Chapter 9: Late Adulthood Flashcards Preview

Human Behavior 2 > Chapter 9: Late Adulthood > Flashcards

Flashcards in Chapter 9: Late Adulthood Deck (28)
Loading flashcards...
1
Q

Dependency ratio

A

A demographic indicator that expresses the degree of demand placed on society by the young and aged combined. The more old people the more demand placed on society to help them.

2
Q

Social gerontology

A

The social science that studies human aging.

3
Q

Psychosocial theoretical perspectives on social gerontology:

Disengagement theory

A

Suggests that as elderly individuals grow older, they gradually decrease their social interactions and ties and become increasingly self-preoccupied.

4
Q

Psychosocial theoretical perspectives on social gerontology:

Active theory

A

States that higher levels of activity and involvement are directly related to higher levels of life satisfaction in elderly people.

5
Q

Psychosocial theoretical perspectives on social gerontology:

Continuity theory

A

Individuals adapt to changes by using the same coping styles they have used throughout the life course, and they adopt new roles that substitute for roles they lost because of age.

Individuals lifestyle tends to stay the same or reflect earlier lifestyles.

6
Q

Psychosocial theoretical perspectives on social gerontology:

Social construction theory

A

Suggests that ways of understanding are shaped by the cultural, social, historical, political, and economic conditions in which knowledge is developed, thus values are associated with various ways of understanding.

Conceptions about age arise through interactions of an individual with their social environment.

7
Q

Psychosocial theoretical perspectives on social gerontology:

Feminist theories

A

Suggest that gender is a key factor in understanding a person’s aging experience.

8
Q

Psychosocial theoretical perspectives on social gerontology:

Social exchange theory

A

Built on notion that an exchange of resources takes place in all interpersonal interactions.

9
Q

Psychosocial theoretical perspectives on social gerontology:

Life course perspective

A

Human development is characterized by multidimensional, multifunctionality, plasticity, and continuity in the persons experiences of gains and losses over the life course.

10
Q

Psychosocial theoretical perspectives on social gerontology:

Age stratification

A

Falls into the tradition of the life course perspective. Stratification is a sociological concept that describes a given hierarchy that exists in a given society. Society is structured around age and changes in age changes roles we play in society.

11
Q

Genetic theories of biological aging

A

Propose that there are genetically determined differences between species in th maximum life span.

12
Q

Programmed aging theories

A

Propose that cells can not replicate themselves indefinitely. It slows down as we become older.

13
Q

Random error theories

A

Physiological aging occurs because of damaging processes that become more frequent in late adulthood but are not part of the genetic unfolding process.

14
Q

Molecular/cellular theories of biological aging

A

Aging is caused by molecular or cellular processes.

15
Q

System levels theories of biological aging

A

Propose that aging is caused by processes operating across biological systems.

16
Q

Mortality rates

A

The frequency at which death occurs within a population.

17
Q

Morbidity

A

The incidence of disease.

18
Q

Ego integrity verses ego dispair

A

Integrity involves the ability to make peace with one’s “one and only” life cycle and to find unity within the world.

19
Q

Keeper of meaning

A

Takes on task of passing on the traditions of the past to the next generation.

20
Q

Fluid intelligence

A

Capacity for abstract reasoning and involves such things as the ability to respond or memorize quickly.

21
Q

Crystallized intelligence

A

Based on accumulated learning and included ability to reflect and recognize.

22
Q

Intentional memory

A

Events that you plan to remember.

23
Q

Incidental memory

A

Relates to facts learned without the intention to retain and recall.

24
Q

Dementia

A

Brain disease in which the cognitive abilities deteriorate over time.

25
Q

Delirium

A

Impairment of consciousness.

26
Q

Reminiscence

A

Thinking and remember and tell stories of the past.

27
Q

Power of attorney

A

Legal arrangement by which a person appoints another individual to manage his or her financial and legal affairs.

28
Q

Life review

A

Task of late adulthood that is a process of evaluating and making sense of one’s life.