Exam 14: The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Issues

Marita has been feeling depressed lately. She is 68 years of age, is unmarried, and rarely speaks with her children. Her most prominent depression symptom is probably ________.

Patsy is an enormously creative person. Her peers often wonder at the way she comes up with new and innovative solutions to difficult problems. If Patsy were to undergo neuroimaging tests, you would probably find that she had a very well-developed set of ________ structures in her brain.

Why is it that population pyramids have changed so drastically over the last 60 years and will continue to do so over the next several decades?

A graphic technique that is used to illustrate population trends is called a ________.

____ is best explained by the wear-and-tear theory of aging.

How is the AAA Roadwise Review tool administered to help senior drivers determine how fit they are to be behind the wheel of an automobile?

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are used to treat depression.

Camp and Skrajner (2005) decided to determine whether those with dementia could be trained to be group leaders by using the _______ method.

Maurice has suffered a series of small strokes, each of which has caused a small amount of damage to his brain. As a result, he has now been diagnosed with ________ dementia.

On which of the following types of memory tests do older adults tend to perform much worse than younger adults?

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are medications that are used to treat ________.

Damaged and dying neurons sometimes collect around a core of proteins, producing dendritic ________. These can interfere with the functioning of other, healthy neurons.

Differentiate between the causes of early-onset and late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Define longevity, and define and differentiate between the three different types of life expectancy that comprise longevity.

________ degeneration involves the progressive and irreversible destruction of receptors in the retina.

If you are remembering the first time you tasted chocolate marshmallow ice cream, you are having a(n) ________ memory.

Explicit memory is to implicit memory as

The use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can provide the evidence needed to make a definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

The _____ theory of aging focuses on proteins that interact randomly with body tissues like muscles and arteries.

If you were reading the Guinness Book of World Records and found that the oldest known human being had lived to the age of 128 years, you would technically be marveling at that person's ________ life expectancy.