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.