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Aging - ✔✔Progressive changes during adult years, these changes are not necessarily negative nor do
they reduce an individual's viability
Gerontology - ✔✔The study of the human aging process from maturity to old age, as well as the study of
the older adult as a special population
Geriatrics - ✔✔The study of health and disease in later life
Concerned w/ the comprehensive health care of older people and the well-being of their caregivers
Senscence - ✔✔Mutations that may accumulate over time in certain genes in cells in the reproductive
system, on the other hand, describe age related loss of function
Ageism - ✔✔The prejudiced behavior of individuals and systems within the culture against older adults
Chronological aging - ✔✔Number of years since birth
Biological aging - ✔✔The changes reducing efficiency of organ systems
Psychological Aging - ✔✔Memory, learning, adaptive capacity, personality, and mental functioning
Social Aging - ✔✔Referring to social roles, relationships, and the overall social context in which we grow
old
Health technology - ✔✔Reduced infant mortality and prolonged adult life
Scientific technology - ✔✔Creating jobs that do not depend on skills and knowledge accumulated over
decades of experience
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, Gerontophilia - ✔✔1600 to 1800
Old age was exalted and venerated, sometimes hated and feared, but more often honored and obeyed
Gerontophobia - ✔✔1800 to present
Americans increasingly glorified youth instead of age, and older people often became victims of
prevailing attitudes and social arrangements
Stereotypes - ✔✔Generalized beliefs or opinions based on individual experience, often produced by
irrational thinking
Mortality salience - ✔✔Occurs when fear of death is high. To buffer this fear people identify more
strongly with their in-group
Negative aging stereotypes - ✔✔Illness, impotency, ugliness, mental decline, mental illness, uselessness,
isolation, poverty, depression
Biomedicalization of aging - ✔✔Growth of scientific inquiry and subsequent advances in medical
sciences. The belief that problems associated with aging are biological rather than social and behavioral
Compassionate stereotyping - ✔✔Olders adults are portrayed as disadvantaged on some level (
economic, social, psychological) in need and deserving of help by others
Positive stereotypes - ✔✔Generalized beliefs that categorize all older people in a favorable light
Negative stereotypes - ✔✔Categorize old people in demeaning ways
Self-concept - ✔✔The way in which people see themselves as being
Social construction of self - ✔✔The way we interpret events in our lives is partially a reflection of how we
are treated
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Aging - ✔✔Progressive changes during adult years, these changes are not necessarily negative nor do
they reduce an individual's viability
Gerontology - ✔✔The study of the human aging process from maturity to old age, as well as the study of
the older adult as a special population
Geriatrics - ✔✔The study of health and disease in later life
Concerned w/ the comprehensive health care of older people and the well-being of their caregivers
Senscence - ✔✔Mutations that may accumulate over time in certain genes in cells in the reproductive
system, on the other hand, describe age related loss of function
Ageism - ✔✔The prejudiced behavior of individuals and systems within the culture against older adults
Chronological aging - ✔✔Number of years since birth
Biological aging - ✔✔The changes reducing efficiency of organ systems
Psychological Aging - ✔✔Memory, learning, adaptive capacity, personality, and mental functioning
Social Aging - ✔✔Referring to social roles, relationships, and the overall social context in which we grow
old
Health technology - ✔✔Reduced infant mortality and prolonged adult life
Scientific technology - ✔✔Creating jobs that do not depend on skills and knowledge accumulated over
decades of experience
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, Gerontophilia - ✔✔1600 to 1800
Old age was exalted and venerated, sometimes hated and feared, but more often honored and obeyed
Gerontophobia - ✔✔1800 to present
Americans increasingly glorified youth instead of age, and older people often became victims of
prevailing attitudes and social arrangements
Stereotypes - ✔✔Generalized beliefs or opinions based on individual experience, often produced by
irrational thinking
Mortality salience - ✔✔Occurs when fear of death is high. To buffer this fear people identify more
strongly with their in-group
Negative aging stereotypes - ✔✔Illness, impotency, ugliness, mental decline, mental illness, uselessness,
isolation, poverty, depression
Biomedicalization of aging - ✔✔Growth of scientific inquiry and subsequent advances in medical
sciences. The belief that problems associated with aging are biological rather than social and behavioral
Compassionate stereotyping - ✔✔Olders adults are portrayed as disadvantaged on some level (
economic, social, psychological) in need and deserving of help by others
Positive stereotypes - ✔✔Generalized beliefs that categorize all older people in a favorable light
Negative stereotypes - ✔✔Categorize old people in demeaning ways
Self-concept - ✔✔The way in which people see themselves as being
Social construction of self - ✔✔The way we interpret events in our lives is partially a reflection of how we
are treated
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