Chapter 13: Physical And Cognitive Development In Middle Adulthood

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Middle Adulthood

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Developmental period beginning at about 40 to 60-65.

A time of declining physical skills and expanding responsibility.

Balancing of work and relationship responsibilities in the midst of physical/psychological changes bc of aging.

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Climacteric

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Midlife transition in which fertility declines.

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Menopause

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Complete cessation of a womans menatrual cycles. Usually occurs in late forties/fifties

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Sarcopenia

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Age related loss of muscle mass and strength

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More likely to be caused by combined effects of several chronic conditions.

Cancer, then cardiovascular disease.

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Main cause of death?

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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)

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Augments declining levels of reproductive hormone production by the ovaries.

Benefits outweight the risks. Regular exercise, dietary supplements, herbal remedies, relaxation therapy, acupuncture, nonsteroidal medication

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Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT)

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Can improve sexual functioning, muscle strength, bone health.

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Male hypogonadism

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Describes condition in which body does not produce enough testosterone

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Erectile dysfunction (ED)

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Difficulty maintaining/attaining an erection.

Present in about 50% of men 40-70

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Crystallized intelligence (Horn)

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Accumulated info and verbal skills that increase in middle age

Has been solidified into long term memory

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Fluid Intelligence (Horn)

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Ability to reason abstractly, steadily declines for middle adulthood on.

Why does is decline?

Stress, lack of sleep, trauma, drugs(illegal/perscription)/alchohol, chemotherapy

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Verbal comprehension

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Ability to understand ideas expressed in words

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Verbal memory

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Ability to encode/recall meaningful language units, like a list of words

Increases throughout bc its semantic in nature. Long term

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Numeric ability

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Ability to perform simple math computations like addition, subtraction, multiplication.

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Spatial orientation

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Ability to visualize and mentally rotate stimuli in two and 3 dimensional space

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Inductive reasoning

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Ability to recognize and understand patterns and relationships in a problem and use this understanding to solve other instances of the problem

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Perceptual speed

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Ability to quickly and accurately make simple discriminations in visual stimuli

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Cohort effects

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Differences across generations

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Declines

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Speed of info processing

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Working memory

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Decline in memory in middle to late adulthood is attributed to a limited capacity of this.

Max capacity is 7+-2. Probably becomes less than this

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Expertise

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Cuz it takes so long to attain this, it

shows up more in middle adulthood than early adulthood.

Extensive, highly organized knowledge and understanding of a subject.

Rely on accumulated exp, devise better strategies and shortcuts, and be more creative/flexible in solving problems.

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Globalization

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Work has been outsourced, jobs dont exist to united states.

On top of this, people from outside come to U.S and work for cheaper

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Spirituality

Freedom

Responsibility

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Frankl meaning of life

Distinct human qualities

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Midlife

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Serious accident, loss or illness may be a wakeup call thay produces a major restructuring of time and a reassessments of lifes priorities

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Late midlife

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55-65

More likely characterized by death of a parent, last child leaving the home, becoming grandparent, preparing for retirement and actual retirement.

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Age identity

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Which age group do you belong and how old do you feel?

Older adults get, their age identity is younger than their chronological age