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Analytic Intelligence |
Intelligence that involves abstract planning, strategy selection, focused attention and information processing, with verbal and logical skills |
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Crystalized Intelligence |
Reflects accumulated learning, like vocab and common sense. crystalized intel increases with age while fluid declines |
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Creative Intelligence |
The capability to be flexible and innovative |
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Automatic processing |
Processes known task automatically, saving conscious thought for unfamiliar challenges |
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Selective Optimization with compensation |
Developed by Paul and Margre Baltes, People try to gain balance in lives by compensating for their physical losses by refining something they're good at. |
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Practical intelligence |
Skill used in every day problem solving. |
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andropause |
male Menopause, signifying the loss of testosterone in older male. resulting in reduced sexual desire, erections and muscle mass. |
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HRT (hormone replacement therapy) |
taking hormones in pills or patches to compensate hormone reduction. usually after meno or andropause |
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in vitro fertilization (IVF) |
making babies in a lab using fertilized cells |
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Menopause |
The middle age time. when the women's menstrual period cease productions of hormones drops. menopause is dated one year after the last period. |
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allostasis |
Dynamic body adjustment related to homeostasis, overtime affects overall physiology. Home response right away where allostasis takes time |
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Homeostasis |
the adjustment of all the body's system to keep functions of the body at a balance state. becomes harder as the body gets older. |
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organ reserve |
the extra capacity built in each organ, allows person to adjust to high demands or withstand organ strain |
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senescence |
the physical decline related to aging. Happens in all body part, varies from person to person |
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stressors |
situation event or experience or other stimulus that causes a person to feel stressed. varies between people |
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fluid intelligence |
basic intelligence that makes learning quick and thorough. examples: short term memory, abstract thought and speed of thiking |
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flynn effect |
the rise of average IQ that occurred over time in many nations |
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General intelligence |
common sense |
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Seattle longitudinal study |
the first study of adult intelligence began in 1956 most recent was 2005 |
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ageism |
where people are categorized and judged by age |
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Alzheimer |
caused by dementia, deterioration of memory and personality |
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compression of morbidity |
shortening of time a person spends sick, accomplished by postponing illness |
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Delirium |
temporary loss of memory, accompanied by hallucinations, terror, and irrational behavior |
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osteoporosis |
fragile bones that result from primary again. makes bone porous, especially genetically |
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dementia |
irreversible loss of intellectual functioning caused by brain damage or disease. |
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Lewy body dementia |
form of dementia characterized by the increase of lewy body cells in brain. symptoms visual hallucination, attention loss, falling and fainting. |
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control processes |
part of the information process system that regulates analysis and flow of information |
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ecological validity |
the idea that mental process should be measured in setting that is as realistic as possible. measuring abilities needed in real life. |
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demographic shift |
a shift in populations of various ages |
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Elderspeak |
disrespecting way of talking to older adult, resembles baby talk, simple short sentences, sarcastic, repetitive, and abnormal speech
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dependency ratio |
the number of self-sufficient, productive adults compared with the number of dependents, in a given population |
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old-old |
older adults,generally older than 75 who suffered from physical, mental or social deficits. |
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young-old |
healthy, financially secure older adults (60-75) who are well integrated in lives of family and immunity |
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calorie restriction |
the practice of limitations energy intake while taking supplements, for the purpose of slowing down aging process |
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cellular aging |
the ways which cells are affected by age. |
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genetic clock |
Mechanism in DNA of cells that regulates aging process by triggering hormonal changes and controlling cellular repair and reproductions |
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hay flick limit |
the number of times a human cell is capable of dividing into 2 new cells. the limit is about 50 |
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Oldest-old |
elderly adults older than 85 who are dependent on others for everything |
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Primary aging |
universal and irreversible physical changes that occur in all living creatures as they grow older
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average life expectancy |
the numbers of years the average newborn in a population is likely to live |
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fontal lobe dementia |
Deterioration of amygdala and frontal lobes that made be the cause of 15% of all dementia |
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life review |
examination of one's role in history of human life, engaged in and by many elderly people |
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vascular dementia (VAD) |
characterized by sporadic and progressive loss of intellectual functioning caused by obstruction of blood vessels, which prevent sufficient blood from reaching brain |
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parkinsons disease |
characterized by muscle tremor, rigidity and sometimes dementia, caused by reduced dopamine production in brain
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maximum life span |
the oldest possible age that members of a species can live under ideal circumstances. for human is 122 yers |
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mini-Mental state examination (MMSE) |
a test that is used to measure cognitive ability |
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polypharmacy |
refers to a situation in which elderlies are prescribed serveral medications. side affects includes dementia |
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self-actualization |
final stage in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, characterized by aesthetic, creative, philosophical and spiritual understanding |
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secondary aging |
the specific physical illness and conditions that become more common with aging but are caused by heath habits, genes and other influences |
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wear and tear |
view of aging process by which man body wears out because of the exposure to the environment and stressors
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activity theory |
a view that elderly wants and need to stay active with a variety of social spheres with relatives friends and community groups and become withdrawn only unwillingly. |
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activities of daily life (ADLs) |
identified as five tasks of self-care that are important to independent living: eating, bathing dressing and from a bed to a chair. the ability to not do this is a sign of faulty |
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Frail elderly |
People older than 65, often older than 85, who are physically inform very ill, cognitively disabled |
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compulsive hoarding |
the urge to hoard to familiar objects and possessions, sometimes becoming a health or hazard. increases with age |
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integrity versus despair |
final stage of Erikson's developmental sequence, which older adult seek to integrate unique experiences in their vision of community |
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self theories |
the search to maintain one's integrity or identiry |
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Positivity effect |
the tendency for elderly people to perceive, prefer, and remember positive images and experiences more than negative ones |
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assisted living |
living arrangement for elderly combines privacy and independence with medical supervision |
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age in place |
remaining in the same home and community in later life, adjusting but not leaving when health fades |
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instrumental activities of daily life (IADLs) |
actions that are important to independent living that require some intellectual competence and forethought. like paying bills. |
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AARP |
U.S organization of people that are 50 and older that advocates for the elderly. |
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disengagement theory |
the view that aging makes a person's social sphere increasingly narrow, resulting in withdrawal and passivity |
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filial responsibility |
the obligation of adult children to care for their aging parents |
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Naturally Occurring retirement community (NORC) |
a neighborhood or complex whose population is mostly retired people who moved as younger adults and never left/ |
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universal design |
designing physical space and common tools that are suitable for people of all ages and levels of ability |
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stratification theories |
limit individual choices and affect a person's ability to function in late adulthood. |
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Maslow's hierarchy of needs |
Self actualization (living to the highest potential), esteem(acquired the skills, using gifts.) , love and belonging (achieving meaningful deeper relationship), safety( comfort of home), physiological needs (food, water, sleep) |
