DEP 2004 Final Exam
In the years 2008-2010, an estimated _____ people received hospice care each year.
1,5000,000
Which age group is most likely to report that the amount of stress they are experiencing has increased over the past 5 years?
18-32
About how many aging parents live near a child?
2/3
The average person retiring at the age of 65 has about _____ of life to look forward to.
20 years
A woman's lifetime risk of developing cancer at any or all sites is 1 in
3
The CDC recommends that adults engage in at least _____ minutes of vigorous physical activity five days a week.
30
After age _____, women who become pregnant are usually advised to have their fetuses checked for Down's syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities.
35
Most developmentalists believe that midlife begins around the ages of
35 and 40
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approx. _____% of 18-24 y/o are either overweight or obese.
40
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross claimed that there are _____ stages of the brain dying.
5
In a study of women aged 22-35, 36-49, or 50-62 who were seeking employment, the women aged _____ were most likely to accept jobs low in pay as long as they liked work.
50-62
What % of LBGT adults aged 60-91 reported good or excellent mental health in a research study?
75%
About _____ million male-female couples are cohabiting in the U.S. today.
8
Cigarette smoking causes _____% of lung cancer deaths in the U.S.
87
_____ Americans have higher than average rates of colorectal cancer and deaths from that disease.
African
_____ _____ is the most common lifestyle for Americans in their early 20s.
Being single
People who live in which of the following countries have the greatest life expectancy?
Cuba
Which of the following is not true about depression in late adulthood?
Depression and sadness are pretty much the same thing in late adulthood.
Which of the following is accurate about the prevalence of sexual dysfunctions?
Estimates of their prevalence vary widely.
_____ psychologists believe that gender differences in preferences for mates persist because they have been connected with reproductive advantages.
Evolutionary
The _____ Effect refers to the research finding that IQ scores in the U.S. increased an average of 18 points between 1947 and 2002.
Flynn
Alexandra Rusconi compared Germany and Italy and found that
Germans normally set up independent homes prior to marriage.
The most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States is:
HPV
_____ memories are automatic and recall the performance of tasks such as reciting the alphabet or multiplication tables, riding a bike, or using a doorknob.
Implicit
_____ _____ was the first researcher to propose a theory of grief.
John Bowlby
_____ memory has no known limits.
Long-term
Which is true of body esteem in late adulthood?
Older men express lower body esteem than older women do
Which of the following statements about stress is accurate?
Stress suppresses the immune system.
What is the relationship between cohabitation and subsequent divorce?
There is a positive correlation between cohabitation and divorce.
The leading cause of death among young adults is _____.
accidents
Among 25 to 44 year old's, the leading cause of death is _____.
accidents/injuries
According to _____ theory, we would expect that people who are better adjusted to retirement will be doing many things rather than taking it easy.
activity
In the big five personality model, as people develop from middle age to late adulthood, they tend to show a rise in the trait of _____.
agreeableness
People who are lonely have been shown to have all of the following characteristics except _____.
an inadequate standard of living
Researchers investigating DNA have found that the production of _____ declines with age, rendering the body less able to fight off infections.
antibodies
In middle adulthood, most sibling relationships
are close
When we compare friendships in middle adulthood to those in early adulthood, we find that those in middle adulthood
are more similar to their friends than early adults are
Heart disease most commonly results from_____.
arteriosclerosis/atherosclerosis
Which of the following is an emotional state of longing and deprivation that is characterized by a deep sense of loss?
bereavement
Young adults who leave home and then return because of financial need have been referred to as the _____ generation.
boomerang
Medical and legal professionals generally use _____ death as the standard for determining that a person has died.
brain
The concept of whole brain death refers to death of the brain and the _____.
brain stem
Between the ages of 45 and 64, _____ is the leading cause of death.
cancer
By the ages of 25-44, which of the following replaces homicide as the second leading cause of death?
cancer
Which of the following substances is most likely to accelerate the heart rate and constrict the arteries?
cocaine
As people mature, Labouvie-Vief found that they tend to develop a _____ complexity that enables them to harbor both positive and negative feelings about their career choices.
cognitive affective
Alziemers disease is the most common cause of a broader category of cognitive impairments termed _____.
