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Chap. 17-22
Nursing 200
Question | Answer |
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Dialectual Thought | considers both sides simultaneoulsy - thesis vs. antithesis; forms synthesis |
organ reserve | extra capacity of the organs to withstand moments of prolonged stress |
Who has more problems with alchohal and physical abuse? | people/partners that cohabit |
What things impact senesence? | genes enviornment and personal choices |
What is the first thing in the body to change? | skin - collagen decreases 1% per year; loss of elasticity; usually starts in 20s |
Why does the hair turn gray? | decrease in the # of pigment(color) blood supply |
When is the most common time to have a baby? | young adulthood; as late as 50; try to before 30 |
Who has a higher rate of violent deaths? | YOUNG adult male |
Social Clock | culturally determined appropriate times for life events to occur; some influenced by SES |
Love's 3 basic components? | passion, intamacy, commitment |
Ages of Middle Adulthood | 35-65 |
After 10 yrs of marriage why are they happier? | Children are more independent; financial security; sense of equity; increase time for sharing |
Explain Compainioate Grandparents | choose how and when to interact; keep in background to maintain harmony; spoiled but don't disipline |
What is the most satisfying type of grandparent? | Compainionate Grandparents |
When are kids more foregiving and for what? | later in life; forgive parents for their limitations |
Novice | guided by formal procedures and rules |
Expertise | someone notably more skilled and knowledgable than the average person |
Crystalized Intelligence | education and experiences; accumulation of facts, information, knowledge |
Fluid Intelligence | flexible reasoning; deductive reasoning, abstract thinking, speed of thinking |
How would one change the fact that they are overweight? | Change their lifestyle |
Morbidity | rate of diseases of all kinds chronic and acute in a given population |
Mortality | number of deaths each year per 1000 people in a given population |
Vitality | how healthy and energetic one is |
Female Reproductive changes? | menopause (42-58); one year after last menses; rapid decrease in hormonal levels |
Age of Prime of Life? | 20-35 |
Social exchange theory? | marriage is an arrangment in which each person contributes somthing useful to the other |
4 gateways to attraction | *Frequent exposure, aparent availability, abscence of exclusion criteria, physical attraction |
Explain men's friendships? | shared activities, common interests, discussions center of external matters |
Life events that foster cognative development | parenthood, intimate relationships, careers; job loss, religious experience, loss of a loved one |
How is Generativity achieved? | through employment and parenthood |
objective thought | a kind of thinking that follows abstract impersonal logic; ex. data |
subjective thought | thinking that arises from personal experiences and perceptions of an individual |
post-formal thought | adult thinking requires more flexibility; practicle flexible and dialectical; less abstract, less absolute; recognizes views are one of many |
drug abuse | Ingestion of a drug that impaires physical, cognitive, or social well being |
senescence | the state of physical decline in which the body gradually becomes less strong and efficiant with age |
Homeostasis | = equilibrium; body adjusts to energy needs to maintain equilibrium |
primary aging | inevitable age related changes, everyone experiences this, genetic differences vary its timing |
secondary aging | the age-related changes that take place as a consequence of a person's behavior or a societies failure to eliminate unhealthy choices |