Exam 14: Successful Aging and Creativity

The group of productive older individuals given credit mainly for their contributions to children's literature in studies of aging and creativity consists primarily of:

The Women's Health Initiative study on sexuality showed that sexual satisfaction was related to:

Which qualities define the sense of "passionate commitment" among productive older adults?

Which "Age Buster" was known for saying "Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar"?

Review the criticisms of the Rowe and Kahn model and how they were addressed by researchers.

Did creative geniuses who experienced difficulties in old age, such as Picasso, Matisse, and O'Keeffe fit psychology's definition of "successful aging"? Why or why not?

Studies of the neuroscience of creativity use a task in which the individual is asked to think about alternative uses of common objects, also called:

Studies linking personal disposition of openness to experience and activity in the ____________ of the brain suggest that there may be, in part, a biological component to creativity.

A large-scale study of retired European adults led researchers to critique the Rowe and Kahn model because it showed that ______________ were important contributors to successful aging.

Critics of studies on aging and creativity point out that much of the research pays too little attention to:

What factors appear to stimulate the development of old age style?

How does the WHO concept of active aging differ from the Rowe and Kahn definition?

In analyzing the productive accomplishments of older Blacks, Simonton discovered that most of the research left them out because of failure to consider areas such as _______ in measuring productivity:

The "Superagers" identified in an MRI study on memory and brain structure showed that those with better memories had the most cortical volume in which region?

Unlike predictors of cardiovascular performance in younger adults, high levels of which substance seem to protect older adults from neurocognitive disorders?

As he got older, for the first time in his life, B.F. Skinner wrote a book about:

The Pieta Rondanini sculpted by _______________ at the end of his life is an example of the old age style, with its emotional power and lack of attention to detail.

The Rowe and Kahn definition of successful aging proposes that absence of ____________ is a component of successful aging.

In a large cohort-sequential study of two large European national surveys, researchers found that at the very end of life, aging seems related to ______________ in life satisfaction:

What are the three basic assumptions of Simonton's model of creative productivity?