Senescence signs
(biological changes due to growing old)
Primary aging
Secondary aging
Physical signs of aging
Middle-age spread
Physical signs of aging continued
Health
Chronic disorders
Health habits: Exercise
BMI
Health habits: Obesity
What is intelligence?
Cross-sectional research
Longitudinal research (bayley and oden)
Flynn effect
Cross-sequential research (seattle longitudinal study)
Measuring health: Mortality
Measuring health: Morbidity
Measuring health: Disability
Measuring health: Vitality
Fluid intelligence
Crystalized intelligence
Three forms of intelligence
Analytic intelligence
Creative intelligence
Practical intelligence
Selective gains and losses
Selective optimization with compensation
Expertise
Erikson's Psychosocial stages of adulthood
Eric recognized that
The social clock
"Midlife crisis"
The big five personality traits
Gender convergence
Why gender convergence?
Generativity vs. Stagnation
Work in adulthood
Social convoy
Marriage
Divorce
Re-marriage
Life span and life expectancy
The young, the old, and the oldest old
The oldest old
Physical development
Sensory changes: Vision
Sensory changes: Hearing
Major body systems
Theory of aging: Wear and tear
Theory of aging: Genetic aging
Theory of aging: Cellular aging
Sensing and perceiving
Active memory
Long term-memory
Control processes
Explicit memory
Implicit memory