Chapter 5 Terms: Adulthood
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| Menopause | A woman’s production of sex hormones drops sharply and stops ovulating and menstruating
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| Generativity | The desire to use one’s wisdom to guide future generations as a parent or indirectly
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| Stagnation | A discontinuation of development and a desire to recapture the past, characteristic of some middle-aged people
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| Climacteric | All the psychological and biological changes that occur in women between the ages of 45 and 50
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| BOOM phase | Becoming one’s own man (becoming fully independent)
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| Decremental Model of Aging | That progressive physical and mental decline is inevitable with age
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| Ageism | Prejudice or discrimination based on age, especially against the elderly
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| Senile Dementia | Decreases in mental abilities experienced by some people in old age
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| Alzheimer’s Disease | Currently an irreversible, incurable condition that destroys a person’s ability to think, remember, relate to others, and care for herself or himself
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| “Golden Ager” | Another world for old people
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| AARP | American Association of Retired Persons
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| Crystallized Intelligence | The ability to use accumulated knowledge and learning in appropriate situations
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| Fluid Intelligence | The ability to solve abstract relational problems and to generate new hypotheses
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| Thanatology | The study of dying and death
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| Hospice | A special place where terminally ill people go to die
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| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | Did pioneering work on how the terminally ill react to their impending death. Her work mainly established thanatology
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