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102 Cards in this Set
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V02 Max |
Ability to use oxygen efficiently |
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Middle Adulthood - Immune System |
Weakens during this stage. B & T cells decrease |
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (most at risk) |
Young adults. 20 - 29 most at risk |
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Primary Aging |
Age related changes biological. Universally shared. |
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Secondary Aging |
Age related changes from social, environmental influences. Poor health habits or disease |
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Limbic System |
Brain part that regulates emotional responses |
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Antisocial Personality |
Sociopath or psychopath. Lack of empathy. |
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Histrionic Personality |
Overly emotional or dramatic |
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Borderline Personality |
Does not have disorder, but is overly clingy and needy |
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Locus of Control |
Set of beliefs about the causes of events |
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Personality Disorder |
Inflexible pattern of behaviour |
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Relativism |
Some things cannot be described as true or false. (Everything isn't black or white) |
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Dialectical Thought |
Recognition and acceptance of paradox and uncertainty |
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Reflective Judgement |
Identify underlying assumptions of differing views of co controversial issues |
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Crystallized Intelligence |
Knowledge and judgement acquired through education and experience |
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Intimacy |
Ability to form and sustain affectionate, supporting relationship |
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Parental Investment Theory |
Parent who put most effort into raising child will be basis for mate that child chooses |
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Social Role Theory |
Preferences in mating behaviour are adaptions to gender roles |
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Homogony (Assortive Mating) |
Similarity of partners is primary consideration |
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Emerging Adulthood |
Late teens to early 20s. Exploring options before commiting to adult roles |
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Living Apart Together |
Intimate partners who do not live together |
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Kin Keeper |
Family role (usually women). Responsible for maintaining family and friend relationships |
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Women Adult Friendships |
Defined by self disclosure and emotional support |
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Men Adult Friendships |
Childlike friendship. Friends are people you do stuff with |
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Career Development |
Process of adapting to workplace and pursuing goals throughout employment |
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Climacteric |
Decrease in ability to sexually reproduce |
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Osteoporosis |
Causes bones to become brittle and porous. Affects women more. Calcium helps prevent |
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Presbyopia |
Normal loss of visual acuity with aging. Inability to focus eyes on close objects |
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Presbycusis |
Normal hearing loss with age. Especially high frequency tones |
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Atherosclerosis |
Clogging of arteries by plaque. Caused by inactivity and high cholesterol. Can be avoided |
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Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) |
Set of disease processes in heart and circulatory systems |
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Selective Optimization with Compensation |
Process of balancing gains and losses associated with aging |
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Episodic Memories |
Recollections of personal events |
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Flashbulb Memories |
Extremely significant events |
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Semantic Memories |
Recollections of general facts, knowledge, or word meanings |
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Middle Adulthood - Cognitive Function |
Use it or lose it. Unexercized mental skills fade more quickly |
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Middle Adulthood - Physical Exercise |
Leads to lower mortality. Improves cognitive function at all ages |
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Middle Age - Creativity |
Peake in 40's. Ability to produce original ideas or solutions to problems. |
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Generativity |
Sense that you are making a valuable contribution to society by raising children. |
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Stagnation |
People not prepared to no longer be central player in life. Focus remains on self, leads to frustration with life. |
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Fluid Intelligence |
Aspect of intelligence that does not depend on experience, just biological |
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Mid Life Crisis |
Research says there is little or no crisis. No more stressful than any other period in life |
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Role Conflict |
Requirements of roles contradict eachother.(role of retiree or role of caregiver) |
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Multigenerational Caregivers |
Middle age adults. Caring for both elderly parents and young adult kids. |
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Caregiver Burden |
Negative effects of caring for an elderly or disabled person |
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Middle Age - Marriage |
Marital stability increases. Getting good at being married. |
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Involuntary Career Changes |
Due to external reasons. More stressful |
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Voluntary Career Changes |
Choose to pursue different career or options |
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Retirement |
15 years advance preparation. Discuss options, reduce workload, calculate incomes |
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Boomerang Children |
Leave home and then return. (Financial difficulty, low employment levels) |
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Gerontology |
Study of aging |
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Middle Age - Friendship |
Number of friends drop. Remaining friends interact less, but still close. Less need for social support. |
