Developmental Psychology Exam 5

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Osteoperosis

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Condition that results from a loss of calcium and other minerals. Results in porous bones

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65-Year-Old changes in hair

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Grows thinner, goes gray, becomes coarser

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Change in Taste

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Decline in taste buds. 1/3 buds as young adult

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Sleep Apnea

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Person often stops breathing during sleep. Symptoms are snoring, gasping, and jumping up to breathe

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Older adults and learning

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General decline in cognitive function. "Use it or lose it"

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Senility

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Progressive mental deterioration, memory loss, and disorientation regarding time and place

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Multi-Infarcts

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little strokes.

destroys a small area of brain cells

often a precursor of a stroke

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James Fowler's Stages of Faith Development

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Stage 4:Personal Faith that can be reflected upon

Stage 5:Seeks truth of faith in dialect, multidimensional manner

Stage 6:Committed to selfless, universal goals

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Alzheimer's Disease

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Degenerative disorder involves deterioration of brain cells

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Stroke

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When a blood vessel is blocked or burst, a person experiences a stroke.

Brain cells without blood will die.

Know the signs

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Interference Theory

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retrieval of the cue becomes less effective as more and newer items come to be classed or categorized in terms of it

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Decay Theory

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Forgetting is due to deterioration of the memory traces in the brain

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Memory Failure

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Can happen at any point in information processing.

More likely to happen to geezers

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Retrieval Process

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Process in which information is regathered from memory when needed

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Storage Phase

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Process by which info is retained in memory until needed

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Encoding Phase

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Process by which info is put into the memory system

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Integrity Stage

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Looking back on life with satisfaction in having led a full life

Or be sad af

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Ego Differentiation

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Men and women must redefine their worth in terms of something other than work

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Body Preoccupation

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Being able to get past an aging body and enjoying life

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Ego Transcendence

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Having the belief that what you have created/accomplished will continue on after you pass

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Reorganizer Type of Integrated Individual

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A well-functioning old person that is capable of staying active and 'young'

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Armored-Defended Personality

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ambitious, achievement oriented individuals with high defenses against anxiety and with the need to retain tight control over events.

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Holder-On Type of Armored-Defended Individual

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view aging as a threat and relentlessly cling to the patterns of middle age as long as possible

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Apathetic Type of Passive-Dependent Individual

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disengaged from life, seem to "survive" but have medium to low levels of life satisfaction

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Unintegrated Personality Type

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Show gross defects in psychological functions and overall deterioration in their thought processes. Low life satisfaction

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Activity Theory of Aging

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The healthiest older people maintain fairly stable levels of activity

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Social Exchange Theory of Aging

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Maximize benefits, minimize costs

Aging individuals find themselves in a situation of increasing vulnerability because of deterioration in what they have to offer

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Modernization Theory of Aging

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Less industrialized countries value their elders more than more industrialized ones

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Elder Care

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Living at home alone

Assisted Living services

Live with Children

Adult day care

Institutional care

retirement communities

group homes

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Caregiver burnout

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Caregivers of elderly get frustrated and no longer can/want to caregive

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Retirement Communities

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community full of old people

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Adult Day Care

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Like daycare for kids, for adults!

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Retirement

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Leaving one's 'career' to engage in other paid activities, self-employment, or leaving the workforce completely

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"Healthy Dying"

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Ending one's life before a terminal illness does

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Suicide Ideas

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Observation or inference that someone might be moving in the direction of taking their life

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Hospice Care

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Provides comfortable care for dying people

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Brain Death

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No activity in the brain

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Persistent Vegetative State

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Functions of brain stem remain intact, but the person has lost higher functionability

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Palliative Care

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Attempt to relieve uncomfortable symptoms and is given along with treatment for the disease

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Life Review

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Reflect and reminisce over one's life

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Phases of Adult Bereavement

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1. Shock,numbness

2. Pining, yearning, depression

3. Moving on

4. Identity Reconstruction

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Death of a Child

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Deep depression, anger, guilt, despair

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Older Widowed Men in the US

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Tend to have the most difficult tie alone

Far less likely than women to receive help

Highest suicide rates

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Bereavement Associated with the Death of an Adult's Parents

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Important personal and symbolic event

Heightens their sense of mortality

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Suicide of a Loved One

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Pretty shitty

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Consequences of Grief for Survivors

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more vulnerable to mental and physical illness