Exam 16: Older Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

If researchers are working to develop drugs that slow or limit the damage caused by Alzheimer's disease, the neurotransmitter they most likely would be working with would be:

Regular exercise can allow older adults to double, or even triple, their strength.

On autopsy, Dan's brain showed a high incidence of twisted and tangled neurons, along with some general cortical shrinkage. This evidence most likely suggests that Dan may have died from:

Older adults typically sleep better, and sleep longer, than younger adults do.

The two most common specific sources of dementia are strokes and Alzheimer's disease.

Older people are generally perceived more favorably than younger adults on all of the following traits EXCEPT:

According to research presented in the text, older adults typically sleep about _____ hours a night, although they stay in bed about ____ hours per night:

According to the text, hearing problems associated with aging include all of the following EXCEPT:

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

The term that usually is used to describe general, overall intellectual functioning is:

Beginning around the time of her 70^th birthday, Margaret began to experience increasing problems in learning new things, with her memory, and with her motor coordination. She now is frequently confused, sometimes doesn't recognize people she has known for a long time, and her speech has become less fluent. The condition that would most likely be diagnosed in Margaret's case would be:

Studies often show that mistakes in prescribing and dispensing prescription drugs are quite frequently made, both by health-care professionals and by older adults themselves.

The text cites recent studies of the brain that indicate that as adults age, their brain actually becomes _________ and the activity of their brain in the prefrontal cortex regions __________.

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:

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

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

Atherosclerosis is most closely linked to a diet high in:

Retirement in the United States today typically occurs at about age 65 or 66. Thus, most people who retire would belong to which of the following groups?

In which of these cultures is filial piety the LEAST strong?

According to the text, those persons aged 60 to 69 are considered