Exam 13: Later Life: Cognitive and Socioemotional Development

_____,or strategies to make information emotionally vivid,help people remember episodic material best.

What is the BEST key to easily remembering material?

Martha knows that her memory is not what it used to be,so she makes up rhymes for items that are especially important to remember.Martha is using a(n)_____ technique.

Which memory task does NOT involve divided attention?

What is the MAIN difference between the U.S.retirement philosophy and the German approach?

According to the text,people's feelings of _____ and a sense of purpose in life are two keys to being happy and functioning fully in old age.

Latisha has pancreatic cancer but still feels well.Generalizing from socioemotional selectivity theory,she would tend to do all of the following EXCEPT:

Describe trends in the median age of the population in the developed world and the forces underlying these changes.

_____,or tasks in which people must monitor something else while simultaneously memorizing material,are unusually difficult for everyone,especially older adults.

The young-old are in their sixties,and the old-olds are _____.

People who retire in their early sixties can expect to live for about _____ more years.

Older people tend to selectively focus on _____ events.

If Dr.Demography is discussing the median age,she means the age at which:

Which is NOT a comment that embodies the principles of socioemotional selectivity theory?

Who is MOST likely to be forced to work until he or she is disabled and/or dies?

On easy memory tasks,older people perform:

Age differences in performance are SMALLEST when young and elderly people take _____.

Which is the order of memory systems from MOST fragile to MOST enduring?

Baby boomers entering later life,plus declining _____ rates,contribute to the rising median age in the developed world.

The average baby boomer has enough assets to retire at age 65.