Adulthood: Body and Mind

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Across
  1. 3. ___ intelligence involves such mental processes as abstract planning, strategy selection, focused attention, and information processing, as well as verbal and logical skills
  2. 4. a gradual physical decline related to aging
  3. 9. The inability to conceive a child after trying for at least a year
  4. 10. Taking hormones (in pills, patches, or injections) to compensate for hormone reduction, most common in women at menopause but it is also used by men to help restore their decreased testosterone level.
  5. 11. ___intelligence involves the capacity to be intellectually flexible and innovative
  6. 13. __intelligence The intellectual skills used in everyday problem solving
  7. 15. The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over the decades in many nations
  8. 17. menopause The time in middle age, usually around age 50, when a woman's menstrual periods cease and the production of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone drops.
  9. 18. A person's ability to be more accomplished at a particular skill, or to have better knowledge of a particular subject, than the average person
Down
  1. 1. assumes that intelligence is one basic trait, underlying all cognitive abilities. According to this concept, people have varying levels of this general ability.
  2. 2. Any situation, event, experience, or other stimulus that causes a person to feel stressed.
  3. 3. Thinking that occurs without deliberate, conscious thought, saving conscious thought for unfamiliar challenges
  4. 5. A technique in which ova (egg cells) are surgically removed from a woman and fertilized with sperm in a laboratory. After the original fertilized cells (the zygotes) have divided several times, they are inserted into the woman's uterus.
  5. 6. The extra capacity built into each organ, such as the heart and lungs, that allows a person to cope with extraordinary demands or to withstand organ strain
  6. 7. ___intelligence reflect accumulated learning. Vocabulary and general information are examples. Some developmental psychologists think ____ increases with age, while fluid intelligence declines.
  7. 8. The adjustment of all the body's systems to keep physiological functions in a state of equilibrium, moment by moment. As the body ages, it takes longer for these homeostatic adjustments to occur, so it becomes harder for older bodies to adapt to stress
  8. 12. One who is notably more accomplished, proficient, and/or knowledgeable in a particular skill, topic, or task than the average person
  9. 14. A dynamic body adjustment, related to homeostasis, that over time affects overall physiology. The main difference is that while homeostasis requires an immediate response, _____ requires longer-term adjustment.
  10. 16. ___ intelligence is basic intelligence that make learning of all sorts quick and thorough. Abilities such as short-term memory, abstract thought, and speed of thinking