key terms

2. The ability to adjust to new conditions.
4. Development that occurs from the top of the head down to the extremities.
7. Includes all relatives in a family, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
9. The ideas and beliefs characteristic of a group, social class, or individual.
12. Body growth that occurs at different rates.
15. Degeneration: Eye disease that causes people to have difficulty seeing objects inside the center of the field of vision.
16. Term used to describe growths or tumors that are noncancerous.
17. When reproductive capacity declines or is lost for both men and women.
18. Family in which the grandparents are the sole caregiver of the child.

1. Carrying on family traditions and values.
3. Eye condition that involves damage to the optic nerve, and in which vision is distorted.
5. family: Parents and one or more children that are permanently and legally added to the family; these families may be nuclear, single-parent, blended, or extended family structures.
6. disease: A progressive brain disorder that includes not only memory loss, but also progressively severe confusion.
8. Dealing effectively with a difficult situation.
10. A family unit that serves as a substitute family for a child. These families may be nuclear, single-parent, blended or extended family structures.
11. Involuntary urination or defecation.
13. Eye condition in which the lens of the eye thickens and causes cloudy or distorted vision.
14. Family: Includes married couple, each spouse’s children from previous relationships, and any children they have together.