Exam 16: Older Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

According to statistics presented in the text, the life expectancy for 75-year-old adults living in the U. S. today is:

To say that a condition is chronic means that it:

The Seattle Longitudinal Study is best described as a study that uses which of the following methods to study how adult cognition changes with age?

John says he fears becoming old because "old people are stupid, poor, in poor health, lonely, and they seldom can take care of themselves." John's statement is a good example of:

According to the text, which of the following senses is LEAST affected by advanced age?

Which of the following abilities improves, or increases, with advancing age into older adulthood?

The term used to refer to people in their 80s is which of the following?

If a normal person's brain weighed 3 pounds at age 30, about how much would you expect it to weigh at age 90?

Which of the following disorders is more commonly known as "hardening of the arteries"?

Suppose you conducted a survey of older Americans. If your results mirrored those of a study reported in the text, you would find that most older adults:

According to statistics presented in the text, the number of people in the world with type 2 diabetes is expected to __________ between 2000 and 2025.

The normal aging process, not connected with the occurrence of disease in the individual, is called:

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

Dr. 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?

Older adults sometimes suffer from a condition that makes their bones more hollow and more brittle and may lead to a bent or stooped posture. This condition is called:

If Sara believes that aging is the result of chromosome breakage that occurs each time a cell divides and accumulates until the cell no longer can reproduce itself, her view is most similar to:

Which of the following women has the HIGHEST likelihood of having osteoporosis?

If you were to do one thing that would give you the best chance of avoiding or limiting normal, age-related declines in brain functioning, that would be:

According to the text, expert knowledge focusing on the pragmatics of life that involves excellent judgment and advice on critical life issues defines the trait called:

If you conducted a survey of older adults who live in their own homes, you would expect that about ____ would report that they suffer from sleep problems of one sort or another.