Psych 420 Test 3 Jeopardy Questions

In a classic study, Judith Rodin and Ellen Langar found that an important factor related to health, and even survival in a nursing home is the:

Patients feeling of control and self determination

Prejudice against a person on the basis of their age is called:

ageism

Older adults need to _____ when life tasks require a higher level of capacity.

compensate

Remembering where a person went on vacation last summer is an example of _____ memory.

episodic

Life ____ is the number of years that the average person born in a particular year will probably live.

expectancy

Lillian is 50 years old. Her doctor has noticed a sharp decrease in her estrogen levels, and Lillian is complaining of nausea and fatigue. Based on these symptoms, what could be her initial diagnosis?

menopause

In many cultures, especially unindustrialized cultures, the concept of middle age is:

not very clear or absent in some cases

When he was interviewed at 80 years of age, Arthur Rubinstein said he spend more time at practice than earlier in his life. This helped to maintain his status as an admired pianist. This reflect the ____ aspect of Bates theory.

optimization

This is the term for the type of care hospice emphasizes:

palliative care

Basilio sustained sever and irreversible brain damage due to an accidental overdose of insulin. His wife and children decided to remove the life-support system, and Basilio subsequently died. This is an example of ______ euthanasia.

passive

The life expectancy in Okinawa, Japan is:

81.2 years

Middle adulthood consists of this age range:

40/45-60/65

When women experience stress, they are more likely to engage in:

A tend and befriend pattern

Types of NCDs include:

Alzheimer's, dementia, and Lewy body syndrome

This is the reason for decrease in height with age advancement:

Bone loss in the vertebrae

In Erikson's theory _____ encompasses adults desire to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation.

Generativity

If the cortical death definition were adopted, then physician could claim a person is dead when his or her ____ brain is no longer functioning.

Higher

Most noticeable physical change in middle adulthood:

Wrinkles and age spots, shorter with aging due to bone loss in their vertebrae, older adults move slowly

In 1900 most people died here:

at home

_______ illness is long term, often lifelong, and requires long-term, if not life-term management:

chronic

At present, the main causes of death in middle adulthood in the U.S. are:

chronic diseases

What is the biological theory of aging state that people age because when cells metabolize energy, the by-products contain unstable oxygen molecules?

free radical theory

What is the idea that an aging society is using all the resources, and none will be left for a younger generation?

generational inequity

The main goal of hospice is to:

provide patients a comfortable death that is as pain free as possible

The tendency of middle-aged adults having to care for their own adolescent children as well as their elderly parents has given them the nickname the ____ generation.

sandwich

______ develops when individuals sense that they have done nothing for the next generation.

stagnation

One important essential prerequisite to signing an advance directive, such as a living will, is:

the individual can think clearly

Violetta believes that older adults become more selective about their social networks as they age. She is a proponent of:

the socioemotional selective theory

The concept of ____ emphasizes that the changes in cognitive activity patterns might result in disuse and consequent atrophy of cognitive.

use it or lose it

_____ is expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life that permits practical judgement about important matters.

wisdom