Exam 7: Cognitive and Physical Performance

Discuss population age trends in physical fitness. How is physical fitness measured? What do the findings from Canada suggest? How can these findings be explained? How do results from the United States compare?

Findings after 1980 show _____ levels of physical activity among older people than in earlier surveys.

A model that was proposed to account for age trends in athletic performance, and has received empirical support, suggests

Which of the following terms refers to sensation, perception, and thought?

Findings from the 1999 Manulife Financial survey on exercise frequency show

In the American study of physical fitness by Kovar and LaCroix, the physical activity of grasping with fingers refers to

During the past century, the assumption of intelligence has changed from

Describe the four main categories of long-term memory. How valid is the stereotype that older people live in the past? Are they more likely to remember events decades past than current events? Why?

Discuss the three types of research design used in studying age trends in intelligence. What have the designs found? Discuss the problems associated with these approaches.