THEM 2600- Sarah Higginbotham

According to your reading, which one of the following best indicates reasons served as older adults' motive to travel in 80s and 90s?

All of the above

In comparing the traditional medial with social media, which one of the following is true in describing new features of social media

All of the above

In tourism research, it was revealed that there are differences between men and women travelers regarding to their leisure activity participation. Which one(s) of the following was/were identified as older women's preferences?

All of the above

Many travel barriers were identified by tourism research and were discussed in our textbook as well. Which one of the followings best describe older adults' travel barriers?

All of the above

Tourism is a business involving in the entire destination community. Numerous civic groups, government agencies, or local companies could play a role in tourism development and service. Which one of the following could serve as a tourism organization

All of the above

Many unique travel behaviors of older adults were identified by tourism research. Which one of the followings is NOT one of these identified behaviors among older travelers

Enjoy meeting someone new

ADL stand for activity of daily living. It means every older adult needs to do exercise everyday

False

According to textbook, benefit of uses of ICT among older adults classified into two categories: social uses and instrumental uses. Social uses mean to use ICT to search information without direct interaction with other; while instrumental uses mean to use ICT to maintain their social ties

False

Brain Drain is a demographic term describing how older adults migrate from states situated in cold regions, such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York to places with warmer climate conditions, like Florida, South Carolina, and Arizona.

False

Even though there are inactivity elements described in both disengagement theory and activity theory, there are no differences between them.

False

Freud's psychoanalytic theory discussed the three levels of human awareness : precociousness becomes unconsciousness lead to consciousness

False

Grandparent may play important roles in a family to support grand children, majority grandparents often engage in child care and education in daily basis

False

In Activity Theory, Lemon (1972) classified three forms of social activities, including formal activity, informal activity and hybrid activities

False

In Erickson's Developmental Theory, he describes that older ages, usually not until 60 year old and beyond, start showing the sign of stagnation.

False

In tourism industry, as emerging market segment of older travelers keep growing, the new term Grey market tries to describe those senior travelers while Matured market refers to middle-aged travelers

False

Life span and Life expectancy can be simply looked at as the same concept, they are not much different, because they both describe how many years we can live up to in the future

False

Life span and Life expectancy can be simply looked at as the same concept, they are not much different, because they both describe how many years we can live up to in the future.

False

Older adults tend to gain more confidence when they aged and believe that they are still very competitive or in control in their lives.

False

Place attachment is a construct often used to describe a person who does not have any interest to travel

False

Textbook discussed difference between older travelers vs. millennials regrading to their travel information sources. Older adults tend to rely on more social media other than mass media

False

The Cross-Linking Theory found that glucose reacts with protein and forms chains, introducing stiffness and accelerating aging. Research found Vitamin C and E may accelerate these cross-linking activities.

False

There are two popular research methods often used for studying aging Cross-sectional study and longitudinal study. The longitudinal study focus on comparison of individuals at different ages.

False

Traditionally, travel agency play pivotal role to provide travel related information to their clients and serve for their travel interest. however, based on what we read from our textbook, that travel agency will not survive from the magnificent impact of digital information economy.

False

When Textbook introduce age typology, it discussed chronological age, biological age, social age and psychological age. When John is 65 years old, some of his colleagues keep wondering why he has not retired yet: coworkers' thought explains the concept of psychological age.

False

When Textbook introduce age typology, it discussed chronological age, biological age, social age and psychological age. When John is 65 years old, some of his coworkers keep wondering why he has not retired yet: This reflects the concept of "psychological age."

False

This chapter of textbook start with introducing two legendary stories: The first emperor of ancient China, Qin Shi Huang, his tireless effort in searching for life eternity and at the medieval Europe, Christian Kingdom of Prester John's treasure and fountain of youth. what is the implication of ancient story carried regarding to a popular concern of human's aging? What is your position about biological aging process -- do you support Longevity to live forever or rather follow the biological clock, cycle it naturally?

I think the implication of the ancient story is that no matter how hard you try, aging is going to happen no matter what you try to do to stop it. I'm a very academically inclined person and so I would love to live forever in order to learn about everything. While I would love to learn about anything and everything, I think following one's biological clock is more ideal. I would prefer it just in the fact that I wouldn't want to outlive my entire group of friends and family.

There are a few of common functionalities of social media has been identified by researchers, that may include which one of the followings?

Only a and b (a. Identity, conversation, sharing, and presence b. relationships, reputation, and groups)

There are stereotype views on older adults when talking about ICT; which one of the following statements is NOT true

Primary age group who frequently use social media is older adults

Please elaborate difference between the concepts of primary control vs. secondary control

Primary control is the behavior directed at a person's outside environment to change things to meet their needs and goals. Secondary is the behavior that targets the internal environment in order to minimize losses and maintain control of the environment.

According to your reading, which of the following are identified as forms of nostalgia tourism?

Reflective and restorative

Nostalgia tourism refers to tourists traveling to a destination which may help to revive their past

True

Please briefly discuss age-related changes in one's cardiovascular system.

The biggest age-related change to the cardiovascular system is the deterioration of the heart and the muscles around it. Aging makes the arteries within the heart harden and lose the ability to dispense blood throughout the body. This causes a problem because it makes the heart work harder to pump blood throughout the body and therefore raises the individuals' blood pressure.