dementia
A survey of Detroit men ranging from the age 20-93 found that men w/o close social ties were significantly more _____ than men with relationships.
depressed
Inability to bounce back from a loss is a sign of _______
depression
According to EE, late adulthood is characterized by the stage of ego integrity vs _____.
despair
By the end of early adulthood, the skin begins to do all of the following except _____.
develop acne
Two out of three cancer deaths in the U.S. are the attribute to two controllable factors: smoking and _____.
diet
Maciejewki and his colleagues studied stages of grieving and found that _____ is the highest just after the loss and gradually lessens over the course of 2 years.
disbelief
According to _____ theory, older people and society mutually withdraw from one another as older people approach death.
disengagement
Daniel Levinson refers to the young adult's drive to leave his or her mark on history as the _____.
dream
According to Perry, assuming that the world can be easily divided into black and white, good versus bad, or us versus them, is termed _____ thinking.
dualistic
Presbyopia refers to loss of _____ in the eye lens.
elasticity
Arnett considers _____ adulthood to be an age of instability.
emerging
It was once assumed that women whose youngest children have left home would experience a painful _____ syndrome.
empty nest
Research into middle-aged people has found that they
encounter little decline in physical prowess
When supporting a dying person, all of the following are helpful suggestions except _____.
encouraging the person to go through the stages of dying in order
Your life _______ refers to the number of years you can look forward to living in your population group and under your life circumstances.
expectancy
All of the following are recommended by the text as way of helping overweight people lose weight except _____.
exposing oneself to temptations and saying no
In middle age, ____ normally replaces lean body mass, so the BMI rises.
fat
Alzheimer's disease is the _____ leading killer of older Americans.
fifth
The last stage in Kubler Ross stages of dying is _____.
final acceptance
Piaget's final stage of cognitive development is the _____.
formal operational stage
Research suggests that it might be possible to ward off the ill effects of _____ radicals with antioxidants.
free
Which of the following cognitive facilities is most likely to increase or expand in middle adulthood?
general knowledge
When Van Hiel and colleagues looked into generativity and stagnation they found that?
generativity and stagnation are independent dimensions
Which of the following cannot be treated successfully with antibiotics?
genital herpes
Men in the U.S. are likely to die earlier than women for all of the following reasons except that men
have a lower income
According to a Pew Research Center survey, more than three never-married women in four are likely to consider _____ very important in choosing a spouse or partner.
having a steady job
The most serious fracture that results from osteoporosis is fracture of the
hip
The concept of like marrying like is termed _____.
homogamy
The most common chronic health condition among people in late adulthood is
hypertension
According to Abigail Stewart and her colleagues, believing that one will seize opportunities and be of a clear mind about what one can accomplish are aspects of _____ certainty.
identity
Which of the following is a programmed theory of aging?
immunological theory
Older adults tend to do about as well as younger adults in performing cognitive tasks that measure _____ memory.
implicit
In the Arnett survey, when 18-32 y/o were asked if they felt like they reached adulthood, the largest number said _____.
in some ways yes, in other ways no
Older people typically report preferring to live
in their own homes
An estrogen deficit in a woman may lead to any of the following symptoms except ____.
increased fertility
Older adults may be reluctant to relocate to nursing homes because nursing homes signify the loss of _____.
independence
According to Sternberg, people who experience nothing but passion for one another are experiencing the kind of love relationship that he terms with _____.
infatuation
Individuation is the process of becoming an individual by _____.
integrating one's own values with those of parents and society
The body's system of skin, hair, and nails is called the _____ system.
integumentary
All of the following are factors in the big five except
intelligence
Which of the following life issues tends to increase in importance as couples reach their 60s?
intimacy
According to Erik Erikson, the life crisis of early adulthood is intimacy versus _____.
isolation
Which of the following is true of the life review?
it is normal aspect of aging
The most accurate statement about sexuality in couples in late adulthood is that
it is variable1
"The green-eyed monster" is _____.
jealousy
According to Sternbergs theory of love, love can have all of the following components except _____.
jealousy
Arthritis is an inflammation of the _____.
joints
Cataracts cloud the ______ of the eyes, reducing vision.
