Adults' desire to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation
What is Generativity?
100
The most noticeable changes in physical appearance in late adulthood
What are wrinkles and age spots?
100
Prejudice against other people because of their age, especially prejudice against older adults
What is Ageism?
100
When all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time
What is Brain Death?
200
Age-related loss of muscle mass and strength
What is Sarcopenia?
200
Levinson's four major conflicts that adult males face
What is young vs. old, destructive vs. constructive, masculine vs. feminine, being attached to others vs. being separated?
200
Damage to the optic nerve because of the pressure created by a buildup of fluid in the eye
What is Glaucoma?
200
Changes in cognitive activity patterns might result in disuse and consequent atrophy of cognitive skills
What is "use it or lose it"?
200
Death induced deliberately, as by injecting a lethal dose of a drug
What is Active Euthanasia?
300
Ability to reason abstractly
What is fluid intelligence?
300
The view that when men experience stress, they are more likely to become aggressive, withdraw from social contact, or drink alcohol
What is fight-or-flight?
300
The leading cause of broken bones in women
What is Osteoporosis?
300
A progressive, irreversible brain disorder that is characterized by a gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and eventually, physical function
What is Alzheimer Disease?
300
Grief over a deceased person that is socially ambiguous and cannot be openly mourned or supported
What is Disenfranchised Grief?
400
Pleasant times after work when individuals are free to pursue activities of their own interest
What is Leisure?
400
The Big Five Factors of Personality
What are emotional stability, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness?
400
Considerable pain and swelling in wrists, fingers, and knees
What is Arthritis?
400
_____ is especially important to successful aging
What is being active?
400
A program committed to making the end of life as free from pain, anxiety, and depression as possible
What is Hospice?
500
Individual's accumulated information and verbal skills
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
500
A term used to indicate a decrease in marital satisfaction after children leave home
What is Empty Nest Syndrome?
500
Involve a thickening of the lens of the eye that causes vision to become cloudy and distorted
What are Cataracts?
500
The theory that older adults become more selective about their social networks.
What is Socioemotional Selectivity Theory?
500
Kubler Ross' Stages of Dying
What are denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance?