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DiseasesRelatedto Aging

Alzheimer's Senile Dementia

Adulthood and Aging

Social Clock:

Emerging Adulthood:

Stages of Adulthood

Early Adulthood

Middle Adulthood

Late Adulthood

Menopause: Vision:

Hearing: Smell:

Physical Changes inAdulthood

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Aging and Memory:

Social Changes

Erikson and Generativity:

Intelligence

Fluid Intelligence: Crystallized Intelligence:

Work: Love:

Marriage: Children:

Commitment

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Empty Nest:

Overall Life Satisfaction:

Ageism:

Death and DyingReactions to Death: Stages of Death and Dying:

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Nature and Nurture of Gender

Role:

Gender Role:

Gender Identity:

Gender-typing:

X Chromosone

• Found in both _______

and _____________• Females have _____;

males have ______

• An X Chromosone fromeach parents produces a __________ child

Y Chromosone

• Found only in _______

• When paired with an XChromosone, producesa ________ child

Testosterone

• Most important of the

male _______________• Both _______ and ___________ have it

• Additional testosteronestimulates growth ofmale _____ ___________ anddevelopments of male ___________________

Social Learning Theory

• theory that we learn _________________ byobserving and imitating

and by being ____________ or ____________

Gender Schema Theory

• theory that children learnfrom their ____________a concept of what it

means to be _______ and _________ and that they _____________________

•  _____________________

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Nature Argument:

Nurture Argument:

Challenging Western Assumptions of Gender Role

Study Challenges… 

Best et al (1994)

Pontius (1997)

Roscoe (1998)

Sugihara and

Katsurada (1999)

Sex-Role Stereotyping:

Parental Role and the Effect on Gender:

Interactionist Approach:

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Personality

Personality:

Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality (Sigmund Freud – he is back!)

  Believed that people are driven to seek _________ (_____) and avoid ________ (________________)

  Three Levels of Awareness

o  Conscious:

o  Preconscious:

o  Unconscious:

  Three Part Personality Structure

o  Id:

o  Ego:

o  Superego:

Neo-Freudian Theories of Personality: agree with many of Freud’s basic ideas, but they differ in one or moreimportant ways

Carl Jung: Collective Unconscious

  Two main personality attitudes: __________________ and ___________________

  Four styles of gathering information

o  Sensing:

o  Intuiting:

o  Thinking:

o  Feeling:

  These are the basis for the ____________________________________________

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Karen Horney and The Need for Security

  Focused on dealing with our need for _______________

  If security is not achieved then three neurotic personality patterns could develop

o  Moving toward people:

o  Moving against people:

o  Moving away from people:

Humanistic Approach to Personality

  Maslow: _____________ of the ____________________________

o  Humanists emphasize _____________________________________ in one’s actions, the

 ____________________ of the individual person, and _________________

o  Self-Actualization:

  Roger’s Self Theory 

o  Carl Rogers dealt with college students with ________________________________

  Believed that people need ______________________: to be _____________________

and have the ______________________ of others

  Our parents set up ______________________________: behaviours and attitudes

which give us positive regard

   __________________________________: acceptance and approval without

 ______________

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Personality Assessment

  Personality Inventories:

  Projective Tests:

o  Rorschach Inkblots Test:

o  Thematic Apperception Tests:

Rotter’s Locus of Control 

  Locus of control is a person’s ___________________ of the extent to which he/she _______________

what happens to him/her

o  External locus of control refers to the perception that _________________ or

 ____________________ beyond your control determine your fate

  May contribute to _____________________________ (a sense of hopelessness in which

one thinks that he/she is unable to __________________________________________)

o  Internal locus of control refers to the perception that

 ________________________________________________________

  People with an internal locus of control are _________________________ and

 __________________ better off