Erin is a middle-aged wife and mother of adolescent children. Her mother had a stroke
and just moved into her home. Erin is feeling tension from her mother and her children,
which is a common characteristic of
a. partner caregivers.
b. the sandwich generation.
c. the babyboomer generation.
d. women who are depressed.
Older adults are at increased risk for abusing alcohol if they simply continue their
alcohol habits from earlier points in their lives. This is because, with age, we
a. metabolize alcohol more slowly.
b. drink more to get the same effect.
c. find that alcohol is easier to obtain.
d. have more serious interactions between alcohol and other medications.
As many as of older adults suffer from anxiety disorders.
a. 1%
b. 15%
c. 33%
d. 75%
Remembering where you were when 9/11 occurred is an example of
a. explicit memory.
b. semantic memory.
c. an implicit memory.
d. a flashbulb memory.
The personcentered planning approach is based on promoting residents’ wellbeing by
increasing their perceived
level of personal control and treating them with .
a. control
b. respect
c. support.
d. importance
Trying to complete two tasks at one time requires which type of attention?
a. selective attention
b. sustained attention
c. divided attention
d. attentional capacity
Disconnecting a ventilator, not performing a surgery, or withholding food from a
terminally ill patient all fall under the category of
a. active euthanasia.
b. passive euthanasia.
c. mercy killing.
d. bioethical euthanasia.
Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) has two versions: a four factor and
a________factor version.
a. six
b. seven
c. eight
d. five
Gay and lesbian couples differ from heterosexual couples in that they are
a. less likely to cohabit.
b. more similar on demographic characteristics.
c. less similar on demographic characteristics.
d. less likely to be in dual-earner relationships.
Bilateral activation in older adults may serve a functional and supportive role in
their_______functioning.
a. conscious
b. unconscious
c. cognitive
d. physical
Which of the following terms is not associated with cellular theories of aging?
a. Hayflick limit
b. free radicals
c. cholesterol buildup
d. cross-linking
As noted in Chapter 1, without the psychometric properties of______ and________, we
cannot rely on assessment methods to provide good quality information.
a. reliability; validity
b. theory; research
c. cross-sectional; longitudinal studies
d. interviews; questionnaires
Research on age differences in wisdom shows that
a. there is little association between age and wisdom.
b. wisdom increases dramatically during old age.
c. there are few individual differences.
d. young adults cannot be wise.
The likelihood that information in memory will be used to guide social judgments is
related to
a. how easily the information can be accessed.
b. one’s social context base.
c. how quickly the information is processed.
d. one’s implicit memory.
Lawton and colleagues (1999) found that a person’s valuation of life had a great deal of
impact on
a. that person’s experience of chronic diseases.
b. how long that person would like to live.
c. experience of acute illnesses.
d. rates of depression.
Reductions in the temperature control mechanisms in the body are largely due to
changes in
a. the digestive system.
b. the endocrine system.
c. the vestibular system.
d. the autonomic nervous system.
When Lucy’s husband of 50 years died, she turned to her best friend, Glenda, for
support. Which theme of adult friendships does this represent?
a. affective or emotional basis
b. communal or shared nature
c. sociability and compatibility dimension
d. bereavement support dimension
According to Piaget’s theory, interpreting the world in terms of existing cognitive
structures is called
a. organization.
b. operations.
c. accommodation.
d. assimilation.
Under which conditions do older and younger adults show similar patterns of attention
allocation?
a. never
b. when the goal is to have familiarity with the material
c. when the task requires effortful and deliberate processing
d. when the information is presented quickly
Men are most satisfied with a division of household labor based on equal number of
hours spent, whereas women are most satisfied when men
a. do an equal number of chores.
b. do the most amount of work possible.
c. are willing to do women’s traditional chores.
d. do traditional men’s chores.
Most memory improvement courses train people to become proficient at using
a. internal strategies.
b. external strategies.
c. exterior strategies.
d. interior strategies.
In an abusive relationship, the degree of violence usually starts small and
a. remains at the same degree of violence.
b. will quit within several months.
c. gradually continues to escalate.
d. after that has no predictable pattern.
Some people experience grief years after the loss. For example, in one research study,
some widows showed no signs of lessening grief after_________ years.
a. 5
b. 10
c. 15
d. 18
The concept of______describes how executives with better fit between their personal
intentions and their firm’s mission care more about their employee’s happiness, job
satisfaction, and emotional well-being.
a. meaning-mission fit
b. corporate sensitivity
c. employee-company wellness
d. corporate-mission-care
Home modification is an example of
a. increasing one’s competence.
b. lowering environmental press.
c. maladaptive coping.
d. decreasing corrective adaptation.
Which of the following approaches attempts to link measures of cognitive performance
to measures of brain functioning?
a. neurocorrelational
b. psychological
c. neuropsychological
d. neurobiosocial
Implicit memory is also referred to as
a. declarative memory.
b. procedural memory.
c. intentional memory.
d. subjective memory.
Okinawans, who eat only 60% of the normal Japanese diet, have 40 times as many
people over the age of 100 than the rest of Japan. This provides evidence for which
biological theory of aging?
a. rate-of-living
b. cellular
c. programmed-cell-death
d. cross-linking
Social Security began in 1935 as an initiative by President
a. Eisenhower.
b. Roosevelt.
c. Hoover.
d. Coolidge.
When you decide to tackle a problem head on, you are using
a. emotion-focused coping.
b. problem-focused coping.
c. tertiary coping.
d. primary coping.
In general, crystallized and fluid intelligence show
a. opposite developmental trends.
b. identical developmental trends.
c. no developmental trends.
d. unknown developmental trends.
The ABCDE model describes
a. the cycle of violence in abusive relationships.
b. the stages of friendship.
c. the stages of love relationships.
d. the process of transitioning to widowhood.
For people in the United States, the current average longevity from birth is
about__________.
Many people care for their aging parents because of____________, when an adult child
feels a responsibility to their parents.
The________ to cognition examines how people take in stimuli material from their
environment and transform that information into memories.
In a___________, people state their wishes regarding life support and other treatments.
What is the default network of the brain and how is it related to poorer performance of
cognitive tasks in older adults?
What does the P-FIT theory propose regarding the origins of intelligence?
Do social and lifestyle variables have an impact on intellectual functioning? If so, in
what way(s)?
Describe the differences between acute and chronic illnesses. Give one example of
each.
The method called DTI results in an index of the structural health of______.
Brushing your teeth is not something you tend to think consciously about.
Remembering how to do it is an example of ____________ memory.
What do telomeres and telomerase have to do with cellular theories of aging?
A(n)________is a person who teaches the informal rules of an organization to a new
colleague.
Rates for depression tend to be higher in_________ than for other groups of older
ethnic adults.
According to Langer’s socialpsychological perspective approach to the
personenvironment issue, the key to
residents well-being is the degree to which they .
The perceived ability to cope with harm, threat, or challenge is_________.
Summarize the findings concerning age-related changes in divided attention.
Satisfying and happy marriages result when both partners perceive there is a fair
exchange, or__________, in the relationship.