Exam 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood

Brain scans through middle adulthood show evidence of decreases in:

Which of the following can we predict as an outcome of skillful ability to use SOC strategies in middle adulthood?

Heart disease increases risk for:

Compared to women, men maintain higher levels of bone density in middle adulthood because they achieve greater bone density prior to middle adulthood.

When an external threat or attack is perceived, the body's __________________________ is triggered.

Living at home after he graduated college, John wondered whether his mother was experiencing cognitive aging because she often:

In middle adulthood, reproductive changes take place in both physical and psychological domains.

In the Seattle Longitudinal Study, the most dramatic decrease in a specific domain is in ____________________ which actually begins to significantly decrease in emerging adulthood.

Obesity is a health crisis in middle adulthood, a health statistic that is unique to the United States.

Midlife is a life stage when adults are likely to first notice changes to their skin, for example, age spots, liver spots, and solar lentigines.

Experts are able to do __________________tasks effortlessly.

The timing of menopause;

In middle adulthood, rigorous physical exercise:

For the majority of individuals, in middle adulthood, the life domain most important to them is:

An example of the type of activity that has the greatest potential to reduce bone density loss in middle adulthood is:

According to the American College of Sports Medicine, middle-aged adults should exercise for a minimum of ___ minutes a day 5 days a week or vigorously for ___minutes 3 days a week.

Baltes's meta-theory identifies these processes associated with optimal aging: selection:

In terms of developing expertise, "Master" is the highest stage.

By middle adulthood, diseases are the biggest threat to health, in terms of risk for death.

Recognition-primed decision making refers to the ability of an individual to make decisions quickly due to the ability to _____________________ about a situation.