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decorative star graphic  Adulthood:
Biosocial Development
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1. What age-related changes in appearance typically occur during adulthood?

2. How do vision & hearing change during adulthood?

3. As a person ages, how is the brain affected?

4. How do age & other factors affect a typical couple’s sex life?

5. What are some of the factors that diminish fertility?

6. Why might a woman welcome menopause?

7. What changes in rates of tobacco use have occurred over the past few decades, & what are the consequences of those changes?

8. What is the effect of alcohol on a person’s risk of mortality?

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9. How does obesity affect physical and psychological health?

10. In what way(s) can preventive medicine have a positive effect on health?

11. What are the four measures of health, & what does each signify?

12. Why does health vary between & within ethnic groups?


Growth & Development
Robert C. Gates
 
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