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51 Cards in this Set
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What are the two age groups that incur the most fear?
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middle age
older years |
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What is the dialectic of Erikson for these years?
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Generativity vs Stagnation
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What is generativity/
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concern for producing and guiding the next generation but also other creativity
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What is stagnation?
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never moved along in life
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What happens when you get generativity failure?
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stagnant and unproductive
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When does menopause occur?
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age 40 to 50
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What hormonally happens with menoapuse?
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EStrogen produced by ovaries drop
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What happens in menopuse?
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overproduction of estrogen: tender breasts, fliud retention, bloated abdomen, brain cell swelling, fatigue and irratability
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What is the menopause technically?
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12 consecutive months wihtout period?
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What is the post menopauseal phase?
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vaginal shrinkage, atrophy, dryness, lax bladder,, stress incontinence, osteoporosis
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What happens to womens sex drive after menopause?
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effects of androgen, increased sex drive
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Do men have a menopause like thing what is it called?
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climateric
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What causes climateric?
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decrease in sperm production, less motility, begining hypertrophy of prostate
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What happens to testosterone levels during age?
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stay constant
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What are psychosocial changes that happen to women?
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women have to readjust self definition after kids leave home
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What happens to women and her husband after kids leave?
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she and her husband have to reacquaint themselves with each other
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WHat happens with men?
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forced to accept a number of things he always dreamed he could have changed and settling and acceptance
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What happens with mens competitiveness?
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setlling down and making sure that family is ok
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Family LIfe cycle what phase is that?
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post parental phase
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What was the results of the longitudinal study of men and success?
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mens relative success or happiness in mid life was independent of social class or origin
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what was the major result of the longitudinal study
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people go through stages of life
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What is long term memory?
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retention of information over long periods of time?
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Where is long term memory in the brain?
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hippocampus
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What is working/short term memory?
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maintains and allows mainpualation of immediately available information
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Wher is the working memory?
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basal ganglia and frontal lobe
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What is the process of getting stuff from short term to long term memory?
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long term potentiation
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What is declarative memory
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form of long term memory used to relate diverse information that is used flexible and availble for awarness and verbal report
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Where is declarative memory for?
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facts and concepts
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Where is delcarative meory
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hippocampus and enterhinal cortex
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What is non declarative memory
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skillsna dpriming that are less flexible and relational and can operate outside wawareness
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What is exectuive function
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cognitive processes that support strategic organization and control other process that are important to complex goal oriented tasks
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What is the process of evolutionary process to make brian work at older ages?
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people did not live past them
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What are the brain volume peak?
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early 20s
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When do changes in ability to remember start?
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40s
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Why does it happens?
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shrinkage in nueronal size and extensiveness of connections
lower blood flow and less efficient recruiting |
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What are neurofibrillary tangles
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decayed portions of dendrites, increases with age
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What is senile plagues
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clusters of damaged nuerons
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Where does blood flow drop the most?
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frontal cortex
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What is harder (3)
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decline in verbal fluency
work harder at exectuve function - planning/organizing |
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Why do the decline in verbal frequency etc occur?
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changes in parietal cortex
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What is order of memory decline?
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1) episodic memory
2) flashbulb memory 3) semantic 4) procedural |
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What is flashbulb memory?
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where were you at this time?
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What kind of meories decline last?
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semantic and procedural
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What is the problem with memory storage?
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No its not storage, its changes in how the brain deals with information
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What is implicit memory?
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leanring without conscious effort
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What is the effect of age with implicit memory?
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seems to be spared in old age
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Is there objective evidence for mental exercise help?
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not really but it could not hurt
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What is the effect of stress on memory?
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little amounts it can improve memory and keep emotions visit
but in larger amounts it dmanages neurons in hippocampus |
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How does education effect aging?
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cognitive challenges create new neurons
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How does weight effect aging?
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lower weight may be protective
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How does exercise effect aging?
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dd
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