Adult & Aging Chpt 1

By 2015, the percentage of people in the United States population 65 years and older is:

14.9

Because the state of _______________ has such a high percentage of adults 65 and older, political candidates put heavy emphasis into making promises about Medicare and Social Security when they campaign there.

Florida

How does the fact that older adults are survivors influence research on aging?

The available samples are positively selected on important characteristics.

Researchers studying the volume of the hippocampus within the brain showed the importance of examining individual differences in aging by finding that

at least some older adults studied had equal or higher brain volume than some young adults.

Which of the following would be considered a "social" age-related factor in the biopsychosocial perspective?

becoming a grandparent

Sex refers to the __________, whereas gender refers to the __________.

biological dimension; social/cultural dimension.

Of the following areas of aging, which would be considered a "biological" component of the biopsychosocial model?

changes in muscle mass

The ________________ principle of adult development and aging proposes that changes build on themselves over life in a cumulative fashion.

continuity

The number of years a person can expect to live with relatively little disability is known as

health expectancy

75-year-old Mrs. A. has difficulty with her vision due to cataracts but her friend Mrs. B., also 75, can see perfectly. However, Mrs. B.'s arthritis makes it difficult for her to walk while Mrs. A. recently ran a senior marathon. This example illustrates which principle of adult development and aging?

interindividual differences

The large impact that Hurricane Sandy had on residents of the Northeast U.S. in 2012 makes it a ________________ influence on development.

normative history-graded

The changes that individuals experience in income and residence when they retire and move out of the home where they spent their working lives would fall into the ____________ domain of the biopsychosocial model.

social

The term life ______ refers to the maximum number of years that a species lives, reflecting its genetic inheritance.

span

Because the _____________ are the individuals we study in later life, researchers caution that the findings may not be true for everyone born in a given period of time.

survivors

The rapid loss of functioning that individuals may experience at the very end of their lives is known as _________ aging:

tertiary