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Physical appearance and women - Answer✔2 inch decline in women
weight gain
body fat grows
strength gradually decreases
Osteoporosis - Answer✔a condition in which the bones become brittle, fragile, and thin, often
brought about by a lack of calcium in the diet
Vision in Middle adulthood - Answer✔visual acuity- the ability to discern fine spatial details in
both close and distant objects- begins to decline
Presbyopia - Answer✔a nearly universal change in eyesight during middle adulthood that
results in some loss of near vision
Glaucoma - Answer✔a condition in which pressure in the fluid of the eye increases, either
because the fluid cannot drain properly or because too much fluid is produced
Hearing in Middle adulthood - Answer✔declines because of environmental factors (loud
noises), loss of hair cells in the inner ear, less elastic eardrum
Presbycusis - Answer✔loss of the ability to hear sounds of high frequency
Female Climacteric - Answer✔the period that marks the transition from being able to bear
children to being unable to do so
Menopause - Answer✔cessation of menstruation
Perimenopause - Answer✔10 years prior to menopause when hormone production begins to
change
Male climacteric - Answer✔the period of physical and psychological change relating to the male
reproductive system that occurs during late middle age
Type A Behavior Pattern - Answer✔Competitiveness, impatience, frustration, hostility
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engage in polyphasic activities- multiple activities at once
easily angered
heart rate and blood pressure rise
wear and tear on heart
Type B Behavior Pattern - Answer✔Non-competitiveness, Patience, Lack of aggression
Fluid Intelligence - Answer✔reflects ability to solve and reason about novel problems
Crystallized Intelligence - Answer✔the accumulation of information, skills, and strategies that
people have learned through experience and that they can apply in problem-solving situations
Selective Optimization - Answer✔the process by which people concentrate on particular skill
areas to compensate for losses in other areas
Types of memory - Answer✔sensory, short term, long term
sensory memory - Answer✔initial, momentary storage, only lasts a second, no decline
short-term memory - Answer✔holds information to 15-25 seconds, no decline
long-term memory - Answer✔holds information that is rehearsed for relatively permanent
time, some decline, storage less efficient, reduction in efficiency of memory retrieval
Memory in middle adulthood - Answer✔most people show minimal losses, can be
compensated by various cognitive strategies
Schemas - Answer✔organized bodies of information stored in memory
Mnemonics - Answer✔formal strategies for organizing material in ways that make it more likely
to be remembered
Normative crisis model - Answer✔the approach to personality development that is based on
fairly universal stages tied to a sequence of age-related crises
Life events model - Answer✔the approach to personality development that is based on the
timing of particular events in an adult's life rather than on age per se
Generativity versus stagnation - Answer✔according to Erikson, the stage during middle
adulthood in which people consider their contributions to family and society
Generativity - Answer✔guiding future generations, leaving lasting contributions, looking
beyond one's self
stagnation - Answer✔focusing on the triviality of life, made limited contribution to the world
Midlife crisis - Answer✔a stage of uncertainty and indecision brought about by the realization
that life is finite
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