Exam 16: Older Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Developing dementia is part of the normal aging processing, which means that even healthy adults will eventually develop dementia if they live long enough.

For most people in young-old adulthood, the biggest adjustment during this period usually concerns:

Larry was an orphaned child and has lived in an institution his entire life. As he ages, he begins to experience the symptoms of dementia. If these symptoms are the result of his impoverished living conditions, they would best be considered an example of what the text defines as:

The normal, age-related changes that occur in the brain as we enter older adulthood are most likely the result of having ______ of brain cells and having _______ connections among brain cells.

Robbins argues that aging is primarily the result of the attack of body cells by harmful molecules and radiation from the sun. His theory would be most closely associated with which of the following views?

Which of the following words means essentially the same thing as dementia?

Older adulthood is more complex than earlier developmental stages because the people in this stage vary so substantially from each other.

The term most often used to refer to the internal timing that is linked to both the female menstrual cycle and the human immune system is:

Suppose you are given a test that asks you to identify similarities between two words. For example, one question asks, "How are a cup and a plate alike?" This test is most likely measuring which of the cognitive abilities tested in the Seattle Longitudinal Study?

Atherosclerosis is a condition caused by fat cells that are deposited in the walls of arteries, and this condition is more common in Western, than in Eastern, cultures.

In the colonial period in the United States, the median age of the population was ____ years and about ___ of the population reached the age of 65.

Luther, like millions of other Americans, suffers from arthritis, which is considered to be a chronic condition because it:

What percent of the U. S. population age 85 and older is comprised of women?

Older individuals adapt less well to changes in temperature than younger adults.

Which of the following is NOT one of the changes normally associated with aging?

Marion feels tired because his breathing pauses or stops frequently while he is sleeping, waking him up gasping for breath, and being unable to fall back asleep again. This condition is called:

Which of the following is the most accurate statement of the purpose of the Seattle Longitudinal Study?

Theories of aging that focus on how external factors damage our body are usually referred to as biological clock theories.

Pathological aging factors are those factors that involve infectious diseases, such as pneumonia.

People are seldom ambivalent in their feelings about aging; most believe older adulthood to be filled with only negative events.