DEP 2004 Final Exam

In the years 2008-2010, an estimated _____ people received hospice care each year.

1,5000,000

Which age group is most likely to report that the amount of stress they are experiencing has increased over the past 5 years?

18-32

About how many aging parents live near a child?

2/3

The average person retiring at the age of 65 has about _____ of life to look forward to.

20 years

A woman's lifetime risk of developing cancer at any or all sites is 1 in

3

The CDC recommends that adults engage in at least _____ minutes of vigorous physical activity five days a week.

30

After age _____, women who become pregnant are usually advised to have their fetuses checked for Down's syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities.

35

Most developmentalists believe that midlife begins around the ages of

35 and 40

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approx. _____% of 18-24 y/o are either overweight or obese.

40

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross claimed that there are _____ stages of the brain dying.

5

In a study of women aged 22-35, 36-49, or 50-62 who were seeking employment, the women aged _____ were most likely to accept jobs low in pay as long as they liked work.

50-62

What % of LBGT adults aged 60-91 reported good or excellent mental health in a research study?

75%

About _____ million male-female couples are cohabiting in the U.S. today.

8

Cigarette smoking causes _____% of lung cancer deaths in the U.S.

87

_____ Americans have higher than average rates of colorectal cancer and deaths from that disease.

African

_____ _____ is the most common lifestyle for Americans in their early 20s.

Being single

People who live in which of the following countries have the greatest life expectancy?

Cuba

Which of the following is not true about depression in late adulthood?

Depression and sadness are pretty much the same thing in late adulthood.

Which of the following is accurate about the prevalence of sexual dysfunctions?

Estimates of their prevalence vary widely.

_____ psychologists believe that gender differences in preferences for mates persist because they have been connected with reproductive advantages.

Evolutionary

The _____ Effect refers to the research finding that IQ scores in the U.S. increased an average of 18 points between 1947 and 2002.

Flynn

Alexandra Rusconi compared Germany and Italy and found that

Germans normally set up independent homes prior to marriage.

The most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States is:

HPV

_____ memories are automatic and recall the performance of tasks such as reciting the alphabet or multiplication tables, riding a bike, or using a doorknob.

Implicit

_____ _____ was the first researcher to propose a theory of grief.

John Bowlby

_____ memory has no known limits.

Long-term

Which is true of body esteem in late adulthood?

Older men express lower body esteem than older women do

Which of the following statements about stress is accurate?

Stress suppresses the immune system.

What is the relationship between cohabitation and subsequent divorce?

There is a positive correlation between cohabitation and divorce.

The leading cause of death among young adults is _____.

accidents

Among 25 to 44 year old's, the leading cause of death is _____.

accidents/injuries

According to _____ theory, we would expect that people who are better adjusted to retirement will be doing many things rather than taking it easy.

activity

In the big five personality model, as people develop from middle age to late adulthood, they tend to show a rise in the trait of _____.

agreeableness

People who are lonely have been shown to have all of the following characteristics except _____.

an inadequate standard of living

Researchers investigating DNA have found that the production of _____ declines with age, rendering the body less able to fight off infections.

antibodies

In middle adulthood, most sibling relationships

are close

When we compare friendships in middle adulthood to those in early adulthood, we find that those in middle adulthood

are more similar to their friends than early adults are

Heart disease most commonly results from_____.

arteriosclerosis/atherosclerosis

Which of the following is an emotional state of longing and deprivation that is characterized by a deep sense of loss?

bereavement

Young adults who leave home and then return because of financial need have been referred to as the _____ generation.

boomerang

Medical and legal professionals generally use _____ death as the standard for determining that a person has died.

brain

The concept of whole brain death refers to death of the brain and the _____.

brain stem

Between the ages of 45 and 64, _____ is the leading cause of death.

cancer

By the ages of 25-44, which of the following replaces homicide as the second leading cause of death?

cancer

Which of the following substances is most likely to accelerate the heart rate and constrict the arteries?

cocaine

As people mature, Labouvie-Vief found that they tend to develop a _____ complexity that enables them to harbor both positive and negative feelings about their career choices.

cognitive affective

Alziemers disease is the most common cause of a broader category of cognitive impairments termed _____.

