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PSY 275 Final Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The lifestyle of unmarried couples who have a sexually intimate relationship and who share a residence | Cohabitation |
| warm, trusting affection and caregiving | companionate love |
| partners relate as equals in this type of marriage | Egalitarian Marriage |
| Transition between late teens to mid-twenties | emerging adulthood |
| sequences of phases characterizing the development of most families around the world | family life cycle |
| reflected in the young person's thoughts and feelings about making a permanent commitment to an intimate partner | intimacy versus isolation |
| underlying design of person's life, consisting of relationships with significant others-individuals, groups, and institutions | life-structure |
| unhappiness resulting from a gap between the social relationships we currently have and those we desire | loneliness |
| beginning of a relationship, intense sexual attraction | passionate love |
| age-graded expectations for major life events, such as beginning a first job, getting married, birth of the first child, buying a home, and retiring | social clock |
| involving a clear division of husband's and wife's roles | traditional marriage |
| intimacy, passion, and love | Triangular Theory of Love |
| midlife transition in which fertility declines | climacteric |
| refers to skills that depend on accumulated knowledge and experience, good judgement, and mastery of social conventions | crystallized intelligence |
| depends more heavily on basic informations-processing skills-ability to detect relationships among visual stimuli, speed of analyzing information, and capacity of working memory | fluid intelligence |
| disease in which poor fluid drainage leads to buildup of pressure within the eye, damaging the optic nerve | glaucoma |
| control, commitment, and challenge | hardiness |
| estrogen alone or estrogen plus progesterone | hormone therapy |
| suggest that older adults experience greater loss of information as it moves through the cognitive system | information-loss view |
| end of menstruation and reproductive capacity | menopause |
| as neurons in the brain die, breaks in neural networks occur. The brain adapts by forming bypasses-new synaptic connections that go around the breaks but are less efficient | neural network view |
| when age related bone loss is severe | osteoporosis |
| requires people to size up real-world situations and analyze how best to achieve goals that have a high degree of uncertainty | practical problem solving |
| condition that is age related | presbycusis |
| the lens loses its capacity to adjust to objects at varying distances entirely | presbyopia |
| extreme competitiveness, ambition, impatience, hostility, angry outburst, and a sense of time pressure | type A behavior pattern |
| condition in which long-term job stress leads to mental exhaustion, a sense of loss of personal control, and feelings of reduced accomplishment | burnout |
| a trend in which women who support themselves or their families have become the majority of the adult population living in poverty, regardless of age and ethnic group | feminization of poverty |
| invisible barrier to advancement up the corporate ladder | glass ceiling |
| gathering of the family for celebrations and making sure everyone stays in touch | kinkeeper |
| how much personal upheaval actually accompanies entry to midlife, self-doubt and stress | midlife crisis |
| holds that identification with traditional gender roles is maintained during the active parenting years to help ensure the survival of children | parental imperative theory |
| future oriented representations of what one hopes to become and what one is afraid of becoming | possible selves |
| widely used to refer to the idea that middle-aged adults must care for multiple generations above and below them at the same time | sandwich generation |
| live with grandparents but apart from parents | skipped-generation family |
| basic self-care tasks required to live on one's own, such as bathing, dressing, getting in and out of bed and eating | activities of daily living (ADL) |
| most common form of dementia | Alzheimer's Disease |
| dense deposits of a deteriorated protein called amyloid surround by clumps of dead nerve and glial cells | amyloid plaques |
| a homelike housing arrangement for seniors who require more care than can be provided at home but less than is usually provided in nursing homes | assisted living |
| array of devices that permit people with disabilities to improve their functioning | assistive technology |
| difficulty creating and retrieving links between pieces of information | associative memory deficit |
| the immune system is more likely to malfunction by turning against normal body tissues | autoimmune response |
| the number of years that an individual born in a particular year can expect to live, starting at any given age | average live expectancy |
| the number of years a person born in a particular year can expect to live in full health, without disease or injury | average healthy life expectancy |
| cloudy areas in the lens resulting in foggy vision | cataracts |
| a series of strokes leaves areas of dead brain cells, producing step-by-step degeneration of mental ability, with each step occurring abruptly after a stroke | cerebrovascular dementia |
| ideally we want the average period of diminished vigor before death to decrease | compression of morbidity |
| set of disorders occurring almost entirely in old age in which many aspects of thought and behavior are so impaired that everyday activites are disrupted | dementia |
| weakened functioning of diverse organs and body systems, which profoundly interferes with everyday competence and leaves the older adult highly vulnerable in the face of an infection | frailty |
| actual competence and performance | functional age |
| memory without conscious awareness | implicit memory |
| tasks necessary to conduct the business of daily life and also requiring some cognitive competence, such as telephoning, shopping, food preparation | Instrumental Activities of Daily Living |
| central vision blurs and gradually is lost | macular degeneration |
| genetic limit to length of life for a person free of external risk factors | maximum lifespan |
| bundles of twisted threats that are the product of collapsed neural structures and that contain abnormal forms of a protein called tau | neurofibrillary tangles |
| involves deteriorating cartilage on the ends of bones of frequently used joints | osteoarthritis |
| genetically influenced declines that affect all members of our species and take place even in the context of overall good health | primary aging |
| refers to remembering to engage in planned actions in the future | prospective memory |
| very long-term recall | remote memory |
| autoimmune response leads to inflammation of connective tissue | rheumatoid athiritis |
| declines due to hereditary defects and negative environmental influences | secondary aging |
| narrowing their goals they select personally valued activities to optimize returns from their diminishing energy | selective optimization with compensation |
| a condition in which breathing ceases for ten seconds or longer, resulting in many brief awakenings | sleep apnea |
| marked acceleration in deterioration of cognitive functioning prior to death | terminal decline |
| requires the "pinnacle of insight into the human condition" | wisdom |
| If one is worrying, temperamental,self-pitying, emotional and vulnerable which big 5 are they? | Neuroticism |
| high on extroversion trait? | affectionate, talkative, active, fun-loving, passionate |
| low on extroversion trait? | quiet, passive,sober, emotionally conservative |
| Openness to experience if one is high on this trait? | imaginative, creative, original, curious |
| Openness to experience if one is low on this trait? | uncreative, conventional, conservative |
| Individuals who are high on this trait re soft-hearted, trusting, generous, lenient | Agreeableness |
| Individuals who are lazy, disorganized, late, aimless, nonpersistent | Conscientiousness |
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