STA: Midlife Crossword
Across
- 1. The general care for the upcoming generation; Ericksons seventh stage
- 3. drop The evidence that as people get older, their scores on different sorts of intellectual tests will diminish
- 5. The most immediate type of intelligence for a person; what has been gathered through experience
- 6. The type of intelligence that deals with the ability to learn to new intellectual activity
- 7. What the guardians are called who are not the immediate family, yet still take care of their younger counterparts, bypassing their own offspring in terms of giving care
- 9. Affects only half of the species and occurs around the age of 50 involving the lack of reproductive ability
- 10. When, through act of disability, a middle aged person must perform parental duties for their own parents
- 12. The parental guardians who step in and assist in times of need; most often grandparents
- 13. The study of ones IQ as an adult based on verbal and performance scales
- 14. How one's intelligence changes through their life in terms of how one lives their life i.e. making decisions or being aware of others
Down
- 2. The stage one reaches in middle age where there is a balanced appreciation for ones younger and older relatives
- 4. This improves as one ages, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder at this point
- 8. This occurs more and more often as half of the species ages; due to this "malady" most couples enjoy longer moments of intimacy
- 11. The study of how ones age affects the intellectual barriers of ones mind; seattle longitudinal study
- 15. Selective optimization with compensation (just like the NY TIMES, this one is a GIMMEE. Enjoy)