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| Middle Adulthood Age Range |
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| The lens loses its capacity to adjust to objects at varying distances entirely, causing "old eyes" |
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| A disease in which poor fluid drainage leads to a buildup of pressure within the eye, damaging the optic nerve |
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| Age-related changes in the skin |
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| The epidermis becomes less firmly attached to the dermis, fibers in the dermis thin, cells in both the epidermis and dermis decline in water content, and fat in the hypodermis diminishes, leading the skin to wrinkle, loosen, and feel dry |
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The midlife transition in which fertility declines
[In women it brings an end to reproductve capacity; in men, fertility diminishes but its retained] |
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| The end of menstruation and reproductive capacity |
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| To reduce the physical discomforts of menopause doctors may perscribe low doses of estrogen |
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| Severe age-related bone loss, greatly magnifies the risk of bone fractures |
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| Extreme competivieness, ambition, impatience, hostility, angry outbursts, and a sense of time pressure. More then twice as likely to development heart disease as compared to Type-B people |
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| A combination of three personal qualities control, commitment, and challange; these qualities help individuals cope adaptively to stress brought on by inevidable changes of life |
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| Crystallized Intelligence |
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| Skills that depend on accurate knowledge and experience, good judgement, and masterty of social conventions-- abilities acquired because they are valued by the individual's culture |
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| Depends on basic information processing skills--ability to detect relationships among visual stimuli, speed of analyzing information, and capacity of working memory. |
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| As neurons in the brain die, breaks in neural networks occur. The brain adapts by forming bypass-- new synaptic connections that go around the breaks by the less efficient |
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| An approach to age related cognitive slowing; 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 the interpret the information |
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| Practical Problem Solving |
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| All middle-aged adults encourter opportunities to display continured cognitive growth 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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- getting a fatal disease
- being too ill to maintain independence
- losing mental capacities
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| Appraising the situation as changeable, identifying the difficulty, and deciding what to do about it |
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