The rise in average IQ scores over the decades in many nations
What is Flynn Effect
100
o The time in the lives of parents when their children have left the family home to pursue their own lives.
What is empty nest
100
o A condescending way of speaking to older adults that resembles baby talk, with simple ad short sentences, exaggerated emphasis, repetition and a slower rate and higher pitch than used in normal voice.
What is elder speak
100
o Older people prioritize regulation of their own emotions and seek familiar social contacts.
What is socioemotional selectivity theory
100
o The ability to control when and how emotions are expressed
What is emotional regulation
200
those aspects of basic intelligence that reflect accumulated learning
What is crystallized intelligence
200
the benefits, usually in salary, insurance, pension, or status, that come with employment.
What is extrinsic rewards of a job
200
The irreversible changes that naturally occur with time
What is primary aging
200
o Theories of late adulthood that emphasize the core self, or the search to maintain one’s integrity and identity.
What is self theories
200
o A person's understanding of the thoughts of other people
What is theory of mind
300
An experience, circumstance, or condition that causes a person stress
What is A stressor
300
o The generation of middle age people who are supposedly squeezed by the needs of their younger and older members of their families.
What is sandwich generation
300
o The ability to hold information in memory for a moment before evaluating, calculating, and inferring its significance
What is working memory
300
o The urge to accumulate and hold onto familiar objects and possessions, sometimes to the point of their becoming health and/or safety hazards.
What is compulsive hoarding
300
The period in which children's bodies become adult in terms of size, shape, and sexuality
What is puberty
400
- A strategy to deal with stress by tackling a stressful situation directly
What is problem focused coping
400
o People who become accepted as part of the family who have no genetic or legal relationship to the family.
What is fictive kin
400
o The part of the information-processing system that regulates the analysis and flow of information
What is control processes
400
o The view that aging makes a person’s social sphere increasingly narrow, resulting I role relinquishment, withdrawal and passivity.
What is disengagement theory
400
o Adolescents try to figure out “Who am I?” They estabilish sexual, political, religious, and vocational identities or are confused about what roles to play
What is identity versus role confusion
500
those aspects of basic intelligence that make learning quick and thorough. ability to reason quickly on unfamiliar tasks
What is fluid intelligence
500
the personal gratifications, such as pleasure in a job well done
What is intrinsic rewards
500
– information remembered automatically- Physical skills or complex motor activity
What is procedural memory
500
o When many adults who moved into a neighborhood decades earlier never leave the area
What is naturally occurring retirement community
500
o The principle that the amount of a substance does not change even if its appearance changes.