Exam 16: Older Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Alzheimer's disease can now be cured, although the therapy consists of taking a combination of several types of new drugs called "drug cocktails."

The major decline in intellectual function that occurs with aging involves tasks involving speed.

Dr. Smith believes that aging is the result of a genetically programmed set of changes that operate such that cells can only live for a certain length of time before they become unable to process glucose and die. Such a view would be most consistent with which of the following theoretical models?

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:

If a researcher is working on a genetic test to determine which variation of the APP and ApoE genes a person carries, the general focus of this work is most likely on finding a test that can be used to diagnose which of the following diseases:

According to the text, the old-old age group extends from ages:

According to the text, if the young-old slow down their activity level, this is usually due mainly:

Dr. Rogers is giving a lecture in which he stresses that aging is a normal, natural process that is very much the same for all people, unless illness or injury is involved. The topic for this lecture would best be described as:

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

Semantic memory is usually affected to a greater degree by aging than is episodic memory.

Generalizing from research described in the text, you would expect older adults to suffer the greatest memory decrement on which of the following tasks?

According to the text, older adults experience the largest decline in their ability to manage which of the following types of memory?

In the U.S. today, surveys suggest that about of men and women approve of cosmetic surgery and about of them would consider it for themselves.

According to the text, many people in their 70s experience a dramatic decline in sexual activity, which is most often because of:

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

Alzheimer's disease is a form of:

From 1950 to 2050 in the U. S., the proportion of people age 65 and over in the population is expected to:

If you examined the brain functioning of a teenager and that of an older adult, you would probably notice which of the following differences, with respect to brain lateralization?

According to the text, theories that explain aging as the result of random assaults from both internal and external environments are referred to as:

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.