| A | B |
|---|
| empty nest syndrome | ”a possible reaction to the departure from home of a woman's last child” |
| decremental model of aging | ”the idea that physical and mental decline is inevitable with age” |
| thanatology | ”study of dying and death” |
| senile dementia | ”memory loss, forgetfulness, disorientation, altered personality, impaired attention” |
| crystallized intelligence | ”ability to use accumulated knowledge in appropriate situations” |
| fluid intelligence | ”ability to generate new hypotheses” |
| age-thirty crisis | ”major transitional period in men's lives” |
| ageism | ”discrimination against the elderly” |
| menopause | ”biological event in which women's production of sex hormones drops” |
| Alzheimer's disease | ”most common form of senile dementia” |
| hospice | ”facility designed for the special needs of dying” |
| stagnation | ”characterized by the desire to recapture the past” |
| assimilation | “process of fitting objects and experiences into your mental representation of the world” |
| accommodation | “adjusting your conceptual framework of the world to fit newly observed events and experiences” |
| socialization | “the process of learning the rules of behavior of one's culture” |
| schema | “conceptual framework used to make sense of the world” |
| conservation | ‘the principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance changes” |
| separation anxiety | ”a common reaction among infants when the mother is absent” |
| sublimation | ”the process, according to Sigmund Freud, of redirecting sexual impulses into learning tasks” |
| rooting reflex | ”an infant's response in turning toward the source of touching anywhere near his or her mouth” |
