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Middle Adulthood |
Developmental period beginning at about 40 to 60-65. A time of declining physical skills and expanding responsibility. Balancing of work and relationship responsibilities in the midst of physical/psychological changes bc of aging. |
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Climacteric |
Midlife transition in which fertility declines. |
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Menopause |
Complete cessation of a womans menatrual cycles. Usually occurs in late forties/fifties |
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Sarcopenia |
Age related loss of muscle mass and strength |
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More likely to be caused by combined effects of several chronic conditions. Cancer, then cardiovascular disease. |
Main cause of death? |
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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) |
Augments declining levels of reproductive hormone production by the ovaries.
Benefits outweight the risks. Regular exercise, dietary supplements, herbal remedies, relaxation therapy, acupuncture, nonsteroidal medication |
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Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) |
Can improve sexual functioning, muscle strength, bone health. |
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Male hypogonadism |
Describes condition in which body does not produce enough testosterone |
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Erectile dysfunction (ED) |
Difficulty maintaining/attaining an erection. Present in about 50% of men 40-70 |
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Crystallized intelligence (Horn) |
Accumulated info and verbal skills that increase in middle age Has been solidified into long term memory |
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Fluid Intelligence (Horn) |
Ability to reason abstractly, steadily declines for middle adulthood on.
Why does is decline?
Stress, lack of sleep, trauma, drugs(illegal/perscription)/alchohol, chemotherapy |
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Verbal comprehension |
Ability to understand ideas expressed in words |
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Verbal memory |
Ability to encode/recall meaningful language units, like a list of words Increases throughout bc its semantic in nature. Long term |
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Numeric ability |
Ability to perform simple math computations like addition, subtraction, multiplication. |
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Spatial orientation |
Ability to visualize and mentally rotate stimuli in two and 3 dimensional space |
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Inductive reasoning |
Ability to recognize and understand patterns and relationships in a problem and use this understanding to solve other instances of the problem |
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Perceptual speed |
Ability to quickly and accurately make simple discriminations in visual stimuli |
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Cohort effects |
Differences across generations |
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Declines |
Speed of info processing |
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Working memory |
Decline in memory in middle to late adulthood is attributed to a limited capacity of this. Max capacity is 7+-2. Probably becomes less than this |
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Expertise |
Cuz it takes so long to attain this, it shows up more in middle adulthood than early adulthood.
Extensive, highly organized knowledge and understanding of a subject.
Rely on accumulated exp, devise better strategies and shortcuts, and be more creative/flexible in solving problems. |
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Globalization |
Work has been outsourced, jobs dont exist to united states. On top of this, people from outside come to U.S and work for cheaper |
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Spirituality Freedom Responsibility |
Frankl meaning of life
Distinct human qualities |
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Midlife |
Serious accident, loss or illness may be a wakeup call thay produces a major restructuring of time and a reassessments of lifes priorities |
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Late midlife |
55-65
More likely characterized by death of a parent, last child leaving the home, becoming grandparent, preparing for retirement and actual retirement. |
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Age identity |
Which age group do you belong and how old do you feel? Older adults get, their age identity is younger than their chronological age |