Chapter 12 Vocab

centenarian

A person age 100 or older.

liver spots

Harmless age spots that are flat gray, brown, or black, vary in size, and may appear on the face, hands, shoulders, or arms.

incontinence

Involuntary urination or defecation.

cataracts

Eye condition in which the lens of the eye thickens and causes cloudy or distorted vision.

glaucoma

Eye condition that involves damage to the optic nerve, and in which vision is distorted.

macular degeneration

Eye disease that causes people to have difficulty seeing objects inside the center of the field of vision.

periphery

The outer edges of the center field of vision.

diabetic retinopathy

Eye disease that involves damage to the blood vessels in the retina, which causes blurred vision.

presbycusis

Hearing loss associated with age, most often caused by damage to the inner ear.

tinnitus

A ringing sound in the ears.

sleep apnea

A condition in which the airway collapses or becomes blocked and causes a person to have pauses in breathing while sleeping.

dentures

Manufactured, custom-made teeth that replace natural teeth.

Medicare

A government health insurance program that helps older adults pay for medical costs.

Social Security

A government retirement fund that provides supplemental income to Americans who are at least 62 years of age and who have met employment contribution eligibility standards.

integrity versus despair

Erikson's final socio-emotional stage in which people either come to terms with their life or fall into despair over failings and unmet goals.

matriarch

The oldest and most influential female family member.

patriarch

The oldest and most influential male family member.

ageism

Bias against, or unfair treatment of, persons based on their age.

dementia

A brain disorder that involves cognitive declines and memory loss. this also impairs a person's ability to perform everyday tasks, such as self-dressing, cleaning, eating, and remembering where items are placed.

Alzheimer's disease

A progressive brain disorder that includes not only memory loss, but also progressively severe confusion.

hospice care

A form of care given by trained medical professionals, which focuses on making a person comfortable in his or her last days and hours of life.

Last Will and Testament

A legal document that gives explicit directions on how to divide a person's financial assets once he or she dies.

beneficiaries

People who are recipients of financial assets once a person dies.

living will

A legal document that informs family and medical workers of preferences for being kept alive by artificial means, or allows the decision to let them pass, when there is no chance of recovery.

intestate

To die without a will.

widow

A woman who has lost her husband to death.

widower

a man who has lost his wife to death.

bereavement

A term used to describe the sate of losing a loved one through death.

grief

the mental anguish or sadness that accompanies bereavement.

mourning

The period when people remember and grieve for the loss of a beloved one.

Changes

 

1. The physical changes that occur at this stage of life is that most people start to get wrinkles, their bones weaken, and their skin starts to sag.

2. The women get more assertive and the men get more nurturing. 

3. Eriksons stage of life in this stage is Generativity v. Stagnation.

4. If someone is becoming an adult and them immediatley gets shipped off to war, that impacts their life. They dont have time to be 23 years old and have fun with their friends. They have to step up and mature and fight for their country. When they come back and have to adjust to normal life they will have a harder time because the world will have advanced so much hat they dont know what to do. 

Chapter 10 Vocabulary

Social Clock- Cultural Specific timetable for events to occur
Insomnia- Inablility to sleep
Binge Drinking- Consumtion of an excessive amount of alcohol in a short amount of time.
Alcoholism-Addiction to alcohol
Fluid Intelligence-  general ability to think abstractly, reason, identify patterns, solve problems, and discern relationships.
Crystalized Intelligence- ability to use learned knowledge and experience.
Postformal State-fourth stage of formal operational thought.
Postconventnal Morality-third and final level of Kohlberg's moral development taxonomy where individuals enter the highest level of morale development. 
Intimancy versus Isolation- sixth stage of Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development.
Intimacy- close familiarity or friendship; closeness.
Secure Attachment style-

Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Climacteric- A critical period or event.

Testosterone- A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.

Estrogen- any group of steroid hormones that promote the development and maintence of female characteristics of the body. Such hormones are also produceed artifically for use in oral contraceptives or to treat menopausal and menstrual disorders.

Pregesterone- A steroid hormone released by the corpus luteum that stimulates the uterus to prepare for pregnancy

Perimenopause- The period of a womans life shortly before the occurrence of the menopause.

menopause- The ceasing of menstration. This usually happens when they are in the fortys or fiftys.

Visual Acuity- Sharpness of vision, measured by the ablility to discern letters or numbers at a given distance according to a fixed standard.

Presbyopia- Farsightedness caused by a loss of elasticity of the lens of the eye, occurring typically in middle and old age.

Sarcopenia- loss of muscle tissue as a natural part of the aging process.

Osteoperosis- A medical condition in which the bones become brittle and fragile from loss of tissue, typically as a result of hormonal changes, or defincey of calcium or vitamin D.

Benign- Not harmful in effect: in particular, of a tumor, not mailgnant.

Malignant- Tending to invade normal tissue or to recur after being removed.

Chemotherapy-  The treatment of disease by the use of chemical substances, especially the treatment of cancer by cytotoxic and other drugs.

