Themes and Issues in Adult Development
This is the name for the multidisciplinary study of aging.
What is gerontology?
This theory takes the view that older adults are most satisfied if they remain in their social roles and remain active into old age.
What is activity theory?
This type of variable is the outcome that researchers measure.
What is the dependent variable?
This disease of the eye results in the lens getting cloudy or opaque.
What is cataracts?
The Big 5 Theory of Personality contains 5 factors. One of these factors is.
What is Neuroticism?
What is Agreeableness?
What is Openness?
What is Conscientiousness?
What is Extraversion?
The idea that people who live into old age are the ones who managed to outlive many threats that could have caused their deaths is called this.
What is the survivor principle?
The first stage of Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Theory concerns this conflict?
What is trust vs. mistrust.
Of special interest to aging researchers is separating the effects of age from the social, historical, and cultural influences that affect people born during a particular period, know as this.
What are cohort effects?
This type of aging results from exposure to sunlight.
What is photoaging?
The two brain structures most important to forming memories are these.
What is the hippocampus and (medial) temporal lobe?
This is the term for the type of aging that leads to disability or impairment due to disease rather than normal aging?
What is secondary aging?
These structures that cap our chromosomes and protect our DNA shorten after each cellular replication.
What are telomeres?
What is cross-sectional research or cross-sectional design?
Between 1976 and 2016, the Body Mass Index (BMI) of Americans increased from 25 to this.
What is 29?
This theory states that memories are not stored in any specific place in the brain.
What is memory trace theory?
Biological age, psychological age, and social age are all components of this.
What is functional age?
This random error theory proposes that changes to collagen drive aging.
What is the cross-linking theory?
Research that follows a group a people over a long period of time to see how they change as they age would be considered this?
What is longitudinal research or longitudinal design?
This is the term for cardiovascular efficiency as indexed by measuring the amount of oxygen that can be delivered through the blood.
What is aerobic capacity?
This is the name for the idea that the brain can make changes across the life span.
What is plasticity (or neuroplasticity)?
The idea that people are maintaining their health until closer to their deaths is called this.
What is compression of morbidity?
What is health expectancy? is acceptable
Sometimes when cells divide, there is an error in DNA replication where one nucleotide is substituted for another. This is called.
What is a single-nucleotide polymorphism?
This type of research combines the results of many previously published studies into a new, overall finding.
What is meta-analysis?
The idea that aging causes dangerous increases in cortisol levels resulting in loss of neurons in the hippocampus is called this.
What is the glucocorticoid cascade hypothesis?
Sensation involves collecting information in the sensory organs and sending them to the brain where the brain makes sense of the information using this.
What is perception?
What is probability? is also acceptable.