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Chapter 5
Adulthood and Old Age
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Psychology
11th Grade
06/08/2012

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hospice
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a facility designed to care for the special needs of the dying
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18-30
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the age range in which people are at your physical peak
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Stages of death & dying
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denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
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Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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a Swiss American psychiatrist who developed the a theory on the stages of dying
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health at a younger age, eating habits, exercise
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the factors that influence the patterns of a person's health and disease in old age
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generativity
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the desire, in middle age, to use one's accumulated wisdom to guide future generations
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22-28
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the age range in the stage of adulthood between the need to explore and the need to establish a stable lifestyle
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heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, arthritis
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chronic diseases of the elderly
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memory
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a decline in the nervous system in the elderly result in the difficulty of retrieving information from the:
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Erik Erikson
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a German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who claimed that a successful midlife transition for men is accompanied by the man becoming a mentor to a younger man
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thanatology
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the study of sying and death
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Harry Harlow
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n American psychologist who studied the rhesus monkey discovering that they preferred a surrogate mother that could provide contact comfort as opposed to one that just provided food
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