Human growth and development final

Two categories of intelligence that show different rate of change across the lifespan ? Refers to information processing abilities, such as logical reasoning, remembering list, spatial ability, and reaction time.? Encompasses abilities that draw upon experience and knowledge

Fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence

The ? Theory of aging states that organisms age because cells accumulate free radical damage over time

Free radical

Men are more likely to be widowed, reflecting there longer life expectancy with the death of a spouse, being one of life's most destructive experiences

False

Older adults rely more on mental rehearsal strategies to store and retrieve information. Younger adults rely more on external curs such as familiarity and context to recall.

False

Fewer than half of midlife adults exercise and only about ? Exercise frequently and strenuously enough to achieve health benefits

20%

Hearing loss is experienced about 30% of people age ? And older with almost half of people over ? Having some hearing loss

70, 85

? Is the most common form of dementia, and is incurable, but there are also non-organic causes of dementia, which can be prevented.

Alzheimer's disease

Describes the experience of men during the climacteric

Andropause

? Occurs when a death is expected and survivors have time to prepare to some extent before the loss

Anticipatory grief

Bo a five year old woman who has difficulty managing simple every day task because a painful swelling of the joints in her hands, Bonnie has most likely been diagnosed with

Arthritis

Generativity vs stagnation for Erikson is a movement away from individual self development towards

Belief in the species

? Is the outwards expressions of grief and mourning and funeral rites are expressions of loss reflecting personal and cultural beliefs

Bereavement

Someone is ? When there is no longer brain activity referred to as clinically dead

Brain dead

Remarriage is more popular with women than men, a gender gap that increases in Middle and later adulthood

False

? Are people aged 100 or older and are both rare and distinct from the rest of the older population

Centenarians

Rights of marital happiness are highest in the years prior to the birth of the first child, low point with the coming of children, and began to improve when

Children leave home

A large generational divide involves the use of technology a 70 year old is less likely to use technologies than a 20 year old. research shows that some of this difference may be explained by decline in attention and memory that occurs as we age what kind of age related change would describe this limitation

Cognitive

? Emphasizes focusing on the patient rather than the disease and introduced the notion of total pain

Dame cicely Saunders

? Is the umbrella category use to describe the general long term often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that affects a persons daily function

Dementia

It has been said that grief last about two years or less, but intense of grief is throughout life

False

? Refers to helping a person for fielder wish that I could happen through voluntary euthanasia or physician assisted suicide

Euthanasia

the ? Suggests that negative events tend to lose their emotional intensity at a faster rate, then pleasant events.

Fading affect bias

In midlife people spend lots of time, thinking of their lives in terms of how long they have Lived. They are not concerned about how many years are left in. There is no urgency to start to make changes now

False

Lorraine is 70 years old and complains that she cannot read or drive as well as she wants. Because her vision and especially her peripheral vision has decreased after an hour exam. The doctor tells her that the fluid in her eyes cannot be drain properly causing too much pressure in a fluid in her eyes. Which condition does Lorraine have

Glaucoma

The ? Limit refers to the limited number of times cells divide then stop

Hayflick

According to research about the centers of disease, control and prevention, chronic diseases, especially a concern in the elderly population in America. It is estimated that at least 80% of older Americans are currently living with some form of a chronic condition, with 50% of the population, having two or more chronic conditions ? Is the leading cause of death from chronic disease for older adults over 65

Heart disease

What is a key aspect of the work that palliative care doctors do

Help dying individuals and their families understand what is happening in what it might imply

? Reflects the belief that most of us have our character set like plaster by the age 30. However more recent research shows that while some people maintain stable personalities over time others do not

Plaster hypothesis

Once commonly used to treat menopause symptoms ? Therapy has been associated with breast, cancer, stroke, and the development of blood clots and is therefore not utilized as a form of treatment as much now.

Hormone replacement

Involves palliation without curative intent and is typically used by people without further options or who have decided not to pursue further options

Hospice care

Erik Erikson referred to the psychosocial task in late adulthood as_____________ versus _______________ where the goal is to look back over life with satisfaction.

