exam 1

Question 1

__________ is the branch of medicine concerned with treating and managing diseases related to aging.

Answer 1

Geriatrics

Question 2

___________ is the study of the biological, behavioral, and social phenomena from the point of maturity to old age.

Answer 2

Gerontology

Question 3

The _____________ claims that people who adapt best to aging process are those who choose a few skills and activities on which to focus their energies.

Answer 3

Selective Optimization with Compensation

Question 4

Sam is 48 years old but when he went for his last check up his doctor told him that his blood pressure and cardiovascular functioning were similar to that of the average 76 year old. In terms of ____________ John would be considered old.

Answer 4

Biological age

Question 5

What would be the normative age grade influence on development?

Answer 5

puberty menopause

Question 6

What is the most accurate statement about older ages 65+ men and women in the United States at the present time?

Answer 6

Its when people officially enter the age of adulthood

Question 7

It is estimated ____% of the percentage of the U.S. population that will be aged 65+ by the year 2030.

Answer 7

20

Question 8

When there is a decline in cognitive ability test scores prior to death this is referred to as a __________.

Answer 8

terminal drop

Question 9

Research on the relationship between ______________ and how old a person feels indicates that middle aged and older adults usually feel younger than they are.

Answer 9

chronological age

Question 10

___________ includes biological hereditary genetic factors.

Answer 10

Nature

Question 11

____________ includes enviroment influences and life experiences.

Answer 11

Nurture

Question 12

What is the scientific study of Demography?

Answer 12

Human populations

Question 13

The ____________ places more emphasis on the characteristics of the enviroment.

Answer 13

Ecological Model of Aging

Question 14

According to the______________, people adapt best when environmental is tailored to their own level of competence.

Answer 14

Ecological Model of Aging

Question 15

The ____________ focuses on the strategies aging individuals can use.

Answer 15

Selective Optimization with Compensation Model of Aging

Question 16

The baby boom generation refers to individuals born between ______ and ________.

Answer 16

1946-1964

Question 17

In the United States, the fastest growing segment of the older adult population in the United States is the ___________.

Answer 17

Oldest old group

Question 18

_________ is and organismic variable as well as socioeconomic state , race and housing environments.

Answer 18

Age

Question 19

Which kind of research studies are participants randomly assigned to levels of an independent variable.

Answer 19

Quasi experimental

Question 20

The ____________ model places the heaviest emphasis on the nurture side of the nature nurture debate

Answer 20

Mechanistic met

Question 21

__________ is shown when people have low expectations about older adults cognitive or social capabilities.

Answer 21

Ageism

Question 22

When a measurement instrument is reliable this means it is _____________.

Answer 22

Consistent

Question 23

When a measurement instrument is _________, this means that it is measuring what we think it is measuring.

Answer 23

valid

Question 24

With ______________ attrition the most obvious issue to consider.

Answer 24

Longitudinal research designs

Question 25

Correlations can range from _______ to _______,

Answer 25

-1.0 to 1.0

Question 26

What is an example of a strong correlation?

Answer 26

.84

Question 27

What is a strong negative correlation?

Answer 27

-.84

Question 28

What does a correlation of 0 mean?

Answer 28

there is no relationship between 2 variables

Question 29

With ____________ confounds ( is unable to separate) cab be found between age and cohort.

Answer 29

Cross sectional research designs

Question 30

__________ refers to illness and disease.

Answer 30

Morbidity

Question 31

__________ refers to death.

Answer 31

Mortality

Question 32

___________ focus on random damage to our vital systems that occurs with the process of living

Answer 32

Stochastic theory of biological aging

Question 33

_________ are the molecular fragments formed as a by product of the body metabolic processes that unite with other molecules and interfere with their functioning.

Answer 33

Free radicals

Question 34

____________ occurs when research participants are all the same chronological age and individuals are tested at two different times.

Answer 34

Time lag research design

Question 35

__________ refers to age related changes that result from disease disuse and abuse.

Answer 35

Secondary aging

Question 36

__________ refers to what is considered a usual oral or average outcome.

Answer 36

Normative Aging

Question 37

____________ refers to the ability to find happiness and well being even in the face of physical and psychological challenges.

Answer 37

Positive aging

Question 38

With ________________ more and more people will be ill only immediately prior to death.

Answer 38

Compression of morbitity

Question 39

In the United States, life expectancy has been __________ and life span has __________

Answer 39

increasing and stayed the same

Question 40

______________ is the leading cause of death for people age 65+ in the United States.

Answer 40

Heart disease

Question 41

_______________ is when the brain adapts to neural challenges by building alternative neural circuitry, or scaffolds

Answer 41

Scaffolding Theory of aging and cognition