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midlife transition in which fertility declines; brings an end to reproductive capacity in women and diminshed fertility in men
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climacteric
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intellectual skills that depend on accumulated knowledge and experience, good judgement, and mastery of social conventions - abilities acquired because they are valued by the individual's culture
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crystallized intelligence
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intellectual skills that largely depend on basic information-processing skills -- ability to detect relationships among visual stimuli, speed of analyzing information, and capactiy of working memory; laregely influenced by conditions in the brain and by learning unique to the individual
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fluid intelligence
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a disease in which poor fluid drainage leads to a buildup of pressure within the eye, damaging the optic nerve; a leading cause of blindness among older adults
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glaucoma
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a set of three personal qualities - control, commitment, and challenge - that help people cope with stress adaptively; thereby reducing its impact on illness and mortality
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hardiness
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low daily doses of estrogen, aimed at reducing the discomforts of menopause and protecting women from other impairments due to estrogen loss, such as bone deterioration; comes in two types: estrogen alone, or estrogen replacement therapy (ERT), for women who have had hysterectomies (surgical removal of the uterus), and estrogen plus progesterone, or hormone replacement therapy (HRT), for other women
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hormone therapy
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a view that attributes age-related slowing of cognitive processing to greater loss of information as it moves through the system; as a result, the whole system must slow down to inspect and interpret the information
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information-loss view
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the end of menstruation and, therefore, reproductive capacity in women; occurs, on average, in the early fifties among North American, European, and East Asian women, although the agee range is large - from the late thirties to the late fifties
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menopause
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a view that attributes age-related slowing of cognitive processing to breaks in neural networks as neaurons die; the brain forms bypasses - new synaptic connections that go around the breaks but are less efficient
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neural network view
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a severe version of age-related bone loss; porous bones are easily fractured and when very extreme, lead to a slumped-over posture, a shuffling gait, and a "dowager's hump" in the upper back
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osteoporosis
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problem solving that requires people to size up real-world situations and analyze how best to achieve goals that have a high degree of uncertainty
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practical problem solving
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age-related hearing impairments that involve a sharp loss at high frequencies around age 50, which gradually extends to all frequencies
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presbycusis
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condition of aging in which, around the age of 60, the lens of the eye loses its capacity to accommodate entirely to nearby objects
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presbyopia
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a behavior pattern consisting of extreme competitiveness, ambition, impatience, hostility, angry outbursts, and a sense of time pressure
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Type A behavior pattern
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