Cognitive Functions
Elderspeak is an obvious way to determine whether an older adult is being subjected to which process?
What is infantilization?
A 22-year-old college graduate enters a Master’s program in social work after having considered several possible majors, ranging from biology to classics. This graduate would be considered to fit into which identity status?
What is achieved?
What is the percent of women 85 and older who are widowed?
What is 70%?
An occupation that provides personal meaning can be called a...?
What is a calling?
Which of the following pieces of advice to help people preserve their cognitive functioning?
What is drink plenty of water?
The recall of where or how an individual acquires information.
What is source memory?
Which factor in the Five Factor Model reflects the extent to which a person is cooperative and helpful?
What is agreeableness?
Older adults in the _____________ relationship status have decided not to share the same household.
What is Living Apart Together?
Low pay, work environment, and long hours reflect which factors in vocational satisfaction?
What is extrinsic motivation?
Which of the following is characteristic of a good problem-solver?
What is view problems like learning opportunities?
The experimental task that involves reading a color word such as “red” in letters colored blue is known as the ____________ test.
What is Stroop?
According to Levinson, what is the period in between early and middle adulthood is known as?
What is midlife transition?
The tendency of people who have been divorced to consider divorce again when their marriage is not working out well is referred to as...
What is divorce proneness?
The concept of “life space-life stages” in Super’s theory is close to the ______________ model.
What is the ecological model by Brofenbrenner?
True or false? People become nicer as they get older.
What is true?
The trolley problem, in which you must decide whether to take action to save the five or do nothing to save the one, illustrates which feature of adult cognition?
What is dialectical thinking?
In attachment style terms, older adults may feel comforted by their pets, who provide them with a..
What is safe haven?
In the _____ theory of interpersonal relationship satisfaction, you would feel happiest in relationships when you feel that the rewards of the relationship equal or exceed its costs.
What is social exchange theory?
A former software engineer retires from a job at a high-tech firm and soon after, takes a position as a substitute high school math teacher. The engineer is showing which late-life work pattern?
What is bridge employment?
People whose social relationships are generally positive have a _____% lower mortality risk compared to those who do not.
What is 50%?
The reminiscence bump in long-term memory is most likely to involve ages...
What is 10-30?
Which of the five pathways identified in the RALS comes closest to the identity achieved status?
What is Authentic Road?
The phenomenon in families when parents behave according to gender roles is known as?
What is doing gender?
The RIASEC types can be fit into two underlying dimensions of people/things vs. ______?
What is data/idea?
True or false? Older workers are less flexible than younger workers.
What is false?