Exam 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood

Give five characteristics of participants in either the New England Centenarian Study or the New England Supercentenarian Study.

Paige is having a surgical procedure to replace the natural lenses in her eyes with artificial ones. This is a routine procedure, performed to take care of:

The cognitive benefits for older adults who exercise include all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following is an example of explicit memory?

Agnes is working on improving her cardiac functioning by healthy eating, exercise, and watching her weight. She knows that this is one of the best strategies to lower her risk of _____.

Describe the major changes in physical appearance and movement in old age.

In a classic study, Judith Rodin and Ellen Langer found that an important factor related to health, and even survival, in a nursing home is:

Define dementia. Provide the estimates for the percentage of men and women who are predicted to develop dementia, and why those estimates may be inflated.

Frank, age 59, and Kai, age 28, work at the same accounting firm. Based on their age, what would researchers predict regarding absenteeism?

Clara is frustrated because the closed captioning is moving too fast on the television. The people talk too fast and the words in the closed captioning are moving too fast. Clara is experiencing:

A type of dementia that is characterized by muscle tremors, a gradual slowing of movement, and partial facial paralysis.

The retention of information about the when and where of life's happenings is called _____ memory.

Which of the following are regions of the adult human brain where neurogenesis has been documented?

_____ is expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life that permits practical judgment about important matters.

Describe the free-radical theory of aging.

A recent meta-analysis of modifiable risk factors in Alzheimer disease found all of the following except that:

Describe the three diseases that can impair the vision of older adults. Highlight the differences between each one.

Recent studies have focused on the role amyloid plaques, tau, and oxidative stress play in _____ disease.

Chad and his dad are watching the news. He notices his dad is almost constantly moving-drinking water, playing with the dog, commenting on the dimness of the lights. Later when Chad wants to discuss a story they heard on the news, his father can't remember much of it due to his:

Frank, age 67, recites a poem that he learned in grade school, much to the amazement of his grandchildren. This is an example of Frank's _____ memory.