Week 1
Managing finances, driving, and cleaning the house are examples of what?
iADLS (instrumental activities of daily living)
Type of intelligence that continues to increase in older adulthood
Crystallized Intelligence
LGBTQ+ relationships have _____ (higher, lower, similar) satisfaction as cis-het relationships
Similar
Most common form of elder abuse
Psychological abuse
Two theories about age-related slowing
Neural Networks Model (loss of neurons) and Information Loss Model (info is lost at each step of processing).
Living through the Great Depression is an example of what type of effect?
Cohort effect
Multiple choice questions are to recognition as essay questions are to ____
Recall
The Geriatric Depression Scale does not include ____
Physical symptoms
Age you receive Social Security
65
Alzheimer's Disease effects ___ and ___
Learning & Memory
Hardening of the lens that creates difficulties seeing nearby items
Presbyopia
Remembering the definition of an apple is an example of this kind of memory (HINT: not tied to a specific time or event)
Semantic Memory
3 components of successful aging according to Rowe & Kahn
Avoiding disease and disability, engagement with life, and high cognitive and physical function
Allowing a person to die by withholding
treatment
Passive Euthanasia
Intelligence is operationalized by performance on
standardized tests in this approach to intelligence
Psychometric Approach to Intelligence
Research designs that can have repeated measures (2 answers)
Longitudinal and Sequential
Multidimensionality, multidirectionality, plasticity, and interindividual variability are the four concepts that make up which model?
Baltes's Life Span Perspective
An evoked fear of being judged in accordance with a
negative stereotype about a group to which you belong
Stereotype Threat
The way we express grief
Mourning
The Seattle Longitudinal study found that primary mental abilities ___ (decline or grow) after 60
Decline
False
The processing resources hypothesis is a potential explanation for the decline of _____ attention
Selective
Removing less meaningful or casual acquaintances
Social Pruning
Describe the elder abuse reporting process
Age-related hearing loss
Presbycusis