Life Span Developmental Psychology: Chapter 8 Middle Adulthood

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Five basic clusters of personality traits that remain consistent throughout adulthood.

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big five

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Young adults who return home (after having been gone for some period) to live with the middle-aged parents.

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boomerang children

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The transition from being able to bear children to being unable to do so.

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climacteric

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Parents' feelings of unhappiness, worry, loneliness, and depression resulting from their children's departure from home.

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empty nest syndrome

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Refers to the acquisition of skills or knowledge in a specific area. This usually occurs in a focused area, e.g., an occupational specialty area.

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expertise

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People who accept and treat a person like a family member even though the people are neither biologically nor leagally related.

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fictive kin

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A tendency where men and women tend to become more similar as they move through middle age.

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gender convergence

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A situation in which each sex takes on the other sex's roles and traits in later life, i.e., women become more self-confident and men more emotional.

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gender crossover

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Erikson's middle adulthood stage in which people consider their contributions to family and society.

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generativity versus stagnation

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Physical and psychological change related to the male reproductive system that occurs during late middle age.

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male climacteric

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The cessation of menstruation.

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menopause

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A period of unusual anxiety and radical transformation that is commonly associated with middle age.

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midlife crisis

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Loss of the ability to hear sounds of high frequency.

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presbycusis

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A nearly universal change in eyesight that results in some loss of near vision.

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presbyopia

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Age-related changes that are an inevitable part of aging.

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Primary aging

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A term used to describe couples in middle adulthood who must fulfill the needs of both their children and their aging parents.

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sandwich generation

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Organized bodies of information stored in memory that help explain the way the world is organized, allow the categorization of information, and the interpretation of new information.

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schemas

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Age-related changes that take place as the result of a person's behavior or a society's failure to eliminate unhealthu conditions.

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secondary aging

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A process by which people concentrate on a particular skill area to compensate for losses in other areas.

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selective optimization

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A group of people who form relationships and socialize with an individual; it helps guide a person throughout life.

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social convoy

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A cognitive perspective that is characterized by a broad, practical, comprehensive approach to life's problems. It reflects timeless truths rather than immediate answers.

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wisdom

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What is the age period of middle adulthood?

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40-65 years of age

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At age 55, a ____ process occurs because the bones attached to the spinal column become less dense.

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"settling"

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A condition in which bones become brittle, fragile, and thin.

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osteoporosis

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Factors affecting hearing loss

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Sex, Genes,Age

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At what age do men and women start losing their hearing?

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30 (men); 50 (women)

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Five clusters of personality termed Big 5?

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Extroversion; Agreeableness; Conscientiousness; Neuroticism; Openness

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Three forms of grand parenthood?

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Remote; Involved; Companionate

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The generation in between, having both grown children and elderly parents. Feeling pressured by the needs and demands of their adult children and their elderly (ailing or widowed) parents

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the sandwich generation

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As part of primary aging, genes on our sex chromosomes interact with genes on other chromosomes in a way that causes?

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men's hearing to decline twice as fast as women's hearing

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Behavior patterns that are characterized by competitiveness, impatience, and a tendency toward frustration and hostility.

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type A

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Behavior patterns that are characterized by non-competitiveness, patience, and a lack of aggression.

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type B

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Second leading cause of death in the United States (after cardiovascular disease).

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cancer

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What are the 4 lifestyle habits that are central to affecting health?

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- smoking
- alcohol consumption
-overeating
-exercising

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Current research indicates that memory decline during middle adulthood is most often due to:

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ineffective strategies of storage and retrieval

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What are the three types of memory?

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-sensory memory
-short-term memory
-long-term memory

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An initial, momentary storage of information that last only an instant.

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sensory memory

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Memory that moves from sensory into short-term, where it is held for fifteen to twenty-five seconds.

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short-term memory

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memory is stored on a relatively permanent basis.

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long-term memory

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The two types of intelligence.

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fluid and crystallized

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information processing capabilities, memory, reasoning skills, and arranging a set of numbers according to a certain set of rules or memorizing a specific type of information.

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fluid intelligence

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accumulation of information, skills, strategies that people have learned through experience that they can apply to problem-solving situations, and solving a crossword puzzle.

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crystallized intelligence

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Five basic personality traits that remain consistent throughout an adult person's life. The "big five".

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-neuroticism
-extroversion
-openness
-agreeableness
-conscientiousness

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anxious, moody, self-punishing, critical

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neuroticism

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outgoing, assertive, active

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extroversion

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imaginative, curious, artistic, open to new experiences

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openness

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kind, helpful, easy-going, generous

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agreeableness

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organized, deliberate, conforming, self-disciplined

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conscientiousness

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refers to couples who must fulfill the needs of both their children and their aging parents.

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sandwich generation

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The three types of grandparent- grandchild relationships.

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-remote
-involved
-companionate

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Grandparents who are distant, but who are loved, honored, and obeyed by the grandchildren.

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remote

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Grandparents who see their grandchildren daily and are actively involved in their lives.

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involved

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grandparents whose relationship with their grandchildren is characterized by independence and friendship, with visits occurring by grandparent's choice.

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companionate