PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Longitudinal Study, Epigenetics, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

But with a healthy lifestyle, good social support, and mental stimulation we can be independent and sharp into the last years of our life. Women enter menopause, the end of reproductive abilities. The myth: time of misery, despair, and depression. The reality: many women are relieved to be done with periods, report renewed vigour and energy menopause by itself does not cause depression. Men have a gradual decline in quality and quantity of sperm (this begins in late 30s) On tv; yes, but on average they don"t experience this in real life. Sex: if you are healthy and have a partner, both men and women will continue to desire and enjoy sex even as they age. Young people aren"t having as many babies maybe not enough. Other countries have the opposite problem where the youth far outnumber the old . Today our lifespan is generally over 75, this is a huge jump up even from less than a century ago.