Human Development
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| Chapter 17 | show 🗑
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| prejudice or discrimination against a person (most commonly an older person) based on age | show 🗑
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| show | primary aging
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| show | secondary aging
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| measure of a person's ability to function effectively in his or her physical and social environment in comparison with others of the same chronological age | show 🗑
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| show | gerontology
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| branch of medicine concerned with the processes of aging and medical conditions associated with old age | show 🗑
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| What are causes for the aging population? | show 🗑
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| show | More people will be using the resources and not helping replenish them
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| show | Health, activity/independence
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| How is today's older population changing? | show 🗑
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| age to which a person in a particular cohort is statistically likely to live (given his or her current age and health status), on the basis of average longevity of a population | show 🗑
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| length of an individual's life | show 🗑
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| show | lifespan
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| show | mortality rate
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| What are trends in life expectancy, including gender, regional and ethnic differences? | show 🗑
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| Period of the life span marked by declines in physical functioning usually associated with aging, begins at different ages for different people | show 🗑
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| show | genetic-programming theories
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| show | Genetic-programming theory, variable-rate theory
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| theory: aging is the result of the sequential switching on and off of certain genes, time when resulting age-associated defects become evident | show 🗑
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| theory: biological clocks act through hormones to control the pace of aging | show 🗑
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| theory: program decline in the immune system functions leads to increased former ability to infectious disease and us to aging and death | show 🗑
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| show | evolutionary theory (genetic programming theory)
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| theory: cells and tissues have vital parts that wear out | show 🗑
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| theory: accumulated damage from oxygen radicals causes cells and eventually organs to stop functioning | show 🗑
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| theory: the greater an organism's rate of metabolism, the shorter its lifespan | show 🗑
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| show | autoimmune theory (variable-rate theory)
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| show | variable-rate theories or error theories
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| conversion of food and oxygen into energy | show 🗑
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| unstable, highly reactive atoms or molecules, formed during metabolism, which can cause internal bodily damage | show 🗑
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| tendency of aging body to mistake its own tissues for foreign invaders and to attack and destroy them | show 🗑
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| curves, plotted on a graph, showing percentages of a population that survive each age level | show 🗑
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| genetically controlled to limit, proposed by Hayflick, on the number of times cells can divide in members of a species | show 🗑
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| What are the 2 theories of biological aging? | show 🗑
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| show | Biological aging is the result of a genetically determined developmental timetable, genes that affect ageing, effects of mitochondria self-destructing, shrinking of telomeres
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| show | Aging is affected by environment and involves damage due to chance errors on biological systems, free radicals, autoimmunity, studying longevity medicine
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| What are the findings of life extension research? | show 🗑
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| What are the limitations of life extension research in human beings? | show 🗑
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| show | Has increased from being in the 20s to living an average of 70 years (in US), more people living to be more than 100 years old
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| show | Primary aging-natural bodily deterioration, secondary aging-result of disease, abuse, disuse, under person's control
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| show | Genetic mutations, calorie restrictive diets
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| show | reserve capacity or organ reserve
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| show | Paler, less elasticity, fat and muscle shrink, skin wrinkles, varicose veins on legs, hair thins and turns gray, shorter, thinning of bones, less reserve capacity
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| show | Less volume and weight-does not affect cognition, less neurotransmitters and synapses-slowed response time, myelin sheathing thins out-cognitive/motor decline, grow new nerve cells-better learning and memory
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| show | cataracts
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| show | age-related macular degeneration
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| show | glaucoma
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| show | Vision loss, hearing loss, less strength, endurance, balance, slower reaction time, less sleep, dream less
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| show | May need assistance to get around or function such as glasses, hearing aid
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| show | Can still have sex, may take longer, be harder to do, need longer and between
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| show | Skin becomes thinner and wrinkles, less hair, less reserve capacity, brain begins to lose some function, vision trouble, hearing trouble, less strength/endurance/balance, slower reaction time, less sleep
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| show | Can vary from person to person depending on genetics and health and exercise
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| essential activities that support survival, such as eating, dressing, bathing and getting around the house | show 🗑
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| indicators of functional well-being and of the ability to live independently | show 🗑
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| What is the health status of older adults? | show 🗑
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| show | Heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lower respiratory disease, diabetes, influenza/pneumonia, lung cancer, hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, emphysema
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| show | More mobility, protect against chronic conditions, independence, mental alertness and cognitive performance
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| deterioration in cognitive and behavioral functioning due to physiological causes | show 🗑
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| show | Alzheimer's disease
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| show | Parkinson's disease
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| show | Physicians don't treat it enough, give depression lower priority than physical ailment
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| What are the 3 main causes of dementia in older adults? | show 🗑
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| show | neurofibrillary tangles
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| show | amyloid plaque
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| show | Beta amyloid peptide-accumulation of an abnormal protein
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| show | cognitive reserve
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| show | Number of people with Alzheimer's is increasing rapidly, tends to occur in late adulthood
