About one-third of cases of___________are preventable.
a. depression
b. delirium
c. dementia
d. bipolar disorder
The most common drug(s) used to treat depression are
a. SSRIs.
b. lithium.
c. ECTs.
d. MAO inhibitors.
One mistake that people frequently make with their bereaved loved ones is
a. overestimating the amount of time needed to grieve.
b. allowing people to grieve in their own way.
c. allowing people to grieve for as long as they desire.
d. leaving them alone due to not knowing how to deal with them.
One implicit internal memory aide has proven quite powerful, and those with
Alzheimer’s can learn new things using it. What is it?
a. EIEIO method
b. spaced retrieval
c. memory monitoring
d. memory drugs
Saying “Just let me live until my daughter graduates college” reflects which of
KblerRoss’s stages?
a. denial
b. acceptance
c. depression
d. bargaining
Which of the following terms provides a way to understand compensatory changes in
both observable behavior and in the less observed (or more difficult to observe)
reorganization of neural circuitry?
a. neuroimaging
b. gerontology
c. positivity
d. plasticity
Kalmijn and Flap (2001) examined data from 1,500 couples, and they found that
meeting at school resulted in the highest rate of
a. passion.
b. homogamy.
c. divorce.
d. intimacy.
Is a person’s voice susceptible to the aging process?
a. No, one’s voice does not change over time due to aging.
b. No, if one’s voice changes as one ages, it is due to the person’s overall poor health.
c. Yes, older voices are characterized by lower pitch, less precise pronunciation, and
lower volume.
d. Yes, older voices are characterized by higher pitch and higher volume.
When women choose careers in high paying fields such as science, technology,
engineering, or mathematics, does that eliminate the wage gap?
a. Yes, women and men in these fields are paid the same amounts.
b. No, there remains a wage gap.
c. Yes, but only if women choose careers in engineering.
d. Yes, if women choose careers in mathematics and don’t take time off to raise
children.
Which of the following cannot be an independent variable?
a. drug dosage
b. use of memory aids
c. amount of sleep
d. age
People with diabetes mellitus can experience______ if their sugar level is too high
and______ if their sugar level is too low.
a. fever; coma
b. coma; fever
c. coma; unconsciousness
d. unconsciousness; coma
In the case of Nancy Cruzan (1990), the United States Supreme Court ruled that in
terms of forced feeding
a. individual desires must be expressed through a health care power of attorney or a
living will.
b. third parties (such as parents or partners) can decide to have nourishment stopped.
c. whether or not to continue force feeding is up to one’s physician.
d. force feeding is illegal under any circumstances.
Which disorder is characterized by periods of depression and mania?
a. schizophrenia
b. obsessive-compulsive disorder
c. multiple personality disorder
d. bipolar disorder
Research has found that declines in the dopaminergic system are related to declines
in______memory and____tasks.
a. long-term; speed
b. semantic; attention
c. episodic; thought
d. episodic; speed
“I didn’t do well on that exam because the teacher is unfair” is an example of a
a. situational attribution.
b. causal attribution.
c. causation.
d. dispositional attribution.
A manager of a department store tries to avoid hiring people over the age of 65 because
he believes they cannot handle the stress and that they take longer to learn the job than
people who are younger. The belief of the manager is known as
a. contextualism.
b. socialization.
c. ageism.
d. dysthmia.
The best conclusion to make about personal concerns is that
a. there is evidence for substantive change as people age.
b. there is no change.
c. there is some change, but it is related to a person’s age.
d. a midlife crisis is inevitable.
After decades of attention to the glass ceiling, what have been the results?
a. Little change has been made in the number of women who lead major corporations,
serve on their boards, or are company directors.
b. Women now outnumber men as top executives, board members, and directors of
major corporations.
c. Women now equal men in numbers of top executives, board members, and directors
of major corporations.
d. The glass ceiling was found to be a myth. Women were always represented in
numbers equal to men in top corporate positions.
Occupational fields such as teaching and nursing have gone to great lengths to try to
alleviate reality shock by offering
a. financial incentives to those choosing teaching and nursing majors.
b. student loan pay-back assistance.
c. higher starting salaries to attract more people to these fields.
d. internships and practicums.