Atherosclerosis- A disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of plaques of fatty material on their inner walls.

Inductive reasoning- Involves making conclusions by moving from detailed facts to general theory.involves

makingconclusionsbymovingfromdetailedfactstogeneraltheory.

Deductive Reasoning- uses general observation or theory to reach a detailed conclusion.

Episodic memories- Include personal experiences or events such as remembering where you left your car keys.

Semantic Memories- focus on knowledge such as how to change a flat tire on a car

Generativity Versus Stagnation- time for figuring out how to leave leagaciesof ones self to the next generation

My Future

I am planning to attend college at Texas Tech University. I plan to go there after I graduate because my mom doesn't want me to go to TCC. She wants me to start at a university because she didnt go to college so she wants the best for me.  I think it will cost around 25,000 dollars to go there each year.  I plan to go there for 4 years and major in Elementary education and Minor in History. I plan to apply for as many scholarships and loans as possible to make it easier on my mom. I have already applied for about 3 scholarships and I have already made my FAFSA account. I have not really talked to my mom about how we will pay for college but I can assume she will want to pay for it. I plan to begin the dissucssion for how I will pay for college this summer after I go and visit Tech.

 I plan to apply for student loans but the only part I'm worried about is how much debt I will be in when it is over.

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

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Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is a very dangerous type of child abuse. It is where the caregiver (usually the mother) states that their child has a life threatening disease so they can get medicine and unnecessary surgeries for their child.

The article about Hope Ybarra is crazy. She made up a lie that she had cancer again for the third time and then she said that her daughter had cerebral palsy. Her daughter, being at a very young age, underwent surgery and medical care that could have killed her.

I think she did this because she wanted attention. In the article she sated that she "watched" her mom do this, and her mom denied it. She claimed she was pregnant with twins, her husband had doubts but always believed her. When she got caught, she believed she did nothing wrong. Her children were severley abused with all of the unneccesary treatment. They will never get their childhood back. Her husband later divorced her while she is in prison. Her release date will be in October of 2019.

Reflect on Respect

A healthy relationship is a good relationship. In a healthy relationship both partners respect each other, have boundaries, they are both positive, and there is trust between both partners.

If I were in an unhealthy relationship I would try and end things the best way I could. I would try and let them down easy. If the realtionship became abusive I would contact local authorities, and explain to them what was going on so I could leave. If one of my friends were in an unhealthy relationship I would try and be there for her as best as I could and I wouldnt let her see the ex-Ppartner in the breakup. If she went to go see him I would be there with her because it is not safe.

Break up Script:

Who: James and Angela
Where: Starbucks
When: The middle of the day
Why: James has been calling Angela horrible names. He called her fat and ugly. And he was starting to become abusive.

What not to do: DO NOT:

• meet in a secluded area
• Meet by yourself
• Not tell anyone your going

Always:

• Tell someone your breaking up with someone
• meet in a public place during the day. 
• always remember it is never your fault

Teenage Behaviors

This video is about a teenage girl named Ally, who got caught sexting. Ally could not have sent those provacative pictures to that boy. She should have known how much she is worth and shouldn't have steeped that low. If it were me in that situation I wouldv'e said no.

Bullying

Verbal- Verbal bullying is when an individual uses words or insults to gain power over an individual. For example, A group of girls calling another girl ugly and promising her popularity to do things for them.


Social- Social bullying is often referred to as relational bullying because it involves hurting someones reputation or feelings. For example, a group of friends leaving somebody out because they don't like what they are wearing or just for the fun of it.


Physical- Physical bullying is any bullying that hurts someone's body or possession's. For example, a group of jocks picking on a nerd and dunking his head in the toilet.



Cyber- Cyber bullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.

Characteristics of Thinking

Egocentrism-

• They tend to believe they are the center of the universe. 
• Everything revolves around them
• "Mom and dad are fighting so I must have done something wrong."

Centration-

• They focus on only one aspect of a problem, the most obvious or the one with the most attention.
• When the action slows, so does their attention
• "Action heroes on TV fighting attract a child because the child likes fast movement"

Inability to Conserve-

• They don't understand that an amount stays the same unless you add or take away something from it.
• The child's thinking is limited by their perceptions
• "If we roll a ball of play dough into a snake shape the child will think that amount of play dough had changed"

Animistic Thinking-

• Attributing will and desire to non-living objects.
• "Keisha may believe that her teddy bear loves her and wants to be covered before he can go to sleep."

Supernatural Fears-

• They experince confusion distinguishing reality and fantasy, so fear usually comes into play.
• Will experince fears related to the dark.
• "Theres a monster under my bed"

Classification-

• May have some difficulty classifying objects by a shared attribute such as similar color, shape, size, or function.
• "the child may be asked to put together the things that belong together and actually determine a classification system. "

Difficulty Identifying Transitions-

• attend to the first and last items in events
• "Think of walking on a beach and making tracks in the sand where we stepped; the tracks make it easier for us to follow the path we took. "

Ants on a Log