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Lifespan 20,21,22
Berger
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The age-related changes that inevitable take place in a person as time goes by. | primary aging |
| The age-related changes that take place as a consequence of a person's behavior or a society's failure to eliminate unhealthy conditions. | secondary aging |
| A measure of health that refers to how healthy and energetic--physically, intellectually, and socially--an individual actually feels. | vitality |
| The total reduction in vitality that is caused by disease-induced disability in a given population. | burden of disease |
| Illnesses, such as lung cancer and breast cancer, taht are--or once were--more common in richer people and nations than in poorer ones. | diseases of affluence |
| The idea that intelligence is one basic trait, underlying all cognitive abilities. According to this concept, people have varying levels of this general ability. | general intelligence |
| A trend toward increasing average IQ, found in all developed nations during the twentieth century. | Flynn effect |
| The first cross-sequential study of adult intelligence. This study began in 1956. | Seattle Longitudinal Study |
| Those types of basic intelligence that make learning of all sorts quick and thorough. Abilities such as short-term memory, abstract thought, and speed of thinking are all usually considered part. | fluid intelligence |
| Those types of intellectual ability that reflect accumulated learning. Vocabulary and general information are examples. | crystalized intelligence |
| A form of intelligence that involves such mental processes as abstract planning, strategy selection, focused attention, and information processing, as well as verbal and logical skills. | analytic intelligence |
| A form of intelligence that involves the capacity to be intellectually flexible and innovative. | creative intelligence |
| The intellectual skills used in everyday problem solving. | practical intelligence |
| The theory, developed by Baltes, that people try to maintain a balance in their lives by looking for the best way to compensate for physical and cognitive losses and to become more proficient at activities they can do well. | selective optimization with compensation |
| Dealing with a stressor by solving the problem. | problem-focused coping |
| Dealing with a stressor by changing one's feelings about it. | emotion-focused coping |
| The five basic clusters of personality traits that remain quite stable throught adulthood: extroversion, aggreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. | big five |
| The particular lifestyle and social context adults settle into that are compatible with their individual personality needs and interests. | ecological niche |
| A tendency for men and women to become more similar as they move through middle age. | gender convergence |
| The idea that each sex takes on the other sex's roles and traits in later life. This idea is disputed, but there is no doubt that maleness and femaleness become less salient in middle age. | gender crossover |
| A period of unusual anxiety, radical reexaminatio, and sudden transformation that is widely associated with middle age but which actually has more to do with developmental history than with chronological age. | midlife crisis |
| A group of people who form relationships with an individual through which they guide and socialize that person as he or she moves through life. | social convoy |
| The person who takes primary responsibility for celbrating family achievements, gathering the family together, and keeping in touch with family members who do not live nearby. | kinkeeper |
| The idea that family members should support one another because family unity is more important than individual freedom and success. | familism |
| Grandparents who are distant but who are honored, respected, and obeyed by the younger generations in their families. | remote grandparents |
| Grandparents who actively participate in the lives of their grandchildren, seeing them daily. | involved grandparents |
| Grandparents whose relationships with their children and grandchildren are characterized by independence and friendship, with visits occurring by the grandparents' choice. | companionate grandparents |
| Grandparents who take over the raising of their grandchildren as a result of their adult children's extreme social problems. | surrogate parents |
| A term for the generation fo middle-aged people who are supposedly squeezed by the needs of the younger and older generations. | sandwich generation |
| A strategy used by middle-aged adults to balance the demands of work and family life, instead of devoting full time to one or the other. | scaling back |
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