Physical Aspects of Aging
This mental ability involving quick thinking and problem solving typically declines with age.
Fluid intelligence
This theory proposes that older adults become more selective about relationships because they perceive time as limited.
What is Socioemotional Selectivity Theory?
This disease results from decreased bone density and greatly increases fracture risk.
Which gender is most at risk?
What is osteoperosis?
Who are women?
This stage, proposed by Piaget, characterizes the ability to think abstractly and hypothetically.
What is formal operational thought?
The first menstrual period in girls is called this.
What is menarche?
Although reaction time tends to slow with age this type of intelligence tends to remain stable over time
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
According to this theory, staying socially active leads to greater life satisfaction in old age.
What is Activity theory?
This sense is often the first to decline with normal aging
What is sense of taste (second choice- smell)
This lifestyle factor is one of the strongest predictors of long-term health in young adulthood.
What is regular exercise?
This tendency causes adolescents to believe everyone is watching them.
What is the imaginary audience?
This disease is the most common cause of Dementia
What is Alzheimer's
Older adults who look back on life with regret and dissatisfaction may experience this.
Whaty is despair?
Research has demonstrated that the brain loses ___% to ___% of its weight between 20 and 90 years of age and this is mainly due to what happening in the brain? ___
What is 5-10% and due to shrinkage of neurons and pruning
The years leading up to menopause in women are known by this term.
what is Perimenopause?
This developmental process refers to increasing independence from parents.
What is autonomy?
Generally speaking across races and genders, these are the leading causes of death among older adults in the United States
What are Heart Disease and Cancer?
This factor is one of the strongest predictors of good adjustment to retirement.
What is good health? (second choice: what are good finances? or strong social support?)
What are the three main vision problems that occur in aging?
What are Cataracts? Glaucoma? and Macular Degeneration?
This common health condition becomes increasingly prevalent during middle adulthood and is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
What is hypertension?
This is the second leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States.
What is suicide?
This brain structure, critical for forming new memories, often shrinks with normal aging.
This neurotransmitter declines with age and is especially affected in Parkinson's disease.
What is the Hippocampus?
What is Dopamine?
This life event is associated with increased loneliness and higher risk of depression in older adulthood.
Research consistently shows that this psychosocial factor is one of the strongest predictors of happiness, health, and longevity in older adulthood.
What is widowhood?
What is social support?
Who are the baby boomers and why are they important in the field of aging?
They are born between 1946-1964 and have led to many elders now in society
Middle age adults who feel disconnected, self-absorbed, and unproductive may experience this according to Erikson.
What is stagnation?