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| What is known about the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease? | show 🗑
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| What is known about the causes and risk factors of Alzheimer's disease? | show 🗑
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| show | Pet scan can be used to detect plaque and tangles, monitoring degenerative changes, cognitive tests
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| show | No cure, early diagnosis and keep treatment can slow progress, improve quality of life, medicines such as cholinesterase inhibitors, studying immunotherapy
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| show | Chronic conditions, and disabilities, activity limitations, nutrition, depression, dementia, Alzheimer's,
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| show | Physical activity, genetics, diet, nutrition, cognitive stimulation
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| What mental and behavioral problems do some older people experience? | show 🗑
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| intelligence test for adults, which yields verbal and performance scores as well as a combined score | show 🗑
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| show | WAIS-in nonverbal performance older adults did not perform as well as younger, Seattle-older adults lose perceptual speed 1st
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| What is evidence of the plasticity of cognitive abilities in late adulthood? | show 🗑
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| What is the relationship between practical problem solving and age? | show 🗑
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| What are findings in the slowdown of neural processing and its relationship to cognitive decline? | show 🗑
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| show | Lower IQ means less likely to live, higher cancer rate
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| initial, brief, temporary stage of sensory information | show 🗑
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| show | working memory
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| show | episodic memory
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| show | semantic memory
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| show | procedural memory or implicit memory
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| show | Episodic memory, semantic memory, procedural memory
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| show | Encoding, storage, retrieval
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| What are the 2 aspects of memory that tend to decline with age? | show 🗑
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| show | Problems with encoding, storage, retrieval, brain deteriorating
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| show | Disorders and diseases can deteriorate different parts of the brain, Alzheimer's affects working/semantic/episodic memory, normal memory processing and storage in frontal lobes and hippocampus
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| How can problems in encoding, storage and retrieval affect memory in late adulthood? | show 🗑
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| How can emotional factors affect memory? | show 🗑
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| What is wisdom? | show 🗑
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| show | Responses to hypothetical dilemmas, use factual and procedural knowledge about human condition, awareness of circumstances
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| What are Baltes’s findings from studies of wisdom? | show 🗑
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| show | Gain-intelligence, problem solving, cognitive abilities, vocabulary; lose-processing abilities, short-term memory, long-term memory, encoding/storage/retrieval
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| Are there ways to improve older people's cognitive performance? | show 🗑
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| Why are efforts to combat ageism making headway? | show 🗑
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| show | People over 80
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| show | Greater than ever before, expected to continue to grow
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| show | Primary aging is beyond people's control, secondary aging can avoid effects
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| What are the different types of old according to some specialists and the study of aging? | show 🗑
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| When do specialists in the study of aging refer to the terms young old, old old and oldest old? | show 🗑
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| What has happened to life expectancy? | show 🗑
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| Who is life expectancy greatest among? | show 🗑
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| What do recent gains in life expectancy come largely from? Well will it further improvements come from? | show 🗑
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| What 2 categories to the theories of biological aging fall into? | show 🗑
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| show | Highly variable, most continue to function fairly well, heart becomes more susceptible to disease
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| What happens to reserve capacity with age? | show 🗑
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| What changes happen to the brain with age? | show 🗑
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| show | Losses and taste and smell
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| What can interfere with daily life of older adults that can be corrected? | show 🗑
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| show | Macular degeneration, glaucoma
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| show | Muscular strength, balance, reaction time
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| show | Accidents and falls
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| show | Sleep less, dream last
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| What can be an indication of depression in older adults? | show 🗑
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| Describe sexual activity in older adults. | show 🗑
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| show | Reasonably healthy, especially if they follow a healthy lifestyle, chronic conditions, do not generally limit activities or interfere with daily life
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| show | Exercise, diet
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| show | Loss of teeth
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| show | Good mental health, depression, alcoholism, many other conditions, Alzheimer's
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| What are mental health conditions that can be reversed? | show 🗑
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| What are mental health conditions that are irreversible? | show 🗑
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| show | Becomes more prevalent
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| show | Highly heretical, diet, exercise, other lifestyle factors
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| What benefit does cognitive activity play against Alzheimer's disease? | show 🗑
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| What may slow the deterioration of Alzheimer's disease? | show 🗑
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| What can be early signs of Alzheimer's disease? | show 🗑
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| On the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), what portion do older adults do best on? | show 🗑
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| show | Highly variable, few people decline in all or most areas, many people improve in some areas
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| What types of problems are older adults most effective in solving? | show 🗑
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| In older adults, what may affect the speed of information processing? | show 🗑
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| What may be a predictor of longevity? | show 🗑
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| show | Sensory memory, semantic memory, procedural memory
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| show | Capacity of working memory, ability to recall specific events, recently learned information
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| In older adults, what parts of vocabulary and speech decline? | show 🗑
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| show | Neurological changes, problems in encoding, storage, retrieval
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| show | Cognitive performance, can benefit from training
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| What did Baltes’s studies of wisdom show? | show 🗑
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