Once a person has reached adulthood, the vital capacity of his or her lungs drops about 4 percent ____ _____.
What is every decade
100
Moderate drinking can reduce the rate of this disease.
What is coronary heart disease?
100
Historically, psychologists considered intelligence to be a single ability, what THIS theorist referred to as g, or general intelligence.
Who is Charles Spearman?
100
THIS is defined as the ability to strategically use one's intellectual strengths to compensate for declining capacities associated with age.
What is selective optimization with compensation?
100
This is the extra capacity built into each organ, such as the heart and lungs, which allows a person to cope with extraordinary demands and/or to withstand organ strain.
What is organ reserve?
200
_________ becomes less likely for both genders as they age.
What is reproduction?
200
This country has experienced a doubling of its diabetes rates in the past four decades.
What is the United States?
200
THIS refers to the rise in average IQ over the years.
What is the Flynn effect?
200
THIS is a person's ability to be more accomplished at a particular skill, or have more knowledge than the average person about a particular subject.
What is expertise?
200
When couples in the ________ try to conceive, about 1/2 are infertile, and the other half risk various complications.
What is the 40s?
300
This is the term for "male menopause".
What is andropause?
300
Regular exercise can help adults in many ways, including reducing risk of depression and strengthening the heart. It is unable to negate the effect of the use of THIS product.
What is tobacco?
300
The basic intelligence that makes learning quick and thorough is referred to as _______ intelligence.
What is fluid?
300
These people tend to be intuitive, automatic, strategic, and flexible in their thinking.
Who are experts?
300
In regards to the aging brain, it is important to remember that past education, current intellectual activity, overall health, and THIS help to promote brain function.
What is exercise?
400
In an aging brain, reaction time
What is increases (lengthens)?
400
This is the style of coping in which people try to attack the stressor in some way.
What is problem-focused coping?
400
Longitudinal studies find that intelligence _______ with age, at least until late adulthood.
What is increases/improves?
400
Older employees are generally able to devise cognitive strategies to __________ for the decline of other job-related skills.
What is compensate?
400
Well-educated and financially secure adults tend to live ____.
What is longer?
500
George is 65 years old and is experiencing some symptoms of age-related hearing loss. If he is typical for his age, THIS sound would be the LEAST audible for him.
What is the voice of a small child or a high-pitched woman.
500
Because a person's metabolism slows by about 1/3 from the ages of 20 through 60, adults actually need to do these two things, in order to maintain weight.
What is eat less and move more?
500
________ ___________ refers to the accumulation of facts, information, and knowledge that comes with education and experience.
What is crystallized intelligence?
500
In developing their abilities, experts point to the importance of _________, usually 10 years, or more, and several hours per day before full potential is achieved.
What is practice?
500
THIS study used cross-sequential research and found that people improve in most mental abilities during adulthood, and decline occurs later in life.