Geron Final

Exposure to the asbestos increases an individual's risk of developing _______ cancer.

lungs

Virtual reality memory training, in which older adults simulated walking through various places, was found to benefit which type of cognitive ability?

verbal memory

Psychologists diagnosing Alzheimer's disease look for which key symptom in its early stage?

forgetting names of good friends or family

In the Type A behavior pattern, high scores on hostility seem strongly related to which health outcome?

Cardiovascular disease

The World Health Organization defines health as having which qualities?

Complete physical, mental, and social well-being

Because most adults in our society have internalized society's norms about what's right and wrong but do not necessarily have a true conscience, personality theorist Loevinger believed that they fall into the _______________ stage of ego development.

Conscientious-Conformist

A psychologist consulting in a nursing home, after observing daily routine tasks performed by staff, finds that few engage in behavioral treatment for incontinence among patients. Such treatment might include which measures?

Teaching residents to strengthen their pelvic muscles

The findings on executive function and lifestyle factors from Whitehall II showed that people whose abilities declined the most also tended to: Note: Text book section Research on adult intelligence p. 154. this question had a problem on the chapter quiz and it is fixed here.

abstain from alcohol altogether

Depressive symptoms can place the older adult at risk for developing which other diseases or conditions?

arthritis

The pragmatics of intelligence, in the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm, emphasizes which type of knowledge? Note: There was a problem in the chapter 7 quiz that is fixed here see Psychology of Wisdom p. 158.

Facts and procedures about how lots of things work

Training older adults to use "deep processing" to encode information more fully would involve having them follow which procedure?

Giving meaning to information such as putting words in sentences.

In solving everyday problems, older adults typically show which pattern of performance compared to younger adults?

Higher scores on problems of an interpersonal nature.

The brain's default network, which processes internally-generated stimuli, includes which structure?

Hippocampus

Which demographic category in the U.S. now has the highest suicide rates?

Males age 45-54.

A psychological factor affecting the driving performance of older adults is:

changes in decision-time speed.

In the disease known as ________________, the heart cannot distribute enough blood throughout the body to reach the major organs, causing the tissues to swell with fluid

congestive heart failure

The ________________ principle would predict that, over time, a highly agreeable person would be more liked by other people, which would further increase that person's agreeableness over the years of adulthood

correspondence

Increases in cortisol with age are thought to have negative effects on which of the body's organs?

hippocampus

A 66-year-old woman, well past her menopause, is considering treatment to help offset cardiovascular changes and weakening of her bones. Which of the following is the most controversial of available approaches she might try in terms of overall health risks?

hormone replacement therapy

Sarcopenia is associated with age-related changes in the___________:

muscles

Clinicians seek to distinguish Alzheimer's disease from other neurocognitive disorders as soon as possible in their patients primarily because:

other disorders that look like Alzheimer's may be reversible if treated early on.

Highly creative older adults such as Grandma Moses, according to one view, are high in the quality of:

passionate commitment.

As of 2016 at least three states, Oregon, Washington, and California, permit:

physician-assisted suicide

Your best friend's grandparent always seems to have great advice whenever you are struggling in your relationship. This is because wise people are considered, in the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm, to be high in the ____________ of intelligence.

pragmatics

One way you can communicate more effectively with older adults who suffer from hearing loss is to:

reduce interference from outside noise.

The model of self-regulation and driving predicts that an older adult will continue to drive depends on the psychological factors of:

self-confidence and need for independence.

Vocabulary, factual information, and historical knowledge fall into the category of ____________ memory, a process not affected by aging.

semantic

An older adult who is living on a tight income and has to economize on the essentials of daily living should, according to the _______________, also have low levels of happiness and life satisfaction.

social indicator model

Supporting the theory known as ____________, Isaacowitz's research on eye movements showed that older people prefer to look at the happy parts of a face.

socioemotional selectivity

The Five Factor model of personality fits into which overall category of psychological theories?

trait