Quiz 9

A  spend most of her time with familiar friends.

B  emotionally invest in peripheral relationships.

C  continue to actively make new friends.

D  become more socially withdrawn as she prepares for death.

A  the cohort model

B  the longitudinal model

C  the convoy model

D  the network model

A  growth of dendrites increased.

B  number of axons increased.

C  number of neurons increased.

D  growth of dendrites decreased.

A  postmenopausal hormone levels and increased body water

B  estrogen production and the additional X chromosome

C  lower cholesterol levels and improved lung function

D  better osmoregulation and lower trans fat

A  in adolescence

B  in middle childhood

C  in late adulthood

D  in early adulthood

A  conscientiousness

B  agreeableness

C  openness to experience

D  neuroticism

A  Focus on the most important goal at a particular time.

B  Persevere and keep trying until you reach your goal.

C  If things don’t go well for you, be willing to let others help you.

D  When things do not go the way they used to, search for other ways to achieve what you want.

A  because of increased tolerance for glare and increased sensitivity to contrasts

B  because of the decline in color vision

C  because of diminishing sensitivity to contrasts and reduced tolerance for glare

D  because of the expanding area of the visual field

A  For older adults with less education, frequently engaging in cognitive activities improve their episodic memory.

B  Today’s older adults were less likely to go to college when they were young adults than were their parents or grandparents.

C  Educational experiences have no impact or are negatively correlated with scores on intelligence tests and information-processing tasks.

D  Fewer older adults are returning to college today to further their education than in past generations.

A  optimization

B  organization

C  compensation

D  selection

A  normative

B  functional

C  schematic

D  semantic

A  It is more likely to be adversely affected by aging than explicit memory is.

B  It is also known as declarative memory.

C  It is memory of facts and experiences that individuals consciously know and can state.

D  It involves skills and routine procedures that are performed automatically.

A  prospective

B  episodic

C  source

D  semantic

A  mitochondrial theory

B  attachment theory

C  reverse neurogenesis theory

D  two-factor theory

A  Rising divorce rates, increased longevity, and better health have led to an increase in remarriage among older adults.

B  Women are more likely than men to remarry, thus removing themselves from the pool of divorced older adults.

C  The majority of divorced older adults are men, due to their greater longevity.

D  Divorce is far less common among younger adults than older adults.

A  episodic

B  implicit

C  semantic

D  prospective

A  Affordable Care Act

B  Patients Act

C  Pure Food and Drug Act

D  Patient Self-Determination Act

A  It emphasizes that the trajectory of motivation for knowledge-related goals declines in adolescence and early adulthood and then peaks during middle and late adulthood.

B  It was proposed by Paul Baltes and his colleagues.

C  It challenges the stereotype that the majority of older adults are in emotional despair because of their social isolation.

D  It states that adults become less selective about their social networks as they grow older.

A  brain cancer.

B  dementia other than Alzheimer disease.

C  Alzheimer disease.

D  Parkinson disease.

A  eldercare

B  home care service

C  emergency care

D  hospice care

A  prefrontal cortex

B  hypothalamus

C  hippocampus

D  amygdala

A  Most U.S. centenarians are likely to describe historical events, death/grief, and work/retirement events.

B  Habitual smoking is common among centenarians.

C  Most of the centenarians are obese.

D  Only a small percentage of centenarians have had significant changes in their thinking skills.

A  activity theory

B  disengagement theory

C  social breakdown theory

D  socioemotional selectivity theory

A  sustained

B  divided

C  executive

D  selective

A  situational

B  semantic

C  episodic

D  prospective

A  apathy.

B  abuse.

C  anger.

D  ambivalence.