LifespanWinter2011Chapter15Puzzle

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Across

  1. This type of memory declines from the 20s to the 60s, but adults can develop compensatory strategies.
  2. (hyphenated) Expectations or the belief in one's ability to succeed.
  3. (2 words) A behavior pattern associated with extreme competitiveness, ambition, impatience, hostility, angry outbursts, and a sense of time pressure.
  4. May be directly responsible for severe bone loss and fragile bones.
  5. Evidenced by frequent angry outbursts and associated with a high risk of cardiovascular and other health problems.
  6. Irregular heartbeat. If it persists it can prevent the heart from pumping enough blood and result in faintness.
  7. (2 words) This __________ of aging has historically rated aging men more positively than aging women.
  8. Problems reading small print which may be corrected with bifocals.
  9. This type of intelligence depends on basic information-processing skills, e.g., analytical speed, memory, etc.
  10. More than 1/3 of U.S. midlife deaths are associated with this disease.
  11. The midlife transition in which fertility declines or results in an end to reproductive capacity in women.
  12. 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.
  13. An individual with this attribute is likely to cope adaptively with stress and manifest three personal qualities: control, commitment, and challenge.
  14. This activity has physical and psychological benefits, e.g., reducing stress and promoting health.

Down

  1. Refers to "old hearing" especially at the highest sound frequencies. Hearing aides may be helpful.
  2. This form of intelligence relies on prior knowledge, judment, and experience.
  3. A therapy prescribed to reduce the physical discomfort of menopause.
  4. (2 words) The view that information is lost at each step through the cognitive system resulting in a slowdown of the whole system.
  5. (2 words) The view that declines in information processing are related to breakdown of neural connections.
  6. The end of menstruation and reproductive capacity which may be associated with "hot flashes," night sweats, and sexual disinterest.
  7. (hyphenated) This coping style involves Identifying and appraising problems, as well as, choosing and implementing potential solutions.
  8. (hyphenated) This coping style is Internal, private and involves controling distress when the situation can’t be changed.
  9. Associated with resistance to inferference from irrelevant information. This become more difficult to maintain with age.
  10. 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.
  11. A disease in which poor fluid drainage leads to a buildup of pressure within the eye, damaging the optic nerve.


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