Developmental Psychology Chapter 15 Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Presbyopia | literally old eyes, around age 60, the lens loses its capacity to adjust to objects at varying distances entirely. |
| Glaucoma | a disease in which poor fluid drainage leads to a buildup of pressure withing the eye damaging the optic nerve. |
| Presbycusis | some conditions run in families and may be hereditary most age related to "old hearing" |
| Climateric | the midlife transition in which fertility declines |
| Menopause | the end of menstruation and reproductive capacity |
| Hormone therapy | low daily doses of estrogen |
| Osteoporosis | when age related bone loss is severe |
| Type A behavior pattern | extreme competitiveness, ambition, impatience, hostility, angry outbursts and a sense of time pressure |
| Hardiness | a set of three personal qualities, control, commitment, and challenge, that together are called this word |
| Crystallized Intelligence | refers to skills that depend on accumulated knowledge and experience, good judgement and mastery of social conventions, abilities acquired because they are valued by the individual's culture |
| Fluid Intelligence | depends more heavily on basic information processing skills ability to detect relationship among visual stimuli, speed of analyzing information, and capacity of working memory. |
| Neural network view | 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 |
| Informational loss view | suggests that older adults experience greater loss of information as it moves through the cognitive system. As a result, the whole system must slow down to inspect and interpret the information. |
| Practical Problem Solving | which requires people to size up real world situations and analyze how best to achieve goals that have a high degree of uncertainty |
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