| A | B |
|---|
| senescence | natural physical decline brought on my aging |
| regular exercise | increases cardiac fitness,lung capacity & longevity |
| Heart disease, acidents, suicide,AIDS, Cancer & violence | leading causes of death |
| Obesity | affects 12% of the population aged 18-29 |
| Stress | the response to events that threaten or challenge an individual |
| Sweating, increased blood pressure,heart rate,respiration,susceptibility to illness,& pshycological consequnces | outcomes produced by stress |
| Primary appraisal | assessment of an eventto determine whether its implications ae positive, negative or neutral |
| Secondary appraisal | assessment of whether one's coping abilities and resources are adequate to overcome the harm, threator challenge posed by the original stressor |
| Psychosomatic disorder | medical problem caused by the interaction of psychological, emotional & physical difficulties |
| Coping | effort to reduce or tolerate the threats that lead to stress |
| Problem-focused, emoton-focused, or defense | forms of coping |
| hardiness | personality characteristic associated with a lower rate of stress related illness |
| Adulthood cognitive theorists | Labouvie-Vief,Perry,Schaie,Sternberg |
| practical & emotional | different types of intelligence |
| formal & post-formal thought | Piaget |
| Labouvie-Vief | relativistic & dialectical thinking |
| Perry | dualistic, mutiple & relativistic thinking |
| Schaie | 5 stages - acquisitive, achieving, responsible, execuative & reintegrative |
| Sternberg | triarchic theory of intelligence |
| academic disidentification | lack of personal identification with an academic domain |
