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life span development
120 cards·by emmatft
What are some characteristics of adult ADHD?
restlessness, procrastinator, always loosing stuff, thrill seeker, quick temper
What happens to brain responses during middle adulthood?
brain responds more slowly to cognitive tasks
What happens to brain processes during middle adulthood?
act differently, problems with attention control, makes for safer drivers
What is associated with a male driving with a male?
associate with higher crash rate
What is climactic?
loss of reproductive capacity
What happens to males reproductive system during middle adulthood?
quantity pf variable sperm produced declines
What happens to testosterone during middle adulthood?
very slow drop
What happens to male muscle tissue during middle adulthood?
loss of muscle tissue
What are middle adulthood males more at risk for?
heart disease
What ibecomes more likely to happen to males during middle adulthood?
erectile dysfunction or imputence
what is cessation of nemeses
decline in estrogen and progesterone
What is the premenpausal stage
late 30's-early 40's , eastrogen level fluctuate and decline cycles without ovum
What is the postmenopausal stage
hot flashes, sleep deprivation: psychological distress
What is postmenopausal stage
stop menstration 1 yr, estrogen and progesteron
What is hormone therapy?
progesterone and estrogen vs placebo, does not prevent cardiovascular cancer
What does hormone therapy help with?
eases menopausal symptoms
What does hormone therapy increase?
risk of breast or ovarian cacner
What might hormone therapy protect against
osteoporosis
What might hormone therapy protect against
osteoporosis
What is presbyopia
reading glasses due to farsightedness
What is prebycus?
loss of hearing high and low frequency
After what age does hearing loss accelerates?
age 55
What is atherosclerosis?
ateries become clogged with plaque and can cause heart attracts and strokes
What is the second leading cause of death
cancer
What reduces chances of getting cancer?
establish and maintain good health, habits reduces
What lessens the risk of colorectal cancer
dietary fat and red meat
What is HPV linked to?
cervical cancer
What is epstein?
bar virus associated with ear.. noise, and throat cancers
What is hepatit B associated with?
live cancer
What is the best predictor of health outcomes during middle age than any other time life?
Social class
What are other predictors of health?
occupational level and education best predictors on health
Who have shorter life spans?
African American
What is the leading factor for cardiovascular ?
women obesity
What is the leading factor for cardiovascular in men
hypertension is the key risk
What is the denney Model?
age related changes follow a typical curve, height in the curve (level of performance)
depends on the low much in individual exercises
What is selective optimization?
minimize visitations
What is optimization?
improve physical fitness or knowledge
What is compensation?
use strategies to compensate
What is visual memory?
Remember an object you have seen for a few seconds declines with age
What are episodic memories?
personal events/memories
What is semantic memories?
general knowledge
What happens during peoples 40's
significant theoretical work developed during 40's
What is divergent thinking?
multiple solutions to problems that have nuclear answers
What percent of middle age individuals experience mid life crisis?
25%
What can bring on a mid life crisis?
life event
What is another factor for individuals experience mid life crisis?
how adults respond to normative/non normative life events
What is some adults do during mid life?
write life story, might have major health issues
What is generativity?
interest to establish and guide the next generation
what is stagnation
stagnation and impoverishment personal overindulgence
What are revisions to Erickson's theory
career consolidation stage
What is career consolidation stage?
between stage intimacy and genertivity, generate sanctification
What is the keeper of the meaning?
after the generitvity stage, preserve values and institution to benefit future
generations, giving rather than getting
What happens for middle age individuals that is a crisis?
confront a crisis a difficult tasks, adapt to major role changes
What is role conflict?
situation where two or more roles are partially incompatible ex: caring for a teen and caring
for parents
What is role stress?
stress person feels if they lack the resources to fulfill role
What can happen during middle age?
give assistance in both directions of the generational chain
What is the sandwich generation?
taking care of elderly parents and taking care of own family
What is common among st people who are taking care of aging parents
caregivers report more depression and less martial satisfaction due to caregiver burden
What is likely among caregivers of aging parents?
dont have children at home, live closer to aging parent, daughter or inlaws
What is remote relationship?
see grandchildren infrequency due to physical distance
What percent of grand parenting relationships are remote?
