Module 8 Quiz

A  Increase the age at which someone can start collecting Social Security.

B  Make Social Security a private program, much like insurance or a 401(k).

C  Only pay Social Security to people who paid the tax; cut out any spouses or dependents who might benefit.

D  Increasing the work week to 80 hours so that there is more money coming into the program.

A  Gerontocracy

B  Republic

C  Meritocracy

D  Oligarchy

A  Middle-old

B  Young-old

C  Old-old

D  Ancient

A  People are living under so much stress now, that they are going gray early.

B  Gray is culturally considered beautiful and thus people are bleaching their hair.

C  The greatest part of the population is reaching the age of 65 and entering old age.

D  With industrialization and the building of big cities, there is very little green nature left and everything is the color of steel.

A  As people age, they generally withdraw from all forms of society.

B  As people age, they think less and less about being married to their spouse, and more about their individuality.

C  As people age, they begin to lose their friends and family and spend their last days mourning their losses.

D  As people age, they disengage with their friends in order to spend more time with their families.

A  Being patronized by gas station attendants.

B  Having their medical ailments trivialized by doctors.

C  Being suspected of shoplifting by sales clerks.

D  Being carded to prove their Senior Citizen status.

A  Concession

B  Despair

C  Sentimentality

D  Loathing

A  110

B  101

C  105

D  100

A  Quaternary aging

B  Tertiary aging

C  Primary aging

D  Secondary aging

A  Elderly people start dying their hair to replace the color they lose.

B  Women notice wrinkles as one of the first signs of aging.

C  Elderly men sometimes start to go bald as they age.

D  Elderly people lose all appetite and drive for sex.

A  Gerotranscendence

B  Age stratification theory

C  Selective optimization with compensation theory

D  Subculture of aging theory

A  Ontology

B  Thanatology

C  Metrology

D  Teleology

A  85

B  72

C  75

D  65

A  It is the comparison of working people to non-working people.

B  It is the comparison of grandparents to parents.

C  It is the comparison of healthcare professionals to the elderly.

D  It is the comparison of children to parents.

A  The Paris Plan

B  The Brussels Plan

C  The Berlin Plan

D  The Madrid Plan