Integrity vs despair

What is a major function of ceremonies such as funerals and memorial services

Play provide the surviving individuals with a sense of closure

David is retiring from the company after 30 years. His boss Sandra is worried that the person she is training to replace him may not be able to. She has shown him all the systems and introduced him to customers and clients. The new person is proficient in all of those systems And he is extremely personable. Why am I so worried wonders Sandra the answer has something to do with the tactic knowledge which is

Knowledge which cannot be codified transferred in a written form, or even properly verbalized, and therefore difficult to transfer

? Described five stages of loss experienced by someone facing the news of their impending death that provide a framework for understanding the physiological experience of an impending death.

Kubler Ross

A primary motivation and continuing to work has been identified as a desire to pass on skills and experience a process researchers have described as ? or mentoring

Leader generativity

Which is true of life expectancies in the United States

Life expectancy in the United States, are higher for women than men

Mini causes of death are linked, at least in part to ? Minnie are preventable to some extent, and some are avoidable if the proper actions are taken.

Lifestyle choices

In marriages destined to fail, partners engage in ? such as contempt, criticism, defensiveness, and stonewalling

Marriage killers

Stereotypes about people in late adulthood lead many to assume that aging automatically brings

Mental decline

We are considered to be in late adulthood by the time we reach our ________________ until _____________.

Mid sixties, death

Grandparenting typically begins in ? Rather than late adulthood but longer lifespans mean being grandparents longer

Midlife

? Means that Tom is a valuable commodity, requiring careful consideration and investment.

Mortality salience

? Is an interdisciplinary approach to specialized medical and nursing care for people with life limiting illnesses

Palliative care

? Broke down grief into four stages

Parkes

? Occurs when a physician prescribe some means by which a person can and his or her own life

Physician assisted suicide

Anime is 72 years old she recently became a volunteer for habitat for humanity. When I project was introduced to her group of friends at the senior community center, where she was already involved in tutoring school, students in reading and math. This is just an example of how people in late adulthood I continue to be ? In many ways

Productive

And addition to middle-age parents, spending more time, money and energy, taking care of their adult children. They are also increasingly taking care of their own aging and ailing partners which is referred to as the

Sandwich generation

Exercise encourages, nerve growth, slowing the progression of ? The loss of muscle tissue and function as we age.

Sarcopenia

The ? Of adult cognition began in 1956 and has found that cognitive abilities decrease beginning in the sixth decade and gain increasing significance from that point forward

Seattle longitudinal study

? Biological aging, is the gradual deterioration of functional characteristics

Senescence

Harvey, who is suffering from poor health in a nursing home, its told by the doctor, that he will probably not have another six months. Harvey tries to remain positive, but visits from his family and friends become more infrequent, and the doctors and nurses seem to avoid him which aspect of death is characterized by this behavior

Social

What is the difference between social death and physiological death?

Social death occurs when individuals withdraw from the dying individual while physiological death occurs when the individual withdraws from others

The following theory, ? Maintains that has Tom Verizon straight people become increasingly selective, investing, greater resources and emotional meaningful goals and activities

Socio-emotional selectivity theory

According to levinson the ? View argues that each stage overlaps and consists of a stable, phase and transitional phase into the following period

Stage crisis

? Is the feeling of lethargy and a lack of enthusiasm and involvement in both individual and communal affairs

Stagnation

Because men in late adulthood are more likely to suffer from emotional isolation. They are typically at higher risk for.

Suicide

There is no increasing evidence about the harmful effects of chronic inflammation. In general. It is implicated in a whole series of degenerative illnesses. What diet is recommended in helping to avoid this

The Mediterranean diet

What does physiological death refer to?

The ceasing of vital organs to function

What are personal control beliefs

The idea that the individual can dictate outcomes in a specific situation.

What is a major goal of hospice care

To help dying patients be as free from pain as possible

Having a single confidant is more important to happiness than having a large social Network

True

In middle adulthood, the middle age spread is the weight gain or accumulation of fat in the abdomen that is often one of the common complaints of midlife adults

True

Not all racial and ethnic groups feel the same way about hospice

True

The major causes of death vary significantly among age groups with ? Being a leading cause of death for the widest variety of ages

Unintentional injuries

As we age ? Loses some capacity, making it difficult to concentrate on more than one thing at a time and remembering details.

Working memory

Demographers use which terminology to describe people between the ages of 65 and 74 years?

Young old

The laws that govern position assisted suicide vary between state, but a person will always be convicted of a felony if they proceed with this type of death

false