Quiz 8

The average adult in middle adulthood ______ height and ______ weight.

Losses; gains

According to the Mitchell & Helson study, conditions that distinguished the lives of women in their early fifties from those of women in other age periods included all of the following Except:

Lower health.

Through _____ generativity, adults nurture and guide children.

Parental

What was the average life expectancy in 1900?

47 years

According to Levinson, the transition to middle adulthood lasts about _____ years.

5

George Vaillant concludes that the ____ are a decade of reasoning and recording the truth about the adolescent and adulthood years.

Forties

Middle-aged Americans agree that a major component of their well-being involves:

positive relationships

Cohorts refer to:

groups of individuals born in the same year or time period.

In the United States, approximately ______ of individuals 40 to 59 years of age are employed.

80 percent

Almost half of the grandchildren who move in with grandparents are raised by:

A single grandmother

Which of the following is an example of a nonfatal chronic disorder?

Bursitis

The majority of sibling relationships in adulthood are ______.

Close

Daniel Levinson's studies suggest that most adults feel that middle age is a time of:

Crisis.

John Horn maintains that in middle adulthood, _____ intelligence continues to increase.

Crystallized

It is common non-industrialized societies to:

Describe individuals as young or old but not as middle-aged.

_____ occurs at an above-average rate among Latinos.

Diabetes

In menopause, production of ____ by the ovaries declines dramatically.

Estrogen

Erkison proposed that middle aged adults face a significant issue which he termed _____.

Generativity versus stagnation

Why is LDL referred to as "bad" cholesterol?

High levels of LDL cause atherosclerosis

During middle age, the ability to hear _____ sounds declines first.

High-pitched

According to the contemporary life events approach, the influence of life events also depends on all of the following factors, Except the _____.

Individuals cognitive capacity

_____ was the main cause of death in the United States until the middle of the twentieth century.

Infectious disease

Cross cultural studies show that in non-industrialized countries the concept of middle age is:

Is not very clear, or in some cases is absent.

Treatment for men with erectile dysfunction has focused on Viagra and similar drugs, such as:

Levitra and Cialis

A girl's first menstruation is called ______.

Menarche

According to Lachman, researchers have found that on average a sense of personal control peaks in _____ and then declines.

Midlife

What percentage of Americans consider themselves to be religious?

More than 70 percent

According to research by Rossi, which of the following were found to have the closest relationships during their adult years?

Mothers and daughters

A meta-analysis revealed that ______ was linked to pursuing entrepreneurial goals such as starting a new business, and to success in those pursuits.

Openness.

The Seattle Longitudinal Study concluded that middle age is a time of:

Peak performance for verbal ability.

The term ____ is given to age-related loss of muscle mass and strength.

Sarcopenia

Which of the following are prematurely aging cells that result from persistent immune activation?

Senescent T cells

Sleep problems in middle-aged adults have been associated with all of the following EXCEPT:

Single parenting

The timetable according to which individuals are expected to accomplish life's tasks, such as getting married, having children, or establishing, themselves in a career is known as the _____.

Social clock

According to Levinson, the ____ rests on how effectively the individual reduces the polarities and accepts each of them as an integral part of his being.

Success of the midlife transition

According to cognitive aging expert Denise Park, the slowdown in learning new information has been linked to changes in:

Working memory

Crystallized intelligence is:

an individual's accumulated information and verbal skills.

Middle-age partners are more likely to view their marriage as positive if they:

engage in mutual activities.

When men face stress, they are more likely to respond in a:

fight or flight manner

In middle age, the role of work ____ in people's lives.

is very central