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ADULTHOODObjectives 25-33
Daniel Lee
Lucas ChungRicky Mejia
Bryant Rodriguez
Magaly Mendez
Ruktawan Yuttawongs
Christopher Marroquin
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Physical Activities and Aging Viewpoints
Physical activities in early and middle
adulthood is not constrained by agebut perception.
Societys views on aging determine
the reaction to aging.
Ex. Eastern cultures respect and
power come with age in Western
culture we try to preserve youth as
best we can.
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Menopause
The ending of a womans menstrual
cycle around the age of 50.
Usually doesnt cause psychological
damage like portrayed in media
When asked if women feel better
than they have in years one-fourth ofpremenopausal said yes but two-
thirds of those who experiences
menopause said yes.
Perception is reality
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Men and Menopause?
Men do not experience a direct
form of male menopause but
with age experience decline in
sperm count, testosterone
levels, and speed of erectionand ejaculation
If testosterone drops too fast or
far possible side effects are
depression, irritability,
insomnia, impotence, orweakness. Treatment with
testosterone is available.
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Physical Changes in Later Life
Life expectancy is the age a
person is expected to live. It can
range from just 33 in Swaziland
to 84 years in Andorra.
Sensory abilities can declinerapidly in late adulthood.
Muscle strength, reaction time,
stamina and vision and hearing
all decline in strength.
For example, a 20 year old cansee 3 times better than a 65
year old.
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Health and Old Age
There is both good news and
bad news about growing old, in
terms of health.
Older people tend to be moreprone to illnesses such as
cancer and pneumonia, but
they also tend to suffer from
colds and flus, less often than
younger people due to their life-long accumulation of
antibodies.
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Dementia and Alzheimers
Many old-age adults suffer fromdementia, which is mentalerosion, or the loss of braincells.
Alzheimers disease is a brain
disorder that is characterized bythe gradual deterioration ofmemory, reasoning, andlanguage.
This disorder is caused by the
decline in the productivity ofacetylcholine, the lack of which,can impair memory andthinking.
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Aging & Memory
Memory tends to decrease with age, but studies have found that weremember events in our teens and twenties more than any other events.
Forgetting also tends to depend on the type of information you are trying
to remember.
Young people tend to be better at recall tests, while there is no difference
between younger and older people in recognition tests.
It has also been found that prospective memory (remember to..) stays
strong in old age, while time-based memory
(remember the meeting at 3PM) is somewhat challenging for older
people.
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Aging and Intelligence
Cross-Sectional Studies is a study in which people of different ages are compared with
one another. Researchers consistently find that older adults give fewer correct
answers than do younger adults. This shows that intelligence slowly declines after
young adulthood. (You cant teach an old dog new tricks)
Longitudinal studyis the research in which the same people are restudied and
retested over a long period. After retesting the same people over a period of years,they found that until late in life, intelligence remained stable. Compared with the
cross-sectional studies, we found that cross-sectional studies compares two different
eras where learning situations might have been different.
Researchers came up with two views.
Crystallized intelligence, one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skill, tends to growwith age, such as earning more Ph.D's and public speaking (congressmen, president,
etc.).
Fluid intelligence, one's ability to reason speedily and abstractly, tends to decrease
during late adulthood (losing recall memory and processing speed).
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The Midlife Transition is the crisis; a struggle time period where most peopleexperience at the age of forties.
The crisis does not have to follow tightly to ones chronological age. Unpleasentful events can occur at any random age in ones life time.
Examples of the midlife crisis includes:-Losing jobs-Financial problems
-Divorce
The social clockis the idea of events that can occur at the right time.Examples of the social clock includes:
-The right time to find job-The right time to get marry and have kids-The right tiem to retire.
Adulthood Ages and Stages
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Adulthoods Commitments
According to Erikson, the two basic tasks of adulthood are achievingintimacyand generativity
Freud believed the healthy adult is one who can love and work.
Evolutionary psychologists believe that because commitment hadsurvival value for our ancestors, parents who stay together, cooperate,
and raise children to a child bearing age have a better chance ofpassing along these genes of posterity
Settling into a career path is time consuming but satisfying workalsocorrelates with life satisfaction.
Human societies have nearly always included a relatively monogamousbond.
Marriage couples usually last longer when the couples marry after theage of 20 and are well educated.
Couples who live together before marrying have a higher divorce ratethan those who do not.
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Adulthoods Commitments cont.
Of those who divorce, 75% eventually remarry. Marriage is a predictor of happiness, sexual satisfaction, health, and income. Lesbian couples report greater well being than singles.
As chidren get older and demand more time and energy, satisfaction with themarriage itself decreases, particularly among employed women
For most couples, the childrens leaving home produces an increase satisfactions.
Reasearch studies of women who are not employed have found that a womens
satisfaction in life depends on the quality of her experiene in her lifes role.
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Well-Being Across the Life Span
People at all ages shows stability in feelings of happiness and satisfication.
Teenagers typically come dow from elation or up from gloomy in less than an hour.
For most people, old age offers less intense joy but greater contentment andincreased spirituality.
Through life spand, the feelings of happiness stay stable at the average level ofsatisfications.
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Death and Dying
Usually, the separation from a
spouse is the hardest to recover
from.
This is especially true when death
comes too soon and unexpectedly,
but grieving is shorter lived when
death occurs late as is expected.
The range of reactions to a loved
ones death is wider and varies by
culture.
Some cultures encourage publicweeping and wailing
Many others prefer to hide grief.
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Death and Dying cont.
Those who express the strongest grief immediately do not purge their griefmore quickly
For most, therapy and self-help groups do not enhance the healing powerof time and friends.
Grieving spouses who talk to others often or receive counseling adjust nobetter than those who grieve privately
Terminally ill and bereaved people do not go through predictable stages,such as denial, anger, and so forth.
Given similar loses, some people greivehard and long, other more lightlyand briefly.
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Do we go through gradual, cumulative growth?
Or do we differ as a butterfly differs from a
caterpillar-a difference of distinct stages?
Those who emphasize learning and experience believe in
a slow, continuous shaping process
Those who emphasize biological maturation believe in asequence of genetically predisposed stages or steps.
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Although research casts doubt on the idea that
life proceeds through neatly defined, age-linked
stages, the concept of stage remains useful. The
human brain does experience growth spurts
during childhood and puberty that correspond
roughly to Piaget's stages.