Final Psych Exam

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V02 Max

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Ability to use oxygen efficiently

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Middle Adulthood - Immune System

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Weakens during this stage. B & T cells decrease

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (most at risk)

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Young adults. 20 - 29 most at risk

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Primary Aging

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Age related changes biological. Universally shared.

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Secondary Aging

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Age related changes from social, environmental influences. Poor health habits or disease

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Limbic System

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Brain part that regulates emotional responses

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Antisocial Personality

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Sociopath or psychopath. Lack of empathy.

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Histrionic Personality

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Overly emotional or dramatic

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Borderline Personality

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Does not have disorder, but is overly clingy and needy

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Locus of Control

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Set of beliefs about the causes of events

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Personality Disorder

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Inflexible pattern of behaviour

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Relativism

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Some things cannot be described as true or false. (Everything isn't black or white)

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Dialectical Thought

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Recognition and acceptance of paradox and uncertainty

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Reflective Judgement

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Identify underlying assumptions of differing views of co controversial issues

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Crystallized Intelligence

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Knowledge and judgement acquired through education and experience

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Intimacy

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Ability to form and sustain affectionate, supporting relationship

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Parental Investment Theory

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Parent who put most effort into raising child will be basis for mate that child chooses

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Social Role Theory

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Preferences in mating behaviour are adaptions to gender roles

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Homogony (Assortive Mating)

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Similarity of partners is primary consideration

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Emerging Adulthood

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Late teens to early 20s. Exploring options before commiting to adult roles

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Living Apart Together

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Intimate partners who do not live together

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Kin Keeper

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Family role (usually women). Responsible for maintaining family and friend relationships

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Women Adult Friendships

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Defined by self disclosure and emotional support

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Men Adult Friendships

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Childlike friendship. Friends are people you do stuff with

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Career Development

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Process of adapting to workplace and pursuing goals throughout employment

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Climacteric

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Decrease in ability to sexually reproduce

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Osteoporosis

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Causes bones to become brittle and porous. Affects women more. Calcium helps prevent

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Presbyopia

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Normal loss of visual acuity with aging. Inability to focus eyes on close objects

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Presbycusis

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Normal hearing loss with age. Especially high frequency tones

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Atherosclerosis

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Clogging of arteries by plaque. Caused by inactivity and high cholesterol. Can be avoided

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Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

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Set of disease processes in heart and circulatory systems

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Selective Optimization with Compensation

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Process of balancing gains and losses associated with aging

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Episodic Memories

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Recollections of personal events

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Flashbulb Memories

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Extremely significant events

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Semantic Memories

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Recollections of general facts, knowledge, or word meanings

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Middle Adulthood - Cognitive Function

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Use it or lose it. Unexercized mental skills fade more quickly

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Middle Adulthood - Physical Exercise

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Leads to lower mortality. Improves cognitive function at all ages

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Middle Age - Creativity

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Peake in 40's. Ability to produce original ideas or solutions to problems.

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Generativity

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Sense that you are making a valuable contribution to society by raising children.

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Stagnation

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People not prepared to no longer be central player in life. Focus remains on self, leads to frustration with life.

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Fluid Intelligence

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Aspect of intelligence that does not depend on experience, just biological

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Mid Life Crisis

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Research says there is little or no crisis. No more stressful than any other period in life

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Role Conflict

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Requirements of roles contradict eachother.(role of retiree or role of caregiver)

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Multigenerational Caregivers

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Middle age adults. Caring for both elderly parents and young adult kids.

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Caregiver Burden

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Negative effects of caring for an elderly or disabled person

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Middle Age - Marriage

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Marital stability increases. Getting good at being married.

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Involuntary Career Changes

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Due to external reasons. More stressful

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Voluntary Career Changes

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Choose to pursue different career or options

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Retirement

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15 years advance preparation. Discuss options, reduce workload, calculate incomes

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Boomerang Children

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Leave home and then return. (Financial difficulty, low employment levels)

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Gerontology

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Study of aging

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Middle Age - Friendship

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Number of friends drop. Remaining friends interact less, but still close. Less need for social support.

