STA: Midlife Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. The general care for the upcoming generation; Ericksons seventh stage
  2. 3. drop The evidence that as people get older, their scores on different sorts of intellectual tests will diminish
  3. 5. The most immediate type of intelligence for a person; what has been gathered through experience
  4. 6. The type of intelligence that deals with the ability to learn to new intellectual activity
  5. 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
  6. 9. Affects only half of the species and occurs around the age of 50 involving the lack of reproductive ability
  7. 10. When, through act of disability, a middle aged person must perform parental duties for their own parents
  8. 12. The parental guardians who step in and assist in times of need; most often grandparents
  9. 13. The study of ones IQ as an adult based on verbal and performance scales
  10. 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
  1. 2. The stage one reaches in middle age where there is a balanced appreciation for ones younger and older relatives
  2. 4. This improves as one ages, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder at this point
  3. 8. This occurs more and more often as half of the species ages; due to this "malady" most couples enjoy longer moments of intimacy
  4. 11. The study of how ones age affects the intellectual barriers of ones mind; seattle longitudinal study
  5. 15. Selective optimization with compensation (just like the NY TIMES, this one is a GIMMEE. Enjoy)