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- Secure attachment
- An attachment style that describes adults who have positive views of relationships, find it easy to get close to others, and are not overly concerned or stressed out about their romantic relationships.
- Avoidant Attachment
- An attachment style that describes adults who are hesitant about getting involved in romantic relationships and once in a relationship, tend to distance themselves from their partner.
- Anxious attachment style
- Attachment style that describes adults who demand closeness,are less trusting, and are more emotional, jealous and possessive.
- Matching hypothesis.
- States that although we prefer a more attractive person in the abstract , in the real world we end up choosing someone who is close to our own level.
- Affectionate Love
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- Romantic Love
- Also called passionate love, or eros, romantic love has strong sexual and infatuation components and often predominates in the early period of a love relationship.
- Rapport Talk
- The language of conversation, It is a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
- Report Talk
- Talk that is designed to give information and includes public speaking.
- Middle Adulthood
- The developmental period that begins at approximately 40 to 45 years of age, and extends, to about 60 to 65 years of age.
- Erectile Dysfunction
- The inability to adequately achieve and maintain an erection that results in satisfactory sexual performance.
- Chronic Disorders
- Disorders that are charachterized by slow onset and long duration. They are rare in early adulthood, and they become common in late adulthood.
- Climacteric
- The midlife transition in which fertility declines.
- Crystallized intelligence
- Accumulated information and verbal skills, which increase with middle adulthood, according to Horn.
- Fluid Intelligence
- The ability to reason abstractly, which begins to decline from middle adulthood on, according to Horn.
- Working Memory...
- The mental "workbench" where individuals manipulate and assemble information when decision making problem solving and comprehending language.
- Leisure
- The pleasant times after work when individuals are free to pursue acitivites and interests of their own choosing.
- Meaning-making coping
- Involves drawing on beliefs, values, and goals to change the meaning of a stressful situation, especially in times of chronic stress as when a love one dies.
- Big FIVE factors of personality
- Emotional stability, extraversion, openess to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
- Empty Nest syndrome
- A decrease in marital satisfaction after children leave home, because parents derive considerable satisfaction from their children.
- Life span
- The upper boundary of life, the maximum number of years an individual can live. The maximum life span of human beings is about 120-125 years of age.
- Free radical theory
- A microbiological theory of aging that states that people age because inside their cells normal metabolism produces unstable oxygen molecules known as free radicals. These molecules ricochet around inside cells, damaging DNA and other cellular structures.
- Neurogenesis
- The generation of new neurons.
- Macular Degeneration
- A disease that involves deterioration of the macula of the retina, which corresponds to the focal center of the visual field.
- Life Expectancy
- The number of years that will probably be lived by the average person born in a particular year.
- Mitochondrial Theory
- The theory that aging is caused by the decay of mitochondria, tiny cellular bodies that supply energy for the function, growth, and repair.
- Cataracts
- Involve a thickening of the lens of the eye that causes vision to become cloudy, opaque and distorted.
- Arthritis
- Inflammation of the joints that is accompanied by pain, stiffness, and movement problems; especially common in older adults.
- Multi Infarct Dementia
- Sporadic and progressive loss of intellectual functioning caused by repeated temporary obstruction of blood flow in cerebral arteries.
- Cognitive Pragmatics
- The culture based "software programs" of the mind. Congnitive pragmatics include reading and writing skills, language comprehension, educations qualifications, professional skills and also the type of knowledge about the self and life skills that help us to master or cope with life.
- Wisdom
- Expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life that permits excellent judgement about important matters.
- Parkinson Disease
- A chronic, progressive disease that characterized by muscle tremors slowing of movement, and partial facial paralysis.
- Selective Attention
- Focusing on a specific aspect of expierience that is relevant while ignoring others that are irrelevant.
- Explicit Memory
- Memory of facts and experiences that individuals conciously know and can state
- Divided Attention
- Concentrating on more than one activity at the same time.
- Major Depression
- A mood disorder in which the individual is deeply unhappy, demoralized, self-derogatory, and bored. The person does not feel well, loses stamina easily, has poor appetite, and is listeless and unmotivated. Major depression is so widespread that is has been called the "common cold" of mental disorders.
- Implicit memory
- Memory without conscious recollection;involves skills and routine procedures that are automatically performed.
- Dementia
- A global term for any neurological disorder in which the primary symptoms involve a deterioration of mental functioning.
- Sustained Attention.
- Focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event or other aspect of enviorment.
- Sourcer Memory
- The ability to remember where one learned something.
- Alzheimer disease
- A progressive, irreversible brain disorder charachterized by a gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language and eventually physical function.
- Selective optimism with comparison theory
- The theory that sucessful aging is related to three main factors: selection, optimization, and compensation.
- Possible selves
- What individuals might become. What they would like to become, and what they are afraid of becoming.
- Activity theory
- The thoery that the more active and involved older adults are, the more likely they are to be satisfied with their lives.
- Generational Inequity
- The view that our aging society is being unfair to its younger members because older adults pile up advantages by receiving inequitably large allocations of resources.
- Socioemotional selectivity
- The thoery that other adults become more selective about their social networks. Because they place a high value on emotional satisfaction older adults often spend more time with familiar individuals with whom they have had rewarding relationships.
- Convoy model of social relations
- Individuals go through life embedded in a personal network of individuals to whom they give and from whom they receive support.
- Ageism
- Prejudice against others because of their age, especially prejudice against older adults.
- Brain Death
- A nueroligical definition of death. A person is brain dead when all electrical activity of the brain has ceased for a specified period of time. A flat EEG recording is one criterion of brain death.
- Hospice
- A program committed to making the end of life as free from pain, anxiety, and depression possible. The goals of hospice contrast with those of a hospital, which are to cure disease and prolong life.
- prolonged greif
- Grief that involves enduring despair and is still unresolved over an extended period of time.
- Euthanasia
- The act of painlessly ending the lives of persons who are suffering from incurable diseases or severe disabilities sometimes called "mercy killing"
- Palliative Care
- Emphasized in hospice care. Involves reducing pain and suffering and helping individuals die with dignity.
- Dual process-model
- A model of coping with bereavement that emphasizes oscillation between two dimensions: 1)loss-oriented stressors,, and 2) restoration-oriented stressors.
- Passive euthanasia
- The witholding of available treatments , such as life sustaining devices, allowing the person to die.
- Active euthanasia
- Death induced deliberately, as by injecting a lethal dose of a drug.
- Grief
- The emotional numbness disbelief seperation anxiety, despair, sadness and loneliness that accompany the loss of someone we love.