29 percent
answer
What percent of grand parenting relationships are companionate?
50 percent
What is an involved grandparent?
help in rearing their grand parents, multi generational house, nearly full time care
What is the big five?
OCEAN, has to do with continuity and change in personality
What is OCEAN?
openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
What letters of OCEAN declines with age?
O, E, N decline as adults age
WHat letter increases through age 70 mid life crisis career issue
A, B, C
What peaks during mid life?
work sanctification
What remains high during mid life?
quality of work performance
What do people in mid life experience less of?
burnout of career, careers are more stable
What are people at risk for when they experience an involuntary career change
anxiety, depression, health risk
What are things that are common people who have experienced a involuntary career change?
changes in family relationships, loss of self esteem, good coping skills
What are different types of baby boomers that DYchtwalds survey showed?
wealth builders, idealists, empowered trailblazers, stretched and stressed, leisure
liifers
What is a idealists baby boomer?
interested involunteer work
What is the empowered trailblazer baby boomer?
travel, courses
What is the stretched and stressed baby boomers
concerned about sufficient finances
What is the leisure lifers baby boomers?
recreational pursuits
What is the fastest growing part of the population in?
centenarians
What is gerontology?
specific study of aging
What is considered young old?
60-75
what is old old?
75-85
What is the oldest old?
85 and older
What is disablility?
limits on persons ability to self help tasks
What are two most common disabilities
arthritis and hypertension
what is ADL
activities of daily living, bathing and dressing
What IADL?
instrumental activities of daily living, managing money
What does physical activities help with people over 80?
motor skill improvement and muscular strength
What decreases in the eyes?
blood flow
what are cataracts
lens becomes clouded
What is most common among men when it comes to hearing?
cant hear high frequency sounds, word discrimination, and distractions
What is tinnitus?
persistent ringing in ears, increase with age
What is hayflick limit?
species subject to limit, cells loose their ability to replicate themselves
What is telomeres?
"Timekeeping mechanism" #of telemeres reduces on chromosome when cell divides
What is the programmed senescence theory
gradual breaking down of body systems
What is the repair genetic material and cross linking?
cells disability to repair breaks in DNA: loss of cellular function
What is cross linking
undesirable chemical bonds from between proteins or fats
What is the terminal drop hypothesis?
significant declines part of dying process, occurs within a few years of death, leads to drops
in functioning, mostly changes in cognitive F
What declines when a person has Alzheimers disease?
ability to communicate
What increases when a person has Alzheimer's disease?
difficulty processing information about others emotions, anger inappropriate outbursts,
depression
What are genetic factors to Alzheimer's disease?
three seperate genes: 19, dendrites and axons become tangled
What is galatamie and what is it effective for treating
Alzheimer's, increases neurotransmitters, slows progression,
Who has higher rates of depression and why
Mexican and Chinese, due to language barrier, african americans
What stage are in people in late adulthood
ego integrity vs despair
What is integrity and what is despair
Integrity: lived a useful life, Despair: hopelessness
What is shrinkage of life space?
interact with fewer people, less social roles
what is increasing individuality?
not held to rules or experience
what is acceptance of changes?
disengage from roles and relationships
What is the continuity theory
maintain consistency in activities and interests
Who is more likely to remmary or date?
men
What is clinical death?
after the heart and breathing stops, resuscitation possible
What is brain death?
no reflexes or response to external stimuli, can breath and survive for a while
What is social death?
treated like a corpse
How does hospice care treat death?
palliative: control pain and maximize comfort
How preschoolers view death?
dont understand universality of death or permeability
how do school age children view death?
begin to understand permanence and universality of death
How do adolescents view death?
know that death is inevitable but have unrealistic beliefs about personal death:
Contributes to suicide
How early adult view death
invulnerability, unique characteristics to protect us from death, fear of death increases
after discussion, sudden loss changes these belief
Who are less fearful of death?
religious adults
What is likely among breast cancer patient who fight the hardest, express their anger, and who
find sources of joy?
They tend to live longer