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Burnout

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Exhaustion, pessimism that results from chronic stress

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Senescence

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Physical changes and declines associated with aging

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Telomere

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String of repetitive DNA at tip of chromosomes that serve as timekeeping mechanism

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Telomerase

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Enzyme that some cells use to restore ends to chromosomes

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Cross Linking

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Formation of undesirable bonds between proteins or fats

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Free Radicals

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Molecules or atoms that possess an unpaired electron

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Stem Cells

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Cells capable of self renewal. Can split themselves unlimited times

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Functional Status

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Measure of persons ability to perform certain roles and tasks in daily living

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Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

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Self help tasks. Bathing, dressing, using the toilet

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Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs)

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Complex daily tasks. Housework, cooking.

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Synaptic Plasticity

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Redundancy in nervous system. Ensures it's always possible for nerve impulse to move from one neuron to another

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Tinnitus

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Consistent ringing in ear

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Cataracts

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Eye lenses becoming opaque

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Incidence Glaucoma

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Pressure build up on eyes. Leads to tunnel vision and blindness

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Satiety

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Feeling of fullness following a meal

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Terminal Drop

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Final years of life. May be sudden decrease in functional deficits

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Dementia

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Neurological disorder involving memory and thinking. Affects emotions, social, physical function

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Multi Infarct Dementia

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Form of dementia caused by one or more strokes.

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Geriatric Dysthymia

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Chronic depressed mood in older adults

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Prospective Memory

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Ability to plan and act. Paying rent and remember to follow through. Increases with age

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Ego Integrity

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Feeling your life has been worthwhile

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Reminiscence

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Reflecting on past experience

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Life Review

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Evaluation process. Elders make judgements about past behaviours

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Activity Theory

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Idea that it's normal and healthy for elders to stay active as possible as long as they can.

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Disengagement Theory

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Idea that is normal and healthy for elders to scale down social lives, separate from others to certain degree

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Continuity Theory

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Idea that elders adapt lifelong interests to limitations imposed on them from aging

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Religious Coping

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Tendency to turn to religion on times of turmoil or stress

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Negative Coping

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When you abandon religion become bitter and blaming when dealing with hard times

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Successful Aging

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Maintain ones physical, mental health, social competence and overall satisfaction with life as you age

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Amenity Move

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Postretirement move away from kin location that is desirabl, maybe is warm all year

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Compensatory (kinship) Move

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Move near family or friends when elder needs a lot of help because of disability or disease

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Institutional Migration

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Move to institution, such as nursing home because of disability

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Clinical Death

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Vital signs are absent. Resuscitation is still possible

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Brain Death

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Absence of vital signs. No brain activity. Resuscitation not possible.

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Social Death

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Point where family, and medical persons treat deceased person as corpse.

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Hospice Care

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Holistic approach to care for terminally ill that emphasizes individual and family control of dying process

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Palliative Care

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Care that seeks to prevent relieve and soothe patients symptoms rather than cure diseases

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Unique Invulnerability

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Belief that bad thkngs, including death, only happen to other people

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Terminal Decline

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Individuals decline in mental functioning increases in few years before death

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Thanatology

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Scientific study of death and dying

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Pathological Grief

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Symptoms of depression brought on by death of a loved one

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Passive Euthanasia

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Hasten death by not using life support systems that would prolong life

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Active Euthanasia

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Hastens death actively by giving lethal dose of drug

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Living Will Directives

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Specify life support should not be used in case of clinical or near death

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Assisted Suicide

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Illegal in Canada. Legal in a few places. Okay in Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium

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Motherhood Earnings Gap

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How much earnings of women with children are below women without children

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Cancer

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Second leading cause of death in middle age. Mostly caused secondary aging. Most risks can be avoided. (Smoking, bad diet, inactivity)

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Type A Personality Pattern

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Associated with greater risk of heart disease. Includes competitiveness , sense of urgency, sometimes aggressive

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Wisdom

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Hypothetical cognitive characteristic of older adults that includes accumulated knowledge and ability to apply it to practical problems

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Hayflick Limit

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Theory. All species subject to geneticay programmed time limit. After which cells cannot replicate accurately.