Adulthood Review Questions

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

A 65-year-old man smoked all his life and now has ____________________ a combination of chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Osteoarthritis

A 72-year-old woman has been told by her physician that, because she is obese, she is putting increased weight on her joints, thus increasing her risk of developing the musculoskeletal disease know as :

Flashbulb

According to research on ______________ memory, older adults are able to remember distinctive historical events as well as do younger adults.

Inhibitory deficit

According to the _________________ hypothesis about the effects of aging on attention, older adults take longer to respond because they are unable to ignore distracting or interfering stimuli.

Age-related macular degenration

Central vision is affected but peripheral vision is maintained in which cause of blindness in later life?

Working Memory

Changes in which types of memory are most likely to affect the ability of an older adult to put words together in a sentence to convey the intended meaning ?

Collagen

Changes with age in the dermis layer of the skin are associated with age related alterations in elastin and which other proteins, also found in connective tissue throughout the body

N-back task

In an _________________, used to assess working memory, participants are asked to name earlier items presented in a series.

Presbyopia

Normal age-related changes in the lens of the eye results in which condition that afflicts all older adults?

Parallel processing

On simple search tasks, where targets stand out relatively easily from distractors, older adults perform at high levels, because these tasks require:

Well-defined

Problems in everyday life that are the easiest to solve for older adults are those that :

Neuronal Fallout Model

Researchers who study the aging of the central nervous system contrast the view that growth is always possible with the model statin that aging cause inevitable degeneration , known as the:

Muscle

Sarcopenia is associated with age-related changes in the ______________?

Reserve capacity

Testing the limits is a method used in studies of aging and cognition to demonstrate which principle related to plasticity?

Frontal lobe functioning

The Trail Making Test is used in a neuropsychological assessment to evaluate the older adult's :

General slowing hypothesis

The _____________________________ proposes that older adults become slower primarily because of nervous system changes.

Executive functioning

The abilities to plan, use working memory, allocate mental resources to incoming tasks, and inhibit information are included in the cognitive skill know in psychology as :

Instrumental activity of daily living

The ability to go shopping and handle finances falls under which measure of independent functioning?

Harmful alcohol use

The behavioral risk factors for chronic diseases in later adulthood include tobacco smoking, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and _______________.

Classic-aging

The idea that intelligence tests such as the WAIS-IV show a peak in overall IQ in early adulthood is called the ___________________ pattern.

Self regulation and driving

The model of ____________________________ predicts that an older adult will continue to drive depends on the psychological factors of self-confidence and need for independence.

Beta Amyloid

The plaques found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease are made up of which substance?

Growth Hormone and Insuline-like Growth Factor

The somatopause of aging involves changes in which hormones?

Semantic

Vocabulary, factual information, historical knowledge fall into the category ______________ memory, a process not

Elderspeak

________________ is a speech pattern directed at older adult similar to the way people talk to babies.

Prebycusis

__________________ is the most common form of hearing loss caused mainly by exposure to loud noise.

Crystalized

___________________ refers to the acquisition of specific skills and info people gain as a result of exposure to language, knowledge, and conventions of culture

Arteriosclerosis

______________________ refers to the thickening and hardening of arteries.