Exam 16: Older Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Ageist stereotypes can be either positive or negative.

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

Another term used to describe the condition called "multi-infract dementia" is:

Most studies find little or no difference in the short-term memory performance of young and older adults.

According to the text, which of the following factors accounts for the largest share of problems older adults have with driving a car?

Age spots that look like brown areas of pigmentation are popularly called:

Alzheimer's disease is now the fifth leading cause of death among people age 65 and over.

Suppose you are conducting research at a nursing home populated by older adults. About two-thirds of these adults complain that they suffer from sleep problems. Generalizing from research presented in the text, you should conclude that the proportion of adults in this facility with sleep problems is:

Robert is diagnosed as having glaucoma. He should anticipate that the recommended treatment for this condition will most likely be:

Which of the following is the best example of a chronic health problem faced by a relatively large proportion of older adults?

John's grandmother says she has "hardening of the arteries." The more technical term for this condition is:

If Tom and Betty are typical adults and both are 6 feet tall at age 25, about how tall would you expect them to be at age 80?

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:

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

Hearing loss that results from working in a noisy factory environment is a good example of a pathological aging factor.

The term most often used to refer to theories suggesting that genetic programming determines the pace and processes of aging are referred to as:

If you were to interview 1,000 adults age 85 and over and ask them to rate their own health status, about how many people in this group would you expect to report that their health is "good" to "excellent"?

Eighty-five-year-old Norma tells her grandchildren about her life during the Great Depression. Her recall of such events illustrates her ability to recall information from:

Frank reports that he just can't get to sleep, and if he does fall asleep, he can't stay asleep. His condition would be called:

If aging is caused by processes that allow cells to divide a limited number of times, this view would be a good example of a biological clock theory of aging.