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Adulthood and Old Age

Adulthood and Old Age. Chapter Review. Which of the following does NOT influence patterns of health and disease in old age?. A. Health at younger age B. Eating habits C. Exercise D. Physical strength. Answer:. D Physical Strength. The goal of hospice care is to.

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Adulthood and Old Age

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  1. Adulthood and Old Age Chapter Review

  2. Which of the following does NOT influence patterns of health and disease in old age? • A. Health at younger age • B. Eating habits • C. Exercise • D. Physical strength

  3. Answer: • D Physical Strength

  4. The goal of hospice care is to • A. Improve the quality of life • B. Prolong life. • C. Avoid the use of drugs • D. Cure the patient’s illness

  5. Answer: • A Improve the quality of life.

  6. Brianna is at her physical peak. She is most likely ___years old. • A. 12-18 • B. 18-30 • C. 30-38 • D. 38-50

  7. Answer: • B 18-30

  8. List the stages of adjusting to dying and death as defined by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

  9. Answer: • Denial • Anger • Bargaining • Depression • acceptance

  10. Alberto believes that his function in life is to help younger generations by passing on his acquired business wisdom. Erik Erikson would say Alberto is exhibiting • A. Despair • B. Stagnation • C. Generativity • D. Ego integrity

  11. Answer: • C generativity

  12. A possible reaction to the departure from home of a woman’s last child.

  13. Answer: Empty Nest Syndrome

  14. Study of dying and death.

  15. Answer: Thanatology

  16. Memory loss, forgetfulness, disorientation, altered personality, impaired attention.

  17. Answer: Senile Dementia

  18. Ability to use accumulated knowledge in appropriate situations.

  19. Answer: Crystallized Intelligence

  20. Ability to generate new hypotheses.

  21. Answer: Fluid Intelligence

  22. The idea that physical and mental decline is inevitable with age.

  23. Answer: Decremental model of aging.

  24. Elderly people have difficulty retrieving information from memory due to • A. Generativity • B. A decline in the nervous system • C. A loss of fluid intelligence • D. A loss of crystallized intelligence

  25. Answer: B A decline in the nervous system.

  26. Predujice or discrimination against the olderly is called this.

  27. Answer: Ageism

  28. Daniel Levinson described the period in their life when men look over the life choices they have made as this.

  29. Answer: The Age Thirty Crisis.

  30. During this stage, women stop ovulating and menstruating and their production of sex hormonoes drops sharply.

  31. Answer: Menopause

  32. Sissy is struggling through the second stage of dying. This can best described as a stage of • A. Anger • B. Denial • C. Acceptance • D. bargaining

  33. Answer: A Anger

  34. Daniel Levinson’s theory focused on • A. Adolescent males • B. Adult males • C. Elderly females • D. Middle-aged females

  35. Wrinkles first appear in the skin in

  36. Answer: Middle Age

  37. Williams and Johnson have found that no physiological reason exists for halting this activity.

  38. Answer: Sexual Activity.

  39. People may become shorter and develop loose skin in this stage.

  40. Answer: Old Age.

  41. Which of the following is NOT one of the three most common causes of death in later adulthood? • Cancer • Cirrhosis • Alzheimer’s disease • Heart disease

  42. C; Alzheimers

  43. Depression is most common among which group? • Adolescent boys • Adolescent girls • Middle-aged men • Middle-aged women

  44. D; middle-aged women

  45. What did Erik Erikson call a discontinuation of development and desire to recapture the past?

  46. Stagnation!

  47. A stage for women in which major psychological and biological changes occur.

  48. Climateric

  49. Elderly people who experience a loss of control often develop • A fear of dying • A negative self-concept • Rigidity • Alzheimer’s disease

  50. B; a negative self-concept

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