Exam 1 Review (Ch. 1, 2, 3, 13)

People now considered super centenarians live past the age of:

110

This type of curve illustrates the relationship between death rate and age for different species:

Gompertz curve

Loss of appetite and muscle mass in the period before a person dies:

anorexia cachexia

When people are first confronted with new ideas or approaches, they often resist accepting them and used their own schemes to respond:

assimilation

This principle of adult development in aging proposes that changes build on each other in a building fashion:

continuity

A method in which researchers gather data on a frequent basis from the same people over a period of weeks or months:

daily diary

The ____ is the length of time an individual can live without significant disease or disability:

healthy lifespan

People who are readily able to establish long lasting mutually satisfying relationships would be considered high on this quality in Erikson's theory:

intimacy (vs. isolation)

The view that development is best used as continuous throughout life is viewed as the ______ perspective:

life-span perspective

Although always a problem in research on aging, the issue of selective attrition affects what type of study?

longitudinal

In the Bronfenbrenner Ecological Perspective, this includes culture and nationality:

macrosystem

The greatest emphasis on the environment is in what model of development?

mechanistic

In the Bronfenbrenner Ecological Perspective which type of system has the most direct impact on the individual?

microsystem

Researchers who study life transitions in later adulthood find it most advisable to study it before the transition occurred:

perspective study

According to this principle in development, individuals can positively alter their own development by physical and intellectual exercise:

plasticity

Changes over time in people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as they cope with the physical changing of aging in the biopsychosocial perspective:

psychological

The index of age that represents a person's functioning on things such as intelligence, memory, and learning ability:

psychological

To indicate a broadening of our understanding in individual changes over time, the term developmental ____ is being used in the field:

science

Due to the process of ____ aging, an older adult may development skin cancer after years of exposure to the sun:

secondary

The feeling that a person is able to succeed at a specific type of task:

self-efficacy

In these types of studies of aging, researchers collect data from more than one cohort at more than one time period:

sequential

The idea of being on-time or off-time in achieving major life goals is considered a major element of adjustment in this model:

social clock

The changes that individuals experience in income and residence in the biopsychosocial perspective:

sociocultural/social

Which theoretical perspective on ageism give the greatest emphasis of fear of death?

terror mangament theory

The rapid loss of functioning at the very end of life:

tertiary aging

A term in gerontology used to refer to people in the age group of 65-74:

young-old