grief

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Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

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35
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Life sustaining treatment is withheld

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Passive euthanasia

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36
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One acts, at a patient’s request, to end suffering before a natural end to life

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Active euthanasia

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37
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Suicide where people simply let themselves die by not caring for themselves

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Submissive death

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38
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An indirect form of suicide by engaging in high-risk activities

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Suicidal erosions

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39
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Written statement of desired medical treatment should one become incurably ill

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Advance medical directives

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40
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Designates what medical treatments people do or do not want if they cannot express their wishes

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Living will

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41
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Authorizes another person to make healthcare decisions in one’s behalf

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Durable power of attorney

42
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Directs health care workers not to use resuscitation if the patient experiences cardiac or pulmonary arrest

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DNR

43
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Dying person stays at home and receives treatment

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Home care

44
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Care for the dying provided in places devoted to those who are terminally ill

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Hospice care

45
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Experience of losing a loved one by death

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Bereavement

46
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Intense physical and psychological distress

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Grief

47
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Culturally specified expression of the bereaved person’s thoughts and feelings

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Mourning

48
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Stages of the grief process

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Avoidance, confrontation, accommodation

49
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At age 35, _____ become the leading cause of death

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Illness and disease

50
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Assessment of an event to determine whether its implications are positive, negative, or neutral

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Primary appraisal

51
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Assessment of whether one’s resources are adequate to overcome the potential stressor

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Secondary appraisal

52
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Manage stress by directly changing the situation to make it less stressful

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Problem focused coping

53
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Involves the conscious regulation of emotion

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Emotion focused coping

54
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Involves unconscious strategies that distort or deny the true nature of the situation

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Defensive coping

55
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True or false - more than half of college students are women and women have a slightly higher graduation rate

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TRUE

56
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Refers to less risk-taking and more focus on supporting family

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Maturation reform

57
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Age-related expectations for major life events

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Social clock

58
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Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love

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Intimacy, passion, commitment

59
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Relates to closeness, affection, and connectedness

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Intimacy

60
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Relates to sex, physical closeness, and romance

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Passion

61
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Contains the cognition that one loves another person and the determination to maintain that love

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Commitment

62
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Tendency for men to marry women who are slightly younger and lower in status and vise versa

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Marriage gradient

63
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Living together without being married

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Cohabitation

64
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Average age of first marriage

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27 women, 29 men

65
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Partners relate as equals, sharing power and authority

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Egalitarian marriage

66
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Career choices are made, and discarded without regard to skills, abilities, or job opportunities

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Fantasy period

67
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Begin to think about the requirements of various jobs and how their own abilities might fit with them

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Tentative period

68
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Explore specific career options through actual experience on the job or through training

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Realistic period

69
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Oriented toward the theoretical and abstract

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Intellectual

70
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Results in loss of bone mass, brittle bones

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Osteoporosis

71
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A condition in which pressure in the fluid of the eye increases

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Glaucoma

72
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The ability to hear high frequency sound

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Presbycusis

73
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Phases of menopause - fluctuation of hormone levels

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Premenopausal

74
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Estrogen levels decline and extreme variations in timing of menstrual cycle occurs, some women experience hot flashes

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Perimenopausal

75
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Hormones drop to consistently low levels, menstruation has ceased for an entire year

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Postmenopausal

76
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Fluid intelligence ____ with age, but crystalized intelligence _____

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declines, holds steady

77
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Sees personality development in terms of universal stages, tied to a sequence of age-related crises

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Normative-crisis

78
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The events in an adult’s life, rather than age per se, determines the course of personality development

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Life event

79
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Refers to middle adults who feel squeezed between the needs of their children and their aging parents

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Sandwich generation

80
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Do not see grandchildren often

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Remote relationship

81
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Maintain frequent contact and warm interaction with grandchildren

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Companionate relationship

82
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Directly involved in the everyday care of grandchildren

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Involved relationship

83
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Batter becomes upset and shows dissatisfaction through verbal abuse

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Tension-building stage

84
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Physical abuse occurs

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Acute battering incident stage

85
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Batterer expresses remorse

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Loving contrition stage

86
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Must redefine themselves in ways that do not relate to work roles

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Redefinition of self versus preoccupation with work role

87
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Learn to cope with and move beyond physical changes

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Body transcendence versus body preoccupation

88
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Come to grips with coming death

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Ego transcendence versus ego preoccupation

89
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Medical problems caused by the interaction of psychological, emotional, and physical difficulties

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Psychosomatic disorders

90
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The tendency to marry someone who is similar in age, race, and other basic demographic characteristics

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Homogamy

91
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True or false - couples who cohabit before they are engaged to be married are more prone to divore

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TRUE

92
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True or false - arrival of a baby is associated with significant marital strain

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FALSE

93
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Drives people to obtain tangible rewards

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Extrinsic motivation

94
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Causes people to work for their own enjoyment

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Intrinsic motivation

95
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The silent killer

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Hypertension

96
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Which type of personality associated with heart disease?

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Type A

97
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Recollections of personal events or episodes

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Episodic memories

98
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Represent memory for general knowledge

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Semantic memories

99
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Young adults who return to live in the homes of their parents

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Boomerang children

100
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A

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