Final Exam

A  lack of menstruation after menopause

B  heart disease from smoking cigarettes

C  a decrease in the maximum heart rate

D  farsightedness from a stiffening lens

A  is primarily geared toward medical professionals.

B  is inappropriate for school-age children.

C  is associated with increased death anxiety.

D  promotes understanding of social and ethical issues involving death.

A  usually quick and painless.

B  a process in which organs stop functioning in a sequence that varies from person to person.

C  characterized by a loss of heartbeat and respiration.

D  brought on by a cessation of brain functioning.

A  increases with age.

B  peaks in early adulthood.

C  is unknown.

D  decreases with age.

A  often escalates into intense parent-child disagreements and a sharp rise in sibling rivalry.

B  informs parents of the changing needs and expectations of their children, signaling that adjustments in the parent-child relationship are necessary.

C  interferes with adolescent autonomy and identity development and predicts long-term adjustment problems.

D  is associated with a rise in antisocial behavior, particularly for older adolescents.

A  The right to die was of greater concern before the 1950s because vaccinations had not yet eradicated many terminal illnesses.

B  No U.S. states have laws that honor patients’ wishes concerning withdrawal of treatment in cases of a persistent vegetative state.

C  The Quinlan and Schiavo cases created federal right-to-die legislation.

D  All U.S. states have laws that honor patients’ wishes concerning withdrawal of treatment, but no uniform right-to-die policy exists.

A  falls; motor vehicle collisions

B  motor vehicle collisions; cancer

C  cancer; cardiovascular disease

D  falls; cardiovascular disease

A  Alzheimer’s disease

B  Subcortical dementia

C  Cerebrovascular dementia

D  Parkinson’s disease

A  consult with other people.

B  select attractive-looking options.

C  make decisions based on emotion.

D  use practical problem-solving strategies.

A  As many as 75 percent of elderly men and 80 percent of elderly women are not active enough.

B  “Taking it easy” is the best treatment for many chronic diseases.

C  Physically active seniors are at high risk for injury.

D  About 70 percent of U.S. elders participate in regular exercise.

A  high-income workers only.

B  workers at all occupational levels.

C  women but tends to decrease for men.

D  executives and salaried employees only.

A  menstrual cycles become irregular and the reproductive organs increase in size.

B  monthly cycles gradually increase in length until menstruation stops altogether.

C  the production of estrogen drops.

D  the production of estrogen increases.

A  less reminiscence.

B  better physical health.

C  greater death anxiety.

D  higher SES.

A  role confusion.

B  self-indulgence.

C  selflessness.

D  guilt and shame.

A  more negative cultural attitudes toward elder suicide.

B  increased prevention efforts sponsored by the AARP.

C  improved medical care and increased economic security among elders.

D  increased cohabitation among older adults.

A  when elders attempt to adapt to the mix of triumphs and disappointments that are an inevitable part of life.

B  when elders feel they have made many wrong decisions, yet time is too short to find an alternate route to integrity.

C  with the realization that the integrity of one’s own life is part of an extended chain of human existence.

D  when elders have the capacity to view their own lives in the larger context of all humanity.

A  offer a range of housing alternatives, from independent or congregate housing to full nursing home care.

B  are federally subsidized units for low-income elders.

C  are limited to ten or fewer residents, who live in private bedroom-bathroom suites that surround a communal space.

D  provide a hospital-like setting with extreme restrictions on autonomy and social integration.

A  Gratifying social ties

B  Employment and gender identity

C  Occupational prestige and high income

D  Extroversion and neuroticism

A  A culture’s “belief in the species” is a major motivator of generative action, according to Erikson.

B  Generativity is motivated by the sense that one’s days are numbered and the sense of quiet desperation that ensues.

C  Adults can be generative in parenting or other family relationships, but not in the workplace or community.

D  Parenting is the primary means of realizing generativity and, therefore, childless middle-aged adults become stagnant.

A  be understanding about the dying person’s denial and agree that his or her condition is not terminal.

B  not prolong denial by distorting the truth about the person’s condition.

