Human Development Test 5

Front 1

Middle Age

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no determined begining or end
no biological or social markers of it
US middle age is a state of mind

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Middle Age is a period of declining _____ and increasing ______.

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physical Skill; responsibiltiy

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What do most younger middle-adults see their lives as.

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Needing improvement

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What do most olde middle-adults think about their lives.

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They are satisfied with most areas of their lives, social financial and health.

Front 5

Most people up until age 75, aging is a _____ experience.

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Positive.

Front 6

People who are active early in life

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reatp the benefits later in life

Front 7

How does Endurance change in Middle Adulthood?

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Decrese in Basal Metabilism

Front 8

What are physical changes that occur in middle adulthood?

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Decrease in Basal Metablism, skin becomes taut and smooth, hair becomes thinner, fait gain in torso

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Where does fat spread in middle aged men?

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Upper adomen, back

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Where does fat spread in middle aged women?

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Waist and upper arms

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How can fat gain be avoided in Middle age?

Back 11

Eating and exercise

Front 12

What are the changes that happen in the eye of a middleaged person?

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Changes in puipl letting in more light, less flexible lens, sensitivity to light, speed of processing, loss of visual acuity

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What does Presbyopia mean?

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far-sighted

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What does Myopia mean?

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near-sighted

Front 15

Is hearing loss gradual or fast coming?

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gradual

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What age does hearing loss start to speed up?

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In their fifties

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What happens with sleep in the beginnig 40s

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wakeful periods are more frequent, less of deepest sleep.

Front 18

In Middle age sleep problems are more common in...

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Those who use higher number of prescription and nonperscription medication. Obese. Depressed. Cardiovascular disease.

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What is Menopause?

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When a woman permanetly stops ovulationg and menstruating. The woman would not longer be able to concieve.

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What is the average age for Menopause?

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52

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What is Perimenopause?

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3-5 years slowing process before menopause

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What begins to slow down in woman beginning in mid 30s?

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Estrogen and ova produciton

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What are womens attitude toward Menopause?

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In the US, women view it positively, express relief, and see it as indepences and growth.

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How many women experience little discomfrot in menopause?

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Little discomfort

Front 25

What is the most common of menopause and how many women actually experience it?

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hot flashes and only half

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What are other symptoms of menopause?

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vaginal dryness, buring, itching; Sexual appetite remains.

Front 27

What can calcium depletion result in?

Back 27

loss of height and "Hunchback"

Front 28

What racial group is less likely to develop osteoporosis?

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African American women

Front 29

How can you slow down osteoporis?

Back 29

Proper nutrition, exercise, avoidance of smoking

Front 30

Is there a Male menopuase>

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No evidence to support

Front 31

What begins to decrease in Male Sexuality?

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Testosterone, slowly

Front 32

What percent per year does testosterone decrease in men after 30s?

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about 1%

Front 33

Are there any strong relationship between testosterone levels and sexual performance?

Back 33

No

Front 34

What is a possible side effect of Testosterone decrease?

Back 34

Possible erectile dysfunciton.

Front 35

What percent of people in middle age report their health as good or excellent?

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80%

Front 36

What kinds of chronic conditions do middle age people start to develop?

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arthritis and circulatory conditions.

Front 37

How does stress affect?

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Not what happend, but how you take it.

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What does Allostasis mean?

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ability to adapt to stress

Front 39

Allostic Load is

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damage that occurs when coping abilites are inadequate

Front 40

What are side effects of expressed hostility?

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Cardiovascular problems, health complaints, depression, unhealthy behaviors.

Front 41

How can Hypertension be controlled?

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Blood-pressure screening, low-salt diets, medication

Front 42

What is the leading cause of death between ages 45 to 64?

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Heart Disease

Front 43

Diabetes has doubled since?

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1990s

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One-third of midlife deaths in the us is?

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cancer

Front 45

what do oncogenes do

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convert normal to cancer cells

Front 46

what do tumor suppressor genes do?

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Block development of cancer

Front 47

Can cancer be often curable?

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when detected early

Front 48

What is the double standard of aging

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That because of media and social messages men see aging positively while women view aging negatively.

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Does Double Standard of Aging appear to be declining

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yes, positive models are replacing old ideas

Front 50

What does Fluid Intelligence depend on?

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Basic information-processing Skills

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What is Fluid intelligence responsible for?

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detecting relationships among stimuli, analytical speed, and working memory

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What skills doe crystallized intelligence depend on:

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accumulated knowledge, experience, good judgment, mastery of social conventions.

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Memory in Middle Adulthood has few changes in:

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Factual knowledge, and procedural knowledge, and metacognitive knowledge

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What memory in middle adulthood declines?

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Working Memory

Front 55

What does the decline in middle adulthood working meomry mean?

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less memory strategies, may be slower processing, and attention problems.

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What do Mature Adults show in their fields.

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they show increasing competence in solving problems in their feild.

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Changes in creativity peak in?

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late 30s

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Changes in creativity become

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less spontaneous intensely emotional

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What is Generativity?

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building the next generation, commitment beyond self, often realized through child rearing, other family can also do this.

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What is Stagnation?

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Placing own comfort above challange and sacrifice, self-absorbed, lack of involvement or concern with young people, little intrest in work productivity.

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BOOM

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Becoming One's Own Man phase

Front 62

Women outlive males on an average of

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5 years

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Genetic-Programing Theories

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genes switch off

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Variable Rate Theories

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wear and tear

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If we live to old age we will develop

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wrinkles and age spots, loss of height and weight, and slower movements

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In Late Adulthood what percentage of adults report good general health?

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73%

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Even though Late Adulthood patients report good health they typicaly have?

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2-3 chronic health conditions and 5 perscriptions

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ADL

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Activities of Daily Living

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What are some ADL

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Dressing bathing, toileting, getting around the house, getting in and out of bed, grooming, and meals

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IADLs

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Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

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What are some IADLs

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Going shoping alone, using phone, taking meds, heavy housework and laundry, getting around town.

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Functional activites are?

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walking, climing stairs, reaching, grasping, lifting and carrying.

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What cognitve functions decline in late life?

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tasks that require elabortaion; names and faces recording new informtion

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What cognitive functions remain stable in late life?

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Task requiring procedural memroy, ability to sove a problem or answer questions

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What cognitive functions can improve in late life?

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semeantic memory: vocab and knowledge

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What is the age for defining early or later onset of alzheimers

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65

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Final stage of life Span?

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Ego Integrity vs. Despair

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Disengagement Thoery?

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Mutual withdrawl of old persona and society

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Activity Theory

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Activity linked with life satisfation

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Continuity Thoery

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Need to maintain a connection between past and presnt

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Selective optimization with compensation

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positive and creative coping strategies to deal with their limitations.

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order of stages of death

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denial, anger, bargining, depression, and acceptance

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Infants and death

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no cognitive understanding, separation anxiety

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Early childhood and death

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death is temporary, magical explanations or blaming self, need to speak in concrete terms

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Middle childhood and death

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Death is final and irreversible, won't happen to them, anger towards those responsible, internalization, need to be includen in funerals

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Late childhood and death

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final, irreversible, and univeral, morbid curiosity of death

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Adolescents and death

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able to thnk abstractly about death, intreted in existential meaning of death, may feel no one understans their loss, may engage in high risk behavior to confron own mortality.

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At all ages what is successful grieving linked with?

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at least 1 sgnigicant adult present and a safe and emotionally supportive environment.