Chapter 5 Adulthood
The stage of adulthood an individual reaches their peak physical state in.
What is: Early Adulthood/Young Adulthood
The "decremental model of aging" and its significance
What is: The belief that physical and mental decline with old age is inevitable.
The parts that make up the Central Nervous System (CNS)
What are: The brain and spinal cord
The function of the endocrine system.
What is: Sending chemical messages, called hormones.
Two (2) of the functions of the Left Hemisphere of the brain.
What is: Speech, logic, mathematics, calculation, and movement of the right side of the body.
How does female development differ from male development?
What is: The lack of a mid-life crisis or Menopause
The two types of intelligence proposed by John Horn.
What are: Crystallized intelligence (the ability to use accumulated knowledge and learning in appropriate situations, intelligence you've stored with experience) and Fluid intelligence (the ability to solve abstract relational problems and to generate new hypotheses, intelligence based around new thoughts)
The function of the corpus callosum.
What is: To join together and serve as the messenger between the two hemispheres of the brain.
Define Nature Vs Nurture
What is: The argument whether human nature is instinctive or in our genes (Nature) or if it is learned and a result of environmental factors (Nurture)
The effects of inbreeding.
What is: More predictable results, but more likely inherited negative traits.
The three (3) most common causes of death in later adulthood.
What are: Heart Disease, Cancer, Cirrhosis of the Liver (Liver Complications)
One of the more severe transitional periods an older person can go through.
What is: The loss of a spouse.
The four (4) parts of a Neuron.
What are: Dendrites, Nucleus, Axon, Axon Terminals
The major difference(s) between a Neurotransmitter and a Hormone.
What is: A neurotransmitter is instant and specified whereas a hormone is slow and widespread.
The most common type of Dementia in the elderly.
What is: Alzheimer's.
The percentage of new marriages that end in divorce.
What is: Around 40-60%
Three (3) of the five (5) most prevalent chronic diseases in elderly.
What are: Heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and arthritis.
Any 3 of the 5.
The two (2) parts of the autonomic nervous system.
What are: The sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.
The difference between a Genotype and a Phenotype
What is: A phenotype is a outwardly expressed/visible genetic trait.
The function of the Parietal Lobe.
What is: Information from the senses from all over the body.
The meaning behind "Generativity Vs Stagnation"
What is: The desire to use one’s wisdom to guide future generations versus a desire to recapture the past.
The "Five Stages of Dying"
What are: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and acceptance
The name of the lobes in the Brain.
What are: The frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes.
The amount of chromosomes (or chromosome pairs) in humans.
What is: 46 chromosomes (23 pairs)
Two (2) of the four (4) forms of brain imaging.
What are: computerized axial tomography (CT) scans, positron emission tomography (PET) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans.