Late Adulthood Test

Prejudice against older adults is called:

The maximum number of years a person can live is the ____ ____.

The average life expectancy for a person born today in the United States is ______ years.

Alternatives to nursing homes include all the following EXCEPT:

_______ is a mood disorder in which the individual is deeply unhappy, demoralized, and bored.

Which of the following is a TRUE statement regarding work and late adulthood?

____________ memory is th eretention of information about the where and when of life's happenings.

The theory that the more active and involved older adults are, the more likely they are to be satisfied with their lives

When health care providers adopt negative attitudes toward the elderly, what might result?

The number of years that will probably be lived by the average person born in a particular year.

Which of the following tends NOT to decrease in late adulthood?

___________ is (are) the temporary obstruction of blood vessels.

When bone tissue loss becomes sever, an older adult has developed ___.

Theory that states natural selection has not eliminated many harmful conditions and nonadaptive characteristics in older adults; thus, the benefits conferred by evolutionary theory decline with age because natural selection is linked to reproductive fitness

Which of the following is a common physical change in late adulthood?

The thickening of the lens of the eye, which causes vision to become cloudy, opaque, and distorted

In Eric Erikson's theory, _____ describes the period of development for humans in late adulthood.

The free-radical theory of aging suggests that:

Which of the following does NOT include dementia?

The theory that aging is caused by the decay of the tiny cellular bodies that supply energy for function, growth, and repair

Regarding victimization and crime in late adulthood, developmentalists know that:

Leonard Hayflick's theory that the maximum number of times that human cells can divide is about 75 to 80

K. Warner Schale's research focuses on the important links between ___ and the cognitive functioning of older adults.

People between the ages of 65 and 74 are sometimes referred to as the _____.

Another name for implicit memory is ______ memory.

A microbiological theory of aging that states that people age because normal cellular metabolism produces unstable oxygen molecules that ricochet around inside cells, damaging DNA and other cellular structures

_____ is the most prevalent chronic health condition in late adulthood.

_________refers to the number of years a person is likely to live when he or she is born.

_____________ is the generation of new neurons.

According to Baltes, ____ involves reducting performance in some domains in order to focus on optimal performance in other domains.

_____ involves looking at one's experiences, evaluating them, interpreting them, and sometimes reinterpreting them.

Research demonstrates that religion helps people in late adulthood find and maintain a sense of meaningfulness and significance in life. This is an example of a _____ benefit of religion.

Which of the following statements regarding exercise, nutrition, and weight in late adulthood is TRUE?