Exam 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood

Nathan just celebrated his 100th birthday. It can be said that Nathan is a(n) ________.

________ attention is focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event, or some other aspect of the environment.

An example of ________ attention is the ability to focus on one voice among many in a crowded room or a noisy restaurant.

Which of the following statements about the relationship between semantic memory and aging is true?

Which of the following is true of implicit memory?

The vision of older adults can be affected by age-related changes. One of these changes, which can make steps or street curbs difficult to manage, is a decline in

What is the chronic condition that involves an extensive loss of bone tissue often causing older adults to walk with a marked stoop?

Cynthia is 91 years old. Doctors have found that Cynthia's optic nerves have been damaged because of accumulation of fluid in the eye. Cynthia is worried that she will lose her vision, but the doctor has told her that her condition can be treated with eye drops. The disease that has marred Cynthia's vision is

Which of the following is a way of preventing osteoporosis in middle-aged women?

Discuss the cellular clock theory of aging.

________ memory is memory without conscious recollection.

Remembering where a person went on vacation last summer is an example of ________ memory.

The ________ is one area that shrinks more than others with aging.

Aaron is a healthy, 65-year-old man. Compared with his 24-year-old son Harry, Aaron has much less brain volume. Which of the following is most likely the reason for this difference?

Which of the following biological theories of aging states that people age because their cells' normal metabolism produces unstable oxygen molecules?

Briefly describe life span and life expectancy.

Defects in mitochondria are linked with

Name the two researchers who found that an important factor related to health, and even survival, in a nursing home is the patient's feelings of control and self-determination.

Name Leonard Hayflick's theory that states that the maximum number of times that human cells can divide is about 75 to 80 and that as we age, our cells have less capacity to divide.

________ is a cognitive resource that involves the ability to perform tasks such as deciding whether pairs of two-digit or two-letter strings are the same or different or determining the time required to step on the brakes when the car directly ahead stops.