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Date or acquaintance rape
Coercive sexual activity directed at someone with whom the perpetrator is at least casually acquainted
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Romantic Love
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- strong sexual and infatuation components and
- predominates in the early period of love
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Affectionate Love
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- an individual desires to have the other person
- near and has a deep, caring affection for the other person
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Consummate Love
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- the strongest form of love that involves all
- three dimensions
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Infatuated
passion mostly with intimacy and commitment low
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Affectionate Love
high intimacy and commitment but low passion
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Fatuous Love
as when one person worships another from a distance
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Report Talk
talk that is designed to give information and includes publib speaking
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Rapport Talk
the language of conversation; it is a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships
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Contemporary Life Events Approach
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- how life events influence an individuals
- development depends not only on the life event itself but on mediating factors
- (physical health and family support) and adaptation
- to life events also life stage
- context and the socio-historical
- context
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Cohorts
group of individuals born in the same year or time period
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Social Clock
the timetable according to which individuals are expected to accomplish life's tasks, such as getting married, having children, or establishing themselves in a career
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Empty Nest Syndrome
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- a decrease in marital satisfaction after
- children leave home, because parents derive considerable satisfaction from
- their children
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Arthritis
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- Infammation of the joints that is accompanied by
- pain, stiffness, and movement problems; especially common in older adults
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Osteoporosis
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- A chronic condition that involves an extensive
- loss of bone tissue and is the main reason many older adults walk with a marked
- stoop. Women are especially vulnerable
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Glaucoma
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- involves damage to the optic nerve because of
- the pressure created by a buildup of fluid in the eye (eye drops as treatment)
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Macular Degeneration
- a disease that involves deterioration of the
- macula of the retina, which corresponds to the focal center of the visual field
- (laser surgery if detected early, but overall leads to vision impairment)
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Cataracts
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- a thickening of the lens of the eye that causes
- vision to become cloudy, opaque, and distorted (glasses or simple surgical
- procedure)
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Episodic Memory
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- the retention of information about the where and
- when of life’s happening
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Semantic Memory
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- A person’s knowledge about the world—including a
- person’s fields of expertise, general academic knowledge of the sort learned in
- school, and “everyday knowledge”
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Source Memory
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- is the ability to remember where one learned
- something.
- o
- Awkward situations can occur, when an older
- forget who told the joke and retells it to the source
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Selective Attention
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- is focusing on a specific aspect of experience
- that is relevant while ignoring others that are irrelevant
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Divided Attention
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- Concentrating on more than one activity at the
- same time
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Sustained Attention (vigilance)
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- Focused and extended engagement with an object,
- task, event, or other aspect of the environment
- o
- Episodic memory declines more than semantic
- memory in older adultsr
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Dementia
- A global term for any neurological disorder in
- which the primary symptoms involve a deterioration of mental functioning
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Alzheimers Disease
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- A progressive, irreversible brain disorder
- characterized by a gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and
- eventually physical function
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Activity Theory
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- the theory that the more active and involved
- older adults are, the more likely they are to be satisfied with their lives
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Ageism
Prejudice against others because of their age, especially prejudice against older adults
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Generativity vs. Stagnation
Generativity---encompasses adults desire to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation
Stagnation--develops when individuals feel they have done nothing for the next gen
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Socio-emotional Selectivity Theory
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- A theory that older adults become more selective
- about their social networks. Because of
- emotional satisfaction, older adults often spend more time with familiar
- individuals with whom they have had rewarding relationships.
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Generational Inequity
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- The view that our aging society is being unfair
- to its younger members because older adults pile up advantages by receiving
- inequitably large allocations of resources
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Integrity vs. Despair
During late adulthood, involves reflecting on the past and either piecing together a positive review or conducting that one's life has not been well spent
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Life Review
Prominent in integrity vs. despair
-invovles looking back at one's life experiences, evaluating them, interpreting them and often reinerpreting them
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