PSY 2114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Anxiety Disorder, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Asian Canadians

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Wendy Lee

Document Summary

Chapter 14 making it in midlife: the unique challenges of middle adulthood. Get wrinkles from sun exposure + smoking; greying hair is natural. Male pattern baldness appears in middle age. Get middle-age buldge as metabolism slows down, gain weight at 30-50y. Skeletal maturity = ptn where bone mass greatest + skel at peak dev; occurs at approx. 19y for women and 20y for men: rapid bone mass loss in first few years after menopause greatly inc risk of probs w disease / broken bones. Osteoporosis = disease where bones becomes porous like honeycombs + easy to break: more common in women than men (4x more likely) bc: Women have less bone mass in gen. Some girls don"t consume enough ca2+ from childhood to adulthood. Dec in estrogen following menopause greatly accels bone loss: other risk factors: lack of weight-breaking activity, smoking, ++protein diets, + Score of 0 = norm for healthy adult.