Module 8 Quiz

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

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

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

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

A  Republic

B  Oligarchy

C  Meritocracy

D  Gerontocracy

A  Ancient

B  Middle-old

C  Young-old

D  Old-old

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A  Having their medical ailments trivialized by doctors.

B  Being patronized by gas station attendants.

C  Being suspected of shoplifting by sales clerks.

D  Being carded to prove their Senior Citizen status.

A  Loathing

B  Concession

C  Sentimentality

D  Despair

A  110

B  105

C  100

D  101

A  Secondary aging

B  Quaternary aging

C  Primary aging

D  Tertiary aging

A  Elderly people lose all appetite and drive for sex.

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

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

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

A  Gerotranscendence

B  Subculture of aging theory

C  Age stratification theory

D  Selective optimization with compensation theory

A  Thanatology

B  Teleology

C  Ontology

D  Metrology

A  65

B  75

C  85

D  72

A  It is the comparison of grandparents to parents.

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

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

D  It is the comparison of children to parents.

A  The Madrid Plan

B  The Brussels Plan

C  The Paris Plan

D  The Berlin Plan