Across
- 4. Estrogen and progesterone are given to alleviate menopause symptoms
- 6. The ability to discern fine spatial detail in both close and distant objects; begins to decline around age 40
- 10. The relationship among intelligence, prior experience, and the ability to cope with new situations
- 16. A personality characteristic associated with a lower rate of stress-related illness
- 17. Those born after 1980 and who entered young adulthood around the millennium in 2000
- 18. Until age 11; choices are made without regard to skills, abilities, or available jobs
- 21. Living alone without an intimate partner
- 26. A person’s tendencies to be organized and responsible
- 27. Pressure in the fluid of the eye increases
- 30. Parents who work together,adopting common child-rearing goals
- 32. When parents experience unhappiness, worry, loneliness, and depression from their children’s departure from home
- 33. The cessation of menstruation Hormone production changes and symptoms can include “hot flashes,” headaches, dizziness, heart palpitations, and aching joints
- 34. The period of physical and psychological change relating to the male reproductive system that occurs during late middle age
- 36. The ability to withstand, overcome, and thrive following profound adversity.
- 37. Parents who preemptively seek to remove future obstacles and impediments that might negatively impact their children
- 38. naturally occurring declines related to age
- 39. Thinking that goes beyond Piaget’s formal operations, acknowledging that adult predicaments must sometimes be solved in relativistic terms.
- 40. The study of the relationship among the brain, the immune system, and psychological factors
Down
- 1. The Physical and emotional response to events that threaten or challenge us.
- 2. Focusing on the triviality of life
- 3. Parents who intrusively intervene in their children’s lives
- 5. The period from the late teenage years extending to the mid-20s in which people are still sorting out their options for the future
- 7. When basic psychological needs were left unfulfilled
- 8. The degree to which a person is moody, anxious, and self-critical
- 9. Young adults explore specific career options through experience or training
- 11. The period beginning around 10 years prior to menopause when hormone production starts to change
- 12. The period from post adolescence into the early 30s that focuses on developing close, intimate relationships with others
- 13. The transition from being able to bear children to being unable to do so; begins around age 45 and lasts 15 to 20 years
- 14. Combining responses or ideas in novel ways, is at its peak for many during early adulthood, but there are many exceptions
- 15. The inability to achieve or maintain an erection, becomes more common.
- 19. The mental components involved in analyzing data used in solving problems
- 20. The approach to personality development that is based on fairly universal stages tied to a sequence of age-related crises
- 22. A nearly universal change in eyesight during middle adulthood that results in some loss of near vision
- 23. Young adults who return, after leaving home for some period, to live in the homes of their middle-aged parents
- 24. A stage entered between ages 20 and 40, when young adults become centered on their careers
- 25. Couples living together without being married
- 26. Long term continuing events
- 28. When psychological needs rather than material needs were satisfied
- 29. The approach to personality development that is based on the timing of particular events in an adult’s life rather than on age per se
- 31. A person’s level of curiosity and interest in new experiences
- 35. Events and circumstances that produce threats to our well being