Exam 1: Studying Growth and Change Across the Life Span

From a developmental perspective, we are each ______.

Cross-sectional studies ______.

Define gerontology.

Explain how the Baby Boomer generation has impacted the United States since the end of World War II.

Explain the difference between perceived age and biological age.

Aside from chronological age, what are two other indices might we use to measure age?

The Gen X cohort has an estimated ______ million births in the United States.

Stereotypes and attitudes develop from inaccurate information and ______.

Self-assessment of how old one feels based on their thoughts and behaviors is sometimes described as social age.

The majority of factors that influence disparties observed between older racial, ethnic, and other members of underrepresented groups are ______.

Individuals who experienced the Great Depression might have had a greater impact on the future of children during that time compared to adults. This is an example of how the ______.

Double Jeopardy refers to the idea that social structures disadvantage certain groups of people and make adaptation to aging more difficult.

Biological age is also known as physiological age.

The cultural and age-normative expections that one faces refers to ______.

Later life is mared by heterogeneity. This means that ______.

Adults with dementia can demonstrate growth and adaptation.

Baby Boomers are a generational cohort that experienced ______.

Age-normative influences are those large, cultural events which may influence a group of people differently.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of categorizing people by chronological age?

They study of gerontology began in the ______.