PSYCH 250 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Ovulation, Euthanasia, Frontal Lobe
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Sampselle: goals: explore the meaning that women at midlife attach to the changes they are experience and to compare. Transition to parenting: statistics about parenthood, 70% of couples have children, many have their first child at later ages, family size in industrialized nations has declined, average number of children per us couple: 1950- 3. 1, 1996-2. 2, 2008-2. 1. 72% with children under 18 work and 54% with infants work: dads: More involved in childcare duties than in the past. If a women is out of the house working longer hours, the man often steps in to help: parenting panel. Physical and cognitive development in mid-life and children: vision changes, accommodation of the eye (ability to focus and maintain an image on the retina) experiences sharp decline between 40-59. Weakening of the muscle and growth in size of lens. Leads to difficult viewing close objects: size of the pupil shrinks and lens yellows. Reach their sexual peak in adolescence/young adulthood.