Viewing older people’s forgetting of where they parked their cars at the mall as more
serious than younger people’s forgetting of where they parked their cars reflects a(n)
a. correspondence bias.
b. stereotype threat.
c. negativity bias.
d. age-based double standard.
Using the developmental forces perspective, an older adult who is vague in answering
questions because his generation was socialized not to disclose one’s inner self to
strangers is an example of
a. a sociocultural factor.
b. a psychological factor.
c. a biological factor.
d. a life-cycle factor.
Researchers argue that changes in_________ with aging, such as declines in working
memory, may lead to an increase in a need for closure with age.
a. personal control
b. possible selves
c. emotional selectivity
d. processing resources
Behavioral perspective research has suggested that basic cognitive processes affected
by aging can be improved through_______ and______ to multiple levels of functioning
as long as the basic functions are shared across tasks.
a. practice; repetition
b. writing; reading
c. plasticity; training
d. training; transfer
Across the research, the typical finding is that older adults have reduced brain activity
in the_________areas when compared with younger adults.
a. prefrontal and temporal
b. cerebellum and cortex
c. corpus callosum
d. limbic system
When two or more people work together to solve a problem or task, they are engaging
in
a. primary control.
b. collaborative cognition.
c. metacognition.
d. problem-focused coping.
The results of Dixon and Gould (1998) on married couples and collaborative cognition
illustrates
a. older couples perform better than singles but not as well as young married couples.
b. older couples perform worse than younger couples.
c. older couples perform as well as younger couples.
d. older couples performed as well as younger singles.
Corr identified bodily needs, psychological security, spiritual energy and hope,
and______as dimensions of issues a person must face in the course of dying.
a. interpersonal attachments
b. acceptance
c. financial obligations
d. ego integrity
Cindy was in an accident 10 years ago. Since the accident, her cortex has ceased to
function, but her brain stem has continued to function. This allows her to breathe on her
own. This is an example of a
a. persistent vegetative state.
b. coma.
c. psychological fugue.
d. whole-brain death.
_______are longstanding behaviors that increase one’s chances of a disability.
a. Risk factors
b. Personal factors
c. Extraindividual factors
d. Intraindividual factors
The average married woman can expect to spend______years as a widow.
a. 2
b. 5
c. 10
d. None, as women have shorter life expectancies than men and typically die before
their husbands.
____________involves a rapid loss that occurs just before death.
a. Primary aging
b. Secondary aging
c. Tertiary aging
d. Pathological aging
Age changes are studied most effectively using a ________design.
a. cross-sectional
b. longitudinal
c. time-lag
d. sequential
Overall, there is considerable shrinkage that occurs in the aging brain. However, the
shrinkage is selective. The prefrontal cortex, the_____, and the______all show
profound shrinkage.
a. frontal lobe; left cortex
b. parietal; occipital
c. cerebellum; amygdale
d. hippocampus; cerebellum
Remembering something that did not really occur is known as
a. false memory.
b. source memory.
c. flashbulb memory.
d. implicit memory.
The drug(s) used to treat depression that may produce dangerous interactions with food,
such as cheddar cheese, is/are
a. heterocyclic antidepressants.
b. lithium.
c. ECTs.
d. MAO inhibitors.
The______approach to pain management includes the use of narcotic and nonnarcotic
medications.
What are the effects of prevacation and postvacation workloads and homeloads?
For the theorist_________, thought is governed by the principles of adaptation and
organization.
When participants begin but do not finish a longitudinal assessment or study, there may
be a problem with
_________________.
List the current criteria for whole-brain death.
Divorce rates for women service members who are deployed are______ than that of
their male counterparts.
Denying a job to someone solely on the basis of whether that person is a man or a
woman is called
_________________.
Terkel (1974) reported that workers were most likely to feel________when they
performed routine, repetitive actions.
An accurate assessment of abnormality in behavior must take into consideration
the________in which the behavior occurs.
Older adults may be more susceptible to_______infection because of changes in the
immune system.
What developmental factors must be considered in therapy?
Why do people engage in patronizing speech?
What are some of the issues involved in assessing a person’s ability to make decisions
about their care?
_____are more likely to rely on God for support than are European Americans.
Describe the three broad themes in friendship.
What are structural imaging techniques best at identifying?
How does our use of primary and secondary control strategies change across the life
span?