Exam 13: Later Life: Cognitive and Socioemotional Development

Natasha is in her twenties. Based on the research, as Natasha gets older she will:

A recently widowed woman tells her grandson, "I keep going over Grandpa's final days and hours. Sometimes I find myself searching for him in the house." Research suggests, this reaction is:

Which relationship BEST predicts how well widows cope after a husband dies?

Generalizing from the text, the best strategy to ensure that an older adult performs at top capacity on a memory test is to:

A recent U.S. retirement trend is more people________.

Spell out the predictors of happiness in later life, and then draw on two principles to help an older loved one feel more fulfilled.

Which U.S worker is MOST apt to retire early?

Which is an example of semantic memory?

The positivity effect refers to the fact that older people:

Ageism is:

Glen, age 65, is convinced that at his age, he is destined to have neural loss and brain deficits, so he stops trying to remember new names. Glen has problems with:

Generalizing from the text, which nation has the LOWEST old-age poverty rates?

The median age of the population is rising in most of the developed world.

Procedural memory-the ability to "remember" to perform well-learned skills-can be retained even into Alzheimer's disease.

Based on the text, if an older adult is continually complaining about her terrible memory, which may be the most helpful strategy?

The MAIN retirement issue for the typical U.S. baby boomer is:

Based on socioemotional selectivity theory, a grandma's top priority should be to spend time:

Which is a recent U.S. retirement trend?

Why is the median age (the age at which half the population is older and half is younger) rising in the developed world?

Soon, people can expect the average age of retirement to decline.