Exam 1: Studying Adult Development and Aging

Describe primary, secondary, and tertiary aging.Give one specific example of each.

Which controversy is a derivative of the stability-change issue and examines whether development occurs as a smooth transition over time or as a series of abrupt shifts?

If you are using a questionnaire to assess memory in older individuals, and each time you administer the questionnaire it produces different results, it can then be said that the measure has low

Even if age is positively correlated with speed of cognitive processing, we cannot conclude that age "caused" this increase because

When a person is asked to write down their responses to a set of questions, this is called a(n)____________________.

Development is said to be ________________when there is more than one path to successful aging.

Developmental researchers are interested in understanding

___________is extremely important in gerontology because it shapes how people define core concepts such as age, old age, and normative life course.

When participants begin but do not finish a longitudinal assessment or study, there may be a problem with _________________.

When one cannot determine which of two or more variables is responsible for an observed behavior or outcome, the results are said to be ________________.

Understanding that development is shaped by biological, psychological, sociocultural, and life-cycle forces defines which feature of the life-span perspective?

If the spring semester class of adulthood and aging students filled out questionnaires regarding stereotypes about aging people, the class would be a

Most studies in adult development and aging have been conducted on middle-class European Americans.This brings into question whether these types of samples are

The index of age that represents a person's intellectual, memory, or learning ability is called

____________________ involves gaining permission from the participant before collecting data and telling the participant about any potential risks and benefits.

Differentiate among age, cohort, and time-of-measurement effects.

A study of 70-year-olds finds that they are more likely to participate in religious services than younger individuals.What can be concluded?

A______________ is a collection of people born in the same time period and/or who experience the same historical events.

The internal set of developmental milestones used to mark one's progress through life is known as the ______________.

The career development center at a local university wants to know what will happen to the 2010, 2015, and 2020 classes of gerontology graduates during the decade following their graduation.Which research design will the center most likely use?