lenses
As compared with couples in midlife, older couples show more affectionate behavior when they discuss conflicts and they disagree with one another more/less?
less
The _____ will is a legal doc that people usually draft before a terminal illness...
living
Of the following, the most common type of cancer is _____.
lung and bronchus cancer
In middle age, the hair grays because of lessened production of ____.
melanin
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by
memory loss
The source of stress most commonly reported by 18-32 year old's is _____.
money
In the practice of serial ___, a single person has consecutive exclusive sexual relationships.
monogamy
Which of the following does not describe or characterize gay men or lesbians in long-term intimate relationships?
more alcohol and drug abuse
The term _____ is synonymous with grief over the death of a person, but also describes culturally prescribed ways of displaying grief.
mourning
Depression can be connected with the big five factor of _____.
neuroticism
"Dowager's hump" is a result of _______.
osteoporosis
Hospices provide _____ care, treatment focused on the relief of pain and suffering.
palliative
Actions that hasten death by means of withholding potentially life-saving treatments are known as _____.
passive euthanasia
A study found that African Americans who attend church regularly live an average of 13 years longer than those who never attend. As a skeptical scientist, you recognize that this study may show that
people who attend church differ from those who do not
Research by Alyssa Zucker and her colleagues found that as women develop from their 20s to their 60s, they experience a decline in _____.
personal distress
According to Sprecher and her colleagues, ____ is the key factor in consideration of partners for dates, sex, and long-term relationships.
physical appearance
Socioemotional selectivity theory proposes that people
place more emphasis on emotional experience as they age
The term _____ refers to the fact that people's intellectual abilities are not absolutely fixed but can be modified under certain conditions at almost any time in life.
placticity
The location of death for the greatest number of hospice patients is a _____.
private residence
The fact that Jean Piaget rode a bicycle at a very advanced age suggests that people can maintain _____ memories for a lifetime.
procedural
In a multicultural society or on a college campus, students may realize that judgments of good or bad are often made from a certain belief system, such as religion or a cultural background, so that such judgments actually represent _____ thinking rather than absolute judgments.
realistic
Men appear to be more attracted to women who are shown against _____ colored backgrounds.
red
Which of the following is not one of Robert Peck's developmental tasks for late adulthood?
retirement vs work-role preoccupation
Children are more likely than adults to believe that death is _____.
reversible
Middle-aged adults who care for aging parents and their own children said to belong to the _____ generation.
sandwich
Terminal _____ is the practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill patient in the last hours or days of his or her life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous infusion of a sedative drug.
sedation
Daniel Levinson and his colleagues believe that the later 30s are characterized by _____.
settling down or planting roots
Which of the following risk factors for heart disease is controllable?
smoking
In keeping with _____ theory, people who age successfully tend to seek emotional fulfillment by reshaping their lives to concentrate on what they find to be important and meaningful.
socioemotional selectivity
According to Erik Erikson, the life crisis of middle adulthood is generativity versus _____.
stagnation
Jack Kevorkian was founded guilty of 2nd degree homicide for his practicing of physician-assisted _____.
suicide
A factor that aids in the stability of same-sex couples is they _____.
tend to distribute household chores more evenly than heterosexual couples do
Kubler ross carried out her research with _____.
terminally ill patients
All of the following sexual changes tend to occur in men in late adulthood except
termination of sexual fantasies
Experience with death challenges the adolescent sense of immortality that is connected with _____.
the personal fable
Research into Levinson's concept of midlife crisis has found that _____.
there may not be such a thing as a midlife crisis as Levinson envisioned it
Efforts to diet may be sabotaged by a bodily mechanism called adaptive _____ which slows the body's metabolic rate.
thermogenesis
Ego _____ means preparing in some way to go beyond the physical limitations of one's own life span.
transcedence
According to Daniel Levinson, the years of 40-45 comprise a midlife _____.
transition
Medical opinion asserted that Terri Schiavos state was persistently _____ as she lay sustained by a feeding tube.
vegetative
Throughout adulthood, a person's _____ is most likely to remain stable.
verbal ability
Erikson and Havighurst have both been criticized for their view that _____.
young adults who remain celibate or single are not developing normally