Quiz 9

A  continue to actively make new friends.

B  emotionally invest in peripheral relationships.

C  spend most of her time with familiar friends.

D  become more socially withdrawn as she prepares for death.

A  the cohort model

B  the convoy model

C  the longitudinal model

D  the network model

A  growth of dendrites decreased.

B  growth of dendrites increased.

C  number of axons increased.

D  number of neurons increased.

A  estrogen production and the additional X chromosome

B  postmenopausal hormone levels and increased body water

C  better osmoregulation and lower trans fat

D  lower cholesterol levels and improved lung function

A  in early adulthood

B  in late adulthood

C  in middle childhood

D  in adolescence

A  neuroticism

B  conscientiousness

C  agreeableness

D  openness to experience

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

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

C  Persevere and keep trying until you reach your goal.

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

A  because of the decline in color vision

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

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

D  because of the expanding area of the visual field

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

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

A  compensation

B  organization

C  optimization

D  selection

A  functional

B  schematic

C  normative

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  source

B  prospective

C  semantic

D  episodic

A  two-factor theory

B  attachment theory

C  mitochondrial theory

D  reverse neurogenesis theory

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

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

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

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

A  episodic

B  prospective

C  semantic

D  implicit

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

C  It was proposed by Paul Baltes and his colleagues.

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

A  Parkinson disease.

B  brain cancer.

C  dementia other than Alzheimer disease.

D  Alzheimer disease.

A  emergency care

B  home care service

C  hospice care

D  eldercare

A  prefrontal cortex

B  hippocampus

C  hypothalamus

D  amygdala

A  Most of the centenarians are obese.

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

C  Habitual smoking is common among centenarians.

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

A  activity theory

B  social breakdown theory

C  disengagement theory

D  socioemotional selectivity theory

A  selective

B  sustained

C  divided

D  executive

A  episodic

B  semantic

C  prospective

D  situational

A  apathy.

B  abuse.

C  anger.

D  ambivalence.