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Burnout |
Exhaustion, pessimism that results from chronic stress |
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Senescence |
Physical changes and declines associated with aging |
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Telomere |
String of repetitive DNA at tip of chromosomes that serve as timekeeping mechanism |
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Telomerase |
Enzyme that some cells use to restore ends to chromosomes |
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Cross Linking |
Formation of undesirable bonds between proteins or fats |
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Free Radicals |
Molecules or atoms that possess an unpaired electron |
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Stem Cells |
Cells capable of self renewal. Can split themselves unlimited times |
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Functional Status |
Measure of persons ability to perform certain roles and tasks in daily living |
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Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) |
Self help tasks. Bathing, dressing, using the toilet |
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Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) |
Complex daily tasks. Housework, cooking. |
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Synaptic Plasticity |
Redundancy in nervous system. Ensures it's always possible for nerve impulse to move from one neuron to another |
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Tinnitus |
Consistent ringing in ear |
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Cataracts |
Eye lenses becoming opaque |
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Incidence Glaucoma |
Pressure build up on eyes. Leads to tunnel vision and blindness |
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Satiety |
Feeling of fullness following a meal |
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Terminal Drop |
Final years of life. May be sudden decrease in functional deficits |
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Dementia |
Neurological disorder involving memory and thinking. Affects emotions, social, physical function |
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Multi Infarct Dementia |
Form of dementia caused by one or more strokes. |
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Geriatric Dysthymia |
Chronic depressed mood in older adults |
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Prospective Memory |
Ability to plan and act. Paying rent and remember to follow through. Increases with age |
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Ego Integrity |
Feeling your life has been worthwhile |
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Reminiscence |
Reflecting on past experience |
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Life Review |
Evaluation process. Elders make judgements about past behaviours |
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Activity Theory |
Idea that it's normal and healthy for elders to stay active as possible as long as they can. |
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Disengagement Theory |
Idea that is normal and healthy for elders to scale down social lives, separate from others to certain degree |
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Continuity Theory |
Idea that elders adapt lifelong interests to limitations imposed on them from aging |
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Religious Coping |
Tendency to turn to religion on times of turmoil or stress |
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Negative Coping |
When you abandon religion become bitter and blaming when dealing with hard times |
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Successful Aging |
Maintain ones physical, mental health, social competence and overall satisfaction with life as you age |
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Amenity Move |
Postretirement move away from kin location that is desirabl, maybe is warm all year |
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Compensatory (kinship) Move |
Move near family or friends when elder needs a lot of help because of disability or disease |
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Institutional Migration |
Move to institution, such as nursing home because of disability |
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Clinical Death |
Vital signs are absent. Resuscitation is still possible |
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Brain Death |
Absence of vital signs. No brain activity. Resuscitation not possible. |
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Social Death |
Point where family, and medical persons treat deceased person as corpse. |
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Hospice Care |
Holistic approach to care for terminally ill that emphasizes individual and family control of dying process |
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Palliative Care |
Care that seeks to prevent relieve and soothe patients symptoms rather than cure diseases |
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Unique Invulnerability |
Belief that bad thkngs, including death, only happen to other people |
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Terminal Decline |
Individuals decline in mental functioning increases in few years before death |
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Thanatology |
Scientific study of death and dying |
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Pathological Grief |
Symptoms of depression brought on by death of a loved one |
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Passive Euthanasia |
Hasten death by not using life support systems that would prolong life |
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Active Euthanasia |
Hastens death actively by giving lethal dose of drug |
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Living Will Directives |
Specify life support should not be used in case of clinical or near death |
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Assisted Suicide |
Illegal in Canada. Legal in a few places. Okay in Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium |
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Motherhood Earnings Gap |
How much earnings of women with children are below women without children |
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Cancer |
Second leading cause of death in middle age. Mostly caused secondary aging. Most risks can be avoided. (Smoking, bad diet, inactivity) |
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Type A Personality Pattern |
Associated with greater risk of heart disease. Includes competitiveness , sense of urgency, sometimes aggressive |
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Wisdom |
Hypothetical cognitive characteristic of older adults that includes accumulated knowledge and ability to apply it to practical problems |
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Hayflick Limit |
Theory. All species subject to geneticay programmed time limit. After which cells cannot replicate accurately. |