C  make decisions about medical interventions for the dying person until he or she reaches acceptance.

D  bargain with the dying person when he or she is in denial, as this facilitates acceptance.

A  blurred vision from macular degeneration

B  weight gain from a sedentary lifestyle

C  lung cancer from smoking cigarettes

D  high blood pressure from prolonged stress

A  view moral understanding as merely academic and unrelated to moral action.

B  tend to place greater weight on caring than on justice-based reasoning.

C  realize that behaving in line with their beliefs is vital for creating and maintaining a just social world.

D  do not believe in a common justice morality and, thus, act less prosocially than lower-stage adolescents.

A  People in human-service careers have low wisdom scores.

B  Wisdom does not predict physical or psychological well-being.

C  Older adults are wiser than younger adults.

D  A small number of adults of diverse ages rank among the wise.

A  a marital breakup

B  family conflict

C  constructing a split dream

D  loneliness

A  almost always come from affluent families.

B  often feel excessive pressure to get good grades.

C  generally choose friends who share those values.

D  often rebel against their parents in early adolescence.

A  experience life-threatening health episodes-if not in themselves, then in their partners and friends.

B  focus more on child rearing than on career development.

C  emphasize hoped-for-gains rather than feared declines.

D  feel physically stronger and more robust than in early adulthood.

A  of their own vulnerability.

B  that their sense of security is threatened.

C  that life is random.

D  of spiritual connections.

A  The health of lower-income individuals steadily improves throughout the lifespan.

B  Economically advantaged individuals sustain better health over most of their adult lives.

C  There is no relationship between educational attainment and health.

D  The health of individuals with limited education steadily improves throughout the lifespan.

A  home care or an inpatient setting with a homelike atmosphere.

B  care aimed at relieving pain and other symptoms, such as nausea and insomnia.

C  emergency room treatment.

D  life-saving measures such as respirators.

A  Gordon, a boy who has a strong feminine gender identity

B  Luis, a boy who has a strong masculine gender identity

C  Maria, a girl who has a strong feminine gender identity

D  Gabriella, a girl who has an androgynous gender identity

A  is consistent with the prevailing Western stereotype of late adulthood.

B  suggests that she is in denial.

C  is an example of stereotype threat.

D  may help her live a longer life.

A  a synthetic hormone used to prevent miscarriage.

B  a limited time span during which a part of the body is biologically prepared to develop rapidly.

C  a neurological growth period for the fetus.

D  any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period.

A  animistic thinking.

B  an inability to conserve.

C  reversibility.

D  magical thinking.

A  the dynamic systems approach

B  scaffolding

C  the zone of proximal development

D  transitive inference

A  a repetitive communication style.

B  using deliberate mental activities that improve recall.

C  thinking about thought.

D  using scripts to tell stories.

A  the balance of care is sympathetic and loving.

B  the parents are perfectly in tune with their baby’s needs.

C  hunger is consistently satisfied.

D  toddlers are successfully toilet trained.

A  social referencing.

B  stranger anxiety.

C  goodness of fit.

D  separation anxiety.

A  because prosocial acts often occur spontaneously and then are positively reinforced.

B  by observing and imitating people who demonstrate appropriate behavior.

C  largely through operant conditioning.

D  because they feel empathy-based guilt.

A  both a cause and consequence of

B  unrelated to

C  caused by serious hormonal imbalances and predicts

D  more important than nutrition in predicting

A  concrete operational

B  preoperational

C  sensorimotor

D  formal operational

A  the effects of punishment and reinforcement on behavior.

B  nature over nurture.

C  unconscious motives and drives.

D  changes in thinking.

A  maturation

B  equilibrium

C  cognition

D  modeling

A  operant conditioning

B  observational learning

C  psychoanalytic

D  classical conditioning

A  stimuli and responses.

B  natural selection and survival of the fittest.

C  unconscious impulses and drives.

D  clinical case studies.

A  development is affected by a blend of biological, psychological, and social forces.

B  development is static and stable.

C  individual development is continuous, rather than discontinuous.

D  events that occur during infancy and early childhood have the strongest impact on the life course.