When the book introduced basic concepts of aging population, it discussed "Age, Aging and Ageism" Could you please describe their difference?

The concepts of age, aging, and ageism, are all very similar since they all relate to the same theme. Age is the time in which a person has been alive. Aging is the act of growing old. Ageism is the term for discrimination associated with a person's age.

Osteoporosis is a bone degeneration related disease, often seen among aged individuals. It decreases bone density and results in bone brittleness. Thus, leisure professionals should try to avoid programming with high intensified physical activities.

True

Online travel agencies have grown very fast in past two decades. Particularly, The Expedia Group became the largest online travel agency in the United States with 70 percent market share. Expedia group operate many travel sites for their services, which one of the following was NOT the one under Expedia operation?

Trip Advisor

"Prosumer" is the term that refers to social media users who may be a producer as well as consumer and may post, read, and engage in conversation as users and share content as producer

True

According to textbook, social isolation offer individual privacy, it will contribute to one's psychological well-being

True

According to the textbook, leisure was described by Geoffrey Godbey as living in relative freedom from the external compulsive forces of one's culture and physical environment. To be able to act from internally compelling love in ways which are personally pleasing and intuitively worthwhile in a basis for faith.

True

Aging is the deteriorative process of growing old. Thus, this process won't start prior to one reaching their total biological maturity.

True

Brain Drain is a demographic term describing situation that young people who are well-educated migrate from states situated in cold regions, such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York to places with warmer climate conditions, like Florida, South Carolina and Arizona.

True

CVB is an information clearing house who provides convention management consultant, serves as a liaison between meeting planners and suppliers, representsss a community. It is often regarded as one of very important DMO (destination marketing organization)

True

In Erickson's Developmental Theory, he describes older ages, those are 60 year old and beyond, start accepting the way they have lived and developed wisdom.

True

In leisure and health buffer model, Leisure contributes to social support and self-determination for an individual to copy with life stress that may lower impacts of a negative event

True

In one's urinary systems, bladders to hold urine declines with age. It is important to select a site that has an easy access to restroom and hang clear signages to direct older adults to access the toilet.

True

In our textbook, Lee and his colleagues studied older visitors vs. younger visitors in natural scenic sites, they reported seniors engaged in light outdoor activities such as sightseeing, while younger visitors participated more physically intense outdoor activities, (e.g. hiking)

True

In tourism research, the subjective age or felt age, it is also refers to self-perceived age, or cognitive age was recognized much difference from one's Chronological age, many older adults tend to think they are about 10 -15 years younger than their actual ages

True

Leisure often create a sense of companionship, leading to friendship, a type of social network that allow interpersonal transaction.

True

Max O2 is a measurement of one's lung capacity for maximum consumption of oxygen.

True

Max O2 is a measurement of one's lung capacity for one's maximum consumption of oxygen.

True

Osteoporosis is a bone degeneration related disease, often seen among aged individuals. It decreases bone density and results in bone brittleness. Thus, leisure professionals should try to avoid programming with high intensity activities.

True

Physical activities play a vital role for older adults to enjoy longer lives and sustain their independent lifestyles. The National Institute of Aging recommends four types of basic exercises for every older individual to do on a daily basis. These four forms of exercise include: endurance, strength, balance, and flexibility.

True

SOC stand for selection, optimization and compensation. SOC encourages to narrow down one's interests in order to focus on the selected domain and maintain the level of competency.

True

Self-efficacy describe an individual believes that he or she is capable of the specific behavior needed to produce a desired outcome.

True

Social emotional selective theory suggest older adult prefer to socially interact with their family members and close friend as they are growing into old ages

True

Textbook introduced the concept of oldest old, it means those who lived to 85 years old and beyond.

True

The Theory of Wear and Tear implies that the more something is used, the faster it will be worn out. Therefore, we should be more cautious when schedule physical exercise for older adults.

True

The Theory of Wear and Tear implies that the more something is used, the faster it will be worn out. Therefore, we should limit older adults' participation in any form of physical activity.

True

The concept of Secondary Aging helps us to understand individual difference in term of their path of aging process. Some individual has an accelerated aging process due to disease or harmful environmental factor or unhealthy life style.

True

The concept of secondary Aging helps us to understand individual difference in term of their path of aging process. Some individual has an accelerated aging process due to disease or harmful environmental factor or unhealthy life style.

True

The continuity theory was described as an integrative view because it integrate both views of the activity theory and the disengagement theory for the successful aging

True

The relationship between leisure and life satisfaction was found that the higher leisure satisfaction one may have, the higher life satisfaction the one will gain

True

To have true leisure experience, people should have experienced the following attributes for their leisure participation: Freedom, Perceived competence, Locus control, Positive affect, and Intrinsic motivation

True

When Jenny break up with her boyfriend, her sister called her and chat with Jenny on the phone for hours trying to comfort you, her sister's support refer to emotional support

True

When one grows old, all five senses tend to decline but the senses of taste and smell which only declines slightly over times.

True

Young-old are a sub group representing older adults aged 65-74. Most of them are in their early retirement, maintain good health, and love to travel.

True