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- This type of memory declines from the 20s to the 60s, but adults can develop compensatory strategies.
- (hyphenated) Expectations or the belief in one's ability to succeed.
- (2 words) A behavior pattern associated with extreme competitiveness, ambition, impatience, hostility, angry outbursts, and a sense of time pressure.
- May be directly responsible for severe bone loss and fragile bones.
- Evidenced by frequent angry outbursts and associated with a high risk of cardiovascular and other health problems.
- Irregular heartbeat. If it persists it can prevent the heart from pumping enough blood and result in faintness.
- (2 words) This __________ of aging has historically rated aging men more positively than aging women.
- Problems reading small print which may be corrected with bifocals.
- This type of intelligence depends on basic information-processing skills, e.g., analytical speed, memory, etc.
- More than 1/3 of U.S. midlife deaths are associated with this disease.
- The midlife transition in which fertility declines or results in an end to reproductive capacity in women.
- Research focusing on this characteristic focus on how much information adults can taken into their mental systems at once; the extent to which they can attend selectively, ignoring irrelevant information; and the ease with which they can adapt or switch tasks.
- An individual with this attribute is likely to cope adaptively with stress and manifest three personal qualities: control, commitment, and challenge.
- This activity has physical and psychological benefits, e.g., reducing stress and promoting health.
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- Refers to "old hearing" especially at the highest sound frequencies. Hearing aides may be helpful.
- This form of intelligence relies on prior knowledge, judment, and experience.
- A therapy prescribed to reduce the physical discomfort of menopause.
- (2 words) The view that information is lost at each step through the cognitive system resulting in a slowdown of the whole system.
- (2 words) The view that declines in information processing are related to breakdown of neural connections.
- The end of menstruation and reproductive capacity which may be associated with "hot flashes," night sweats, and sexual disinterest.
- (hyphenated) This coping style involves Identifying and appraising problems, as well as, choosing and implementing potential solutions.
- (hyphenated) This coping style is Internal, private and involves controling distress when the situation can’t be changed.
- Associated with resistance to inferference from irrelevant information. This become more difficult to maintain with age.
- A procedure to relieve arterial blockage by threading a needle-thin catheter into a coronary artery and inflating a balloon to flatten fatty deposits, so that blood flows more freely.
- A disease in which poor fluid drainage leads to a buildup of pressure within the eye, damaging the optic nerve.
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