dementia

A survey of Detroit men ranging from the age 20-93 found that men w/o close social ties were significantly more _____ than men with relationships.

depressed

Inability to bounce back from a loss is a sign of _______

depression

According to EE, late adulthood is characterized by the stage of ego integrity vs _____.

despair

By the end of early adulthood, the skin begins to do all of the following except _____.

develop acne

Two out of three cancer deaths in the U.S. are the attribute to two controllable factors: smoking and _____.

diet

Maciejewki and his colleagues studied stages of grieving and found that _____ is the highest just after the loss and gradually lessens over the course of 2 years.

disbelief

According to _____ theory, older people and society mutually withdraw from one another as older people approach death.

disengagement

Daniel Levinson refers to the young adult's drive to leave his or her mark on history as the _____.

dream

According to Perry, assuming that the world can be easily divided into black and white, good versus bad, or us versus them, is termed _____ thinking.

dualistic

Presbyopia refers to loss of _____ in the eye lens.

elasticity

Arnett considers _____ adulthood to be an age of instability.

emerging

It was once assumed that women whose youngest children have left home would experience a painful _____ syndrome.

empty nest

Research into middle-aged people has found that they

encounter little decline in physical prowess

When supporting a dying person, all of the following are helpful suggestions except _____.

encouraging the person to go through the stages of dying in order

Your life _______ refers to the number of years you can look forward to living in your population group and under your life circumstances.

expectancy

All of the following are recommended by the text as way of helping overweight people lose weight except _____.

exposing oneself to temptations and saying no

In middle age, ____ normally replaces lean body mass, so the BMI rises.

fat

Alzheimer's disease is the _____ leading killer of older Americans.

fifth

The last stage in Kubler Ross stages of dying is _____.

final acceptance

Piaget's final stage of cognitive development is the _____.

formal operational stage

Research suggests that it might be possible to ward off the ill effects of _____ radicals with antioxidants.

free

Which of the following cognitive facilities is most likely to increase or expand in middle adulthood?

general knowledge

When Van Hiel and colleagues looked into generativity and stagnation they found that?

generativity and stagnation are independent dimensions

Which of the following cannot be treated successfully with antibiotics?

genital herpes

Men in the U.S. are likely to die earlier than women for all of the following reasons except that men

have a lower income

According to a Pew Research Center survey, more than three never-married women in four are likely to consider _____ very important in choosing a spouse or partner.

having a steady job

The most serious fracture that results from osteoporosis is fracture of the

hip

The concept of like marrying like is termed _____.

homogamy

The most common chronic health condition among people in late adulthood is

hypertension

According to Abigail Stewart and her colleagues, believing that one will seize opportunities and be of a clear mind about what one can accomplish are aspects of _____ certainty.

identity

Which of the following is a programmed theory of aging?

immunological theory

Older adults tend to do about as well as younger adults in performing cognitive tasks that measure _____ memory.

implicit

In the Arnett survey, when 18-32 y/o were asked if they felt like they reached adulthood, the largest number said _____.

in some ways yes, in other ways no

Older people typically report preferring to live

in their own homes

An estrogen deficit in a woman may lead to any of the following symptoms except ____.

increased fertility

Older adults may be reluctant to relocate to nursing homes because nursing homes signify the loss of _____.

independence

According to Sternberg, people who experience nothing but passion for one another are experiencing the kind of love relationship that he terms with _____.

infatuation

Individuation is the process of becoming an individual by _____.

integrating one's own values with those of parents and society

The body's system of skin, hair, and nails is called the _____ system.

integumentary

All of the following are factors in the big five except

intelligence

Which of the following life issues tends to increase in importance as couples reach their 60s?

intimacy

According to Erik Erikson, the life crisis of early adulthood is intimacy versus _____.

isolation

Which of the following is true of the life review?

it is normal aspect of aging

The most accurate statement about sexuality in couples in late adulthood is that

it is variable1

"The green-eyed monster" is _____.

jealousy

According to Sternbergs theory of love, love can have all of the following components except _____.

jealousy

Arthritis is an inflammation of the _____.

joints

Cataracts cloud the ______ of the eyes, reducing vision.

