chapter 1 + lecture 1

Question 1

What is gerontology

Answer 1

scientific study of aging from maturity to old age

Question 2

what is the reason for why gerontology is a new field?

Answer 2

life expectancy is changing

Question 3

is gerontology multidisciplinary?

Answer 3

yes

Question 4

How many times you’ve sat on Earth while earth orbits the sun

Answer 4

Chronicle age

Question 5

How do industrial societies measure productivity

Answer 5

time

Question 6

the complex interaction of biological, psychological, and social processes

Answer 6

biopsychosocial perspective

Question 7

Why does the biopsychosocial model make the most sense to use when discussing aging

Answer 7

Changes in biology can affect your psyche and vice versa

Even if bio and psych stay constant the social environment we live in causes us to age differently

Question 8

Body functions and structures that change throughout aging

Answer 8

biological processes

Question 9

thoughts, feelings, and behaviours related to growing old

Answer 9

psychological processes

Question 10

cultural, historical, and interpersonal processes on individual

Answer 10

social processes

Question 11

composite of how people view themselves in the bio,psycho, and social domains of life

Answer 11

identity

Question 12

interaction of the domains bio, psycho, and social

Answer 12

the self

Question 13

the four principles of adult development

Answer 13

Continuity, survivor, individuality, and aging is does not equal disease

Question 14

What principle describes changes that ppl experience is directly related to our past

Answer 14

Continuity

Question 15

How to we divide life when thinking about the continuity principle

What do both of them consist of?

Answer 15

1. early phase: childhood+adolescence
2. later phase:YA, Middle age, Old age

Question 16

adult development is greatly influenced by the early phase?

What principle does this fall under

Answer 16

Continuity

Question 17

When people reach their birthdays, they don’t think of themselves as a whole new people.

What principle does this fall under and what idea is it getting at?

Answer 17

Continuity

and Identity

Question 18

what is the trend for life expectancy over the years.

Answer 18

Trending upwards. People are expected to life longer as the years go.

Question 19

What was interesting when looking at population graphs in the 50s?

Answer 19

Way more younger than older due to baby boom.

Barely any on 80+ (this is a new phenomenon seeing centurians)

Question 20

average life expectancy in 1920s

Answer 20

60

Question 21

positive and negative example of multidirectionality

Answer 21

positive = gains in vocab
negative = less muscle strength

Question 22

Clara states that when we grow older we only see negative declines.

What would you say to her to change her mind.

Answer 22

Development is multidirectionality,

there is growth and decline

Question 23

Barbara decides to learn how to play violin at 60.

What is this an example of

Answer 23

plasticity

Question 24

what would you call the idea that development is impacted by many factors?

Answer 24

multi causation

Question 25

the idea that those who grow old are the ones who manage to outlive many threats that could have caused death.

Answer 25

Survivor principle

Question 26

what is later adult development greatly influenced by?

Answer 26

early phase: childhood and adolescence

Question 27

How is the survivor principle best exemplified by B.P.S model

Answer 27

BIO: Inherited good genes Psych: cognitve healthy Social: good support system stronger cognition = likely to go to college

Question 28

why is survivor principle important to think about when researching traits of older people.

Answer 28

1)they may have not changed when older. They possible were always like this which led to surviving 2) since they survived they may not be like most of their age mates that dies

Question 29

principle where As individuals age the differences are magnified

Answer 29

individuality principle

Question 30

comparing YA and OA what group would show the most differences between the 2.

Answer 30

OA

Question 31

differences between people

Answer 31

inter-individual differences

Question 32

variation of performances with in the same individual

Answer 32

intra-individual differences

Question 33

as ppl age, the differences between them are magnified as a result of different factors

Answer 33

individuality principle

Question 34

What traits does the divergence of individuality happen?

Answer 34

physical health,, psyche, relationship, work, money, personality

Question 35

who is more different group of YA between of highest performer and lowest or group of OA with top vs low performers

Answer 35

OA

Question 36

If you took a group of YA, compared them, and brought them back for testing 20 years later, what would happen to the differences?

Answer 36

They would differ more after 20 years

Question 37

The idea that growing older doesn't mean growing sicker

Answer 37

Normal aging is different from disease

Question 38

What is one issue with equating disease to normal aging

Answer 38

OA does not get a proper diagnosis or treatment if physicians believe symptoms are part of the aging process

Question 39

Normal changes over time that occur due to progressive alterations in the body's system

Answer 39

primary or normal aging

Question 40

changes over time, leading to impairment due to disease and not normal aging

Answer 40

secondary or impaired aging

Question 41

difference between secondary and primary aging

Answer 41

Primary aging happens to everyone like skin wrinkling. Secondary aging only happens to some and is an abnormal set of changes like skin cancer

Question 42

Rapid loss of function that happens at the end of life

Answer 42

tertiary aging

Question 43

age-related changes that improve indiv functioning

Answer 43

optimal aging

Question 44

the age of how people actually perform

Answer 44

functional age

Question 45

age of ppls bodily systems

Answer 45

biological age

Question 46

50 year old blood pressure is the range normal for 25-=30 what is her biological age

Answer 46

30 or 25

Question 47

The performance an individual achieves on cognitive ability

Answer 47

psychological ages

Question 48

where pp are compared to the typical ages expected for people when they occupy certain positions in life

Answer 48

social age

Question 49

James is 70 and still works while his friend Fred is 66 and retired who has the younger social age?

Answer 49

James

Question 50

changes that occur within the individual and reflect the influence of time's passage

Answer 50

personal aging (primary, secondary and tertiary)

Question 51

the effect of a persons exposure to changing enviromment.

Answer 51

social aging

Question 52

what are the 3 parts of social aging

Answer 52

1. normative age-graded influences 2. normative history-graded influence 3. non-normative influences

Question 53

these lead ppl to choose experiences that their culture and historical period attach to certain ages

Answer 53

normative age-graded influence

Question 54

Jill wnts to wait to until 30 until persuing her undergrade howeevr she feels pressured to go at 20. Reluntantly she enrolls at 20. What is this influence?

Answer 54

normative age-graded influence

Question 55

Are normative age-graded influences and biological aging linked

Answer 55

yes, motherhood and athletes are examples of the two interplaying

Question 56

events that occur for everyone within a certain culture

Answer 56

normative history-graded influences

Question 57

Elizabeth town experiences a major flood that stopped her from working and caused some biological disease what influence is elizabeth experiencing

Answer 57

Normative history-graded influences

Question 58

random idiosyncratic events that occur throughout life

Answer 58

non-normative influences

Question 59

John won the lottery. what influence is this

Answer 59

non normative

Question 60

John and elizabeth are both 30 but due to a reccession they lost their jobs. They feel extremely sad that they can't start a family despite all their peers doing so. What influences are at play

Answer 60

history graded and age-graded

Question 61

what was the major finding in whitehall II

Answer 61

men in lower employment had poorer health than their health habits would predict

Question 62

what makes baby boomers important to gerontology

Answer 62

the first time having a large quantity of similiar ages moving through the population together

Question 63

the age trends in 50s canada

Answer 63

lot younger than older barely anyone is 80s+

Question 64

age trend in developing countries

Answer 64

higher younger population

Question 65

age trends in modern canada

Answer 65

fewer being born and lot more older in society centurians now