Exam 20: Adulthood: Biosocial Development

In controlled longitudinal studies, the U.S. Women's Health Initiative found that taking estrogen and progesterone _____ the risk of heart disease, stroke, and breast cancer.

In an aging brain, _____.

Limitations in _____, not severity of disease, are the hallmark of disability.

Compared to men the same age, adult women have _____ rates of mortality and _____ rates of morbidity for almost every chronic disease.

Collagen decreases by about 1 percent per year starting at age 20.

The average age of menopause is about _____ years.

Severe brain loss that occurs before late adulthood could be caused by any of these factors EXCEPT _____.

_____ is the fourth-most-common cause of death after age 45.

Which country has the highest rate of individuals diagnosed with diabetes?

The adjustment of each part of the body to accommodate changes in another part is referred to as "_____."

Most adults feel strong, capable, healthy, and "in their prime."

Once a person has reached adulthood, oxygen dispersal into the bloodstream from the lungs drops about 4 percent _____.

According to the text, which two factors protect health?

Men experience the same sudden downward shift in reproductive ability as women.

At a recent physical exam, Janet was told that she is an inch shorter than she was five years ago at age 60. What caused her decrease in height?

The process of changing a habit is long and multistepped. Which is the first step in this process?

The 10 million U.S. residents with the highest SES (and the best health care) outlive the 10 million with the lowest SES who live in rundown areas by about _____ years.

A study of women in the United States aged 40 and older found that sexual activity _____.

The first visible signs of senescence are usually observed in a person's _____.

Alice has diabetes but tells everyone that she feels healthy and energetic. How Alice feels would be associated with a high score on a measure of _____.