Chapter 3

Question 1

Disability:

Answer 1

reported difficulty performing activities of daily life

Question 2

ALDS Disability:

Answer 2

dressing oneself and doing things to take care of oneself

Question 3

IADLS:

Answer 3

shopping, meal prep, maintaining the home as a whole

Question 4

Frailty:

Answer 4

characterized by impairments across physiological systems that often entail imbalances in systems

Question 5

Crystallized Intelligence:

Answer 5

increases with age, product of education and experience, more resistant to aging effects

Question 6

Fluid Intelligence:

Answer 6

he ability to think abstractly, reason quickly and problem solve independent of any previously acquired knowledge, peaks during adolescence, susceptible to decline are 60

Question 7

Cognitive Vitality:

Answer 7

maintaining a strong and active cognitive ability. It results from a combination of reserve brain capacity, acquired knowl- edge, and the ability to protect against brain injury.

Question 8

Causes of Frailty:

Answer 8

genetic traits related to cellular, metabolic, cardiovascular, and immunologic systems; onset of disease, poor nutrition, sedentary living,

Question 9

Sarcopenia:

Answer 9

major loss of muscle mass and loss of muscle function

Question 10

Physical Literacy:

Answer 10

defined as the motivation, confidence, and understanding that individuals develop in order to maintain appropriate levels of physical activity

Question 11

Murdock’s Three Stage Memory Model:

Answer 11

first stage info is received and placed in sensory stores, transferred by attention process to short term memory, with additional rehearsal info is transferred into long term memory

Question 12

Episodic memory:

Answer 12

represents the acquisition and retrieval of info acquired in a particular place at a particular time

Question 13

Semantic Memory:

Answer 13

represents common knowledge

Question 14

Field-Dependent Cognitive Style

Answer 14

individuals are more aware of their social environment, more people oriented and more conventional in behavior

Question 15

Field-Independent Cognitive Style:

Answer 15

more analytical, internally directed, less constrained in their behavior by tradition and convention