Exam 18: Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood

Which of the following can be attributed to giving Americans the option to retire?

According to a recent study by De Meyer and others, every one of the older adults with mild cognitive impairment who had ________ in their spinal fluid developed Alzheimer disease within 5 years.

________ tend to overestimate the memory problems they experience on a daily basis.

Estimates indicate that as many as ________ percent of individuals 65 years of age and older have mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Which of the following statements about retirement is true?

How does religion and spirituality meet some important psychological and social needs of older adults?

________ is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for Alzheimer disease.

80-year-old Lucia has difficulty remembering to call her son every Sunday at noon. This is most likely due to a decline in her ________ memory.

Frank, aged 67, recites a poem that he learned in grade school, much to the amazement of his grandchildren. This is an example of Frank's ________ memory.

What is an allele?

According to a study by Balasubramaniam in 2018, who among the following is most likely to commit suicide?

An example of ________ attention is the ability to focus on one voice among many in a crowded room or a noisy restaurant.

Remembering where a person went on vacation last summer is an example of ________ memory.

The term ________ refers to the ability to focus on a specific aspect of experience that is relevant while ignoring others that are irrelevant.

The concept of "use it or lose it" is a significant component of the ________ model of cognitive optimization that addresses strategies to buffer age-related declines in intellectual development.

How is religion related to a sense of well-being and life satisfaction in old age?

Which cognitive resource shows considerable decline in late adulthood and is strongly linked to declines in working memory?

According to Denise Park and Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, neurocognitive ________ involves the use of complementary, neural circuits to protect cognitive functioning in an aging brain.

Discuss three types of attention.

According to research by Baltes and his colleagues, the time frame of ________ is the main age window for wisdom to emerge.