Chapter 5 Adulthood and Old Age

Prejudice of discrimination of the elderly

• Ageism

• Sexism

• Dementia

• Cruelty to elderly

The idea that progressive physical and mental decline are inevitable with age

• Ageism

• Decremental model of aging

• Generativity

• Stagnation

The desire to use one’s accumulated wisdom to guide future generations

• Generativity

• Integrity

• Inheritance

• Stagnation

Decreases in mental abilities experienced by some people in old age

• Dementia

• Forgetfulness

• Slipped your mindness

• Alzheimer's

Refers to the ability to solve abstract relational problems and to generate new hypotheses

• Fluid intelligence

• Crystallized intelligence

• Intelligence intelligence

• Formal operational stage

The study of dying and death

• Thanosology

• Thanatology

• Gerontology

• Aging

The ability to use accumulated knowledge and learning in appropriate situations

• Fluid intelligence

• Crystallized intelligence

• Intelligence test

• Formalized intelligence

Which one is not one of the top three causes of death in later adulthood?

• HIV/AIDS

• Cancer

• Cirrhosis

• Heart disease

Learning how to get along in good times and bad is most important in which relationship?

• Parent/child

• Husband/wife

• Student/teacher

• Boss/employee

Which Levinson stage notes that men reexamine their marriage and life choices and wonder if it's too late to change?

• Middle Adulthood

• Entering the adult world

• Age 30 crisis

• Age 60 crisis