Ch 13 & 15
This type of aging results from disease, health habits, environment, and socioeconomic factors. Not all adults will experience it.
What is secondary aging
These are the components found in an relationship with consummate love
What are passion, intimacy, and commitment
This is one of the traits measured using the Big 5 personality scale
Openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
This is a change we see in the visual system with age
Several answers: cataracts, glaucoma, farsightedness, difficulty seeing at night
This is one type of abuse older adults may experience
Psychological, physical, financial, sexual, neglect
The understanding that some things cannot be described as true or false; instead, you need to consider the context and other factors that influence something
What is post formal thought; specifically, relativism
These are the possible outcomes for Erikson's stage of early adulthood
What are intimacy and isolation
This type of grandparent relationship includes the lowest amount of involvement with grandchildren
What is 'remote' grandparent relationships
Tasks such as showering, feeding, and toileting are considered these types of tasks
What are basic activities of daily living
This process involves looking back on your life and making judgements about how happy you are with your life decisions
what is life review
This is the type of intelligence that starts to decline in early adulthood
What is fluid intelligence
This theory proposes that differences in mate preference between males and females are due to the amount of effort required for child-rearing
What is parental investment theory
A middle-aged adult who is struggling to balance the demands required by their stressful job as well as caring for their mother with dementia is experiencing this.
What is role conflict
These are the ends of chromosomes that serve as a kind of timekeeping mechanism
What are telomeres
This approach to aging says that it's normal for older adults to scale down their social lives and interact with fewer people
What is disengagement theory
This is a trend we see in memory in middle adulthood
Semantic memory remains quite stable; episodic memory tends to decline
This is what marital satisfaction looks like for a couple without children in early adulthood
Remains more stable over this time period compared to a couple with children
This is an additional stage proposed by Vaillant that comes after 'Generativity'
What is 'Keeper of the Meaning'
This is something that makes depression difficult to diagnose in late adulthood
older adults may only report physical symptoms, symptoms may be considered old-age "grumpiness", health practitioners may display ageism
These are the four components of the successful aging paradigm
What are good physical heath, maintaining cognitive functioning, being involved with social activities, and staying productive