Week 10 - Middle adulthood

Question 1

Overall, for most people, _______is the sense that declines most, because:

Answer 1

Vision.

The lens of the eye enlarges and becomes less flexible and less transparent, making it more difficult to perceive images in sharp focus and to see in dim light. The number of rods (light receptors) and cones (colour receptors) in the eye diminishes to about half by age 60, further limiting vision

Question 2

Lasik (and monovision correction) can correct problems with _______and ________vision

Answer 2

distance and readin

Question 3

Hearing declines in midlife for about ___% of adults in developed countries, especially for high-pitched sound

Answer 3

13

Question 4

climacteric

Answer 4

changes in the reproductive system that occur in middle adulthood; for women, the cessation of ovulation and menstruation (menopause), and for men, the gradual decline in the number and quality of sperm

Question 5

atherosclerosis

Answer 5

condition where plaque builds up in coronary arteries, causing the passage of blood in arteries to become constricted

Question 6

_____ and ____, along with early detection, have resulted in a 5-year survival rate for cancer of 68% in Australia

Answer 6

Chemo and radiation therapy

Question 7

However, survival rates vary greatly depending on the type of cancer. In Australia in 2017, lung cancer accounted for 18.9% of all cancer deaths, followed by breast cancer in women (14.9%), prostate cancer (12.7%), colorectal cancer (8.6%) and pancreatic cancer (6.1%)

Question 8

type of intelligence that involves information-processing abilities such as short-term memory, the ability to discern relationships between visual stimuli and the speed of synthesising new information

Answer 8

fluid intelligence

Question 9

crystallised intelligence

Answer 9

accumulation of a person’s culturally based knowledge, language and understanding of social conventions

Question 10

organisational careers vs protean careers

Answer 10

Org model, the employee stayed in the same field, and usually with the same employer, throughout his or her working life.

the protean career is flexible, changeable and idiosyncratic. Rather than remaining with one company, the person in the protean career path changes paths frequently in the course of their working life

Question 11

3 that improve during the 50s

Answer 11

Self-acceptance
Autonomy
Environmental mastery