lenses

As compared with couples in midlife, older couples show more affectionate behavior when they discuss conflicts and they disagree with one another more/less?

less

The _____ will is a legal doc that people usually draft before a terminal illness...

living

Of the following, the most common type of cancer is _____.

lung and bronchus cancer

In middle age, the hair grays because of lessened production of ____.

melanin

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by

memory loss

The source of stress most commonly reported by 18-32 year old's is _____.

money

In the practice of serial ___, a single person has consecutive exclusive sexual relationships.

monogamy

Which of the following does not describe or characterize gay men or lesbians in long-term intimate relationships?

more alcohol and drug abuse

The term _____ is synonymous with grief over the death of a person, but also describes culturally prescribed ways of displaying grief.

mourning

Depression can be connected with the big five factor of _____.

neuroticism

"Dowager's hump" is a result of _______.

osteoporosis

Hospices provide _____ care, treatment focused on the relief of pain and suffering.

palliative

Actions that hasten death by means of withholding potentially life-saving treatments are known as _____.

passive euthanasia

A study found that African Americans who attend church regularly live an average of 13 years longer than those who never attend. As a skeptical scientist, you recognize that this study may show that

people who attend church differ from those who do not

Research by Alyssa Zucker and her colleagues found that as women develop from their 20s to their 60s, they experience a decline in _____.

personal distress

According to Sprecher and her colleagues, ____ is the key factor in consideration of partners for dates, sex, and long-term relationships.

physical appearance

Socioemotional selectivity theory proposes that people

place more emphasis on emotional experience as they age

The term _____ refers to the fact that people's intellectual abilities are not absolutely fixed but can be modified under certain conditions at almost any time in life.

placticity

The location of death for the greatest number of hospice patients is a _____.

private residence

The fact that Jean Piaget rode a bicycle at a very advanced age suggests that people can maintain _____ memories for a lifetime.

procedural

In a multicultural society or on a college campus, students may realize that judgments of good or bad are often made from a certain belief system, such as religion or a cultural background, so that such judgments actually represent _____ thinking rather than absolute judgments.

realistic

Men appear to be more attracted to women who are shown against _____ colored backgrounds.

red

Which of the following is not one of Robert Peck's developmental tasks for late adulthood?

retirement vs work-role preoccupation

Children are more likely than adults to believe that death is _____.

reversible

Middle-aged adults who care for aging parents and their own children said to belong to the _____ generation.

sandwich

Terminal _____ is the practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill patient in the last hours or days of his or her life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous infusion of a sedative drug.

sedation

Daniel Levinson and his colleagues believe that the later 30s are characterized by _____.

settling down or planting roots

Which of the following risk factors for heart disease is controllable?

smoking

In keeping with _____ theory, people who age successfully tend to seek emotional fulfillment by reshaping their lives to concentrate on what they find to be important and meaningful.

socioemotional selectivity

According to Erik Erikson, the life crisis of middle adulthood is generativity versus _____.

stagnation

Jack Kevorkian was founded guilty of 2nd degree homicide for his practicing of physician-assisted _____.

suicide

A factor that aids in the stability of same-sex couples is they _____.

tend to distribute household chores more evenly than heterosexual couples do

Kubler ross carried out her research with _____.

terminally ill patients

All of the following sexual changes tend to occur in men in late adulthood except

termination of sexual fantasies

Experience with death challenges the adolescent sense of immortality that is connected with _____.

the personal fable

Research into Levinson's concept of midlife crisis has found that _____.

there may not be such a thing as a midlife crisis as Levinson envisioned it

Efforts to diet may be sabotaged by a bodily mechanism called adaptive _____ which slows the body's metabolic rate.

thermogenesis

Ego _____ means preparing in some way to go beyond the physical limitations of one's own life span.

transcedence

According to Daniel Levinson, the years of 40-45 comprise a midlife _____.

transition

Medical opinion asserted that Terri Schiavos state was persistently _____ as she lay sustained by a feeding tube.

vegetative

Throughout adulthood, a person's _____ is most likely to remain stable.

verbal ability

Erikson and Havighurst have both been criticized for their view that _____.

young adults who remain celibate or single are not developing normally