What’s happening to my body? (Middle Adult-Physical)
So, what if, I bought another snowmobile? (Middle Adult-Social)
…will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 64? (Late Adult-Physical
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. (Late Adult – Social)
Death and taxes (Death, Dying & Bereavement)
100
Q: What describes the adult period in which reproductive capacity is lost or declines?
A) Menopause
B) Erectile Dysfunction
C) Climacteric
D) Impotence
What is A: C) Climacteric
100
Q: What is the stress a person feels if they lack the resources to fulfil a role?
A) Role Conflict
B) Stress
C) Role Strain
D) Anxiety
What is A: C) Role Strain
100
Q: True or False, Caucasians tend to have a longer life span than African Americans
What is A: True
100
Q: Thinking about the past and regretting some of the opportunities you did not take is an example of what?
A) Reminiscence
B) Memory
C) Life Review
D) Regret
What is A: C) Life Review
100
Q: Where do the most amount of deaths occur in the United States?
A) Hospice
B) Long-term care facility
C) Hospital
Decedents home
What is A: C) Hospital
200
Q: ______ responds more slowly to cognitive tasks.
What is A: Brain
200
Q: What stage of Eric Erickson’s stages are individuals in the middle adulthood going through?
A) Generativity vs. Stagnation
B) Trust vs. Mistrust
C) Initiative vs. Guilt
D) Industry vs. Inferiority
What is A: A) Generativity vs. Stagnation
200
Q: When blood flow to eyes decreases, it causes an increase to individuals ______ _______?
What is A: Blind Spot
200
Q: True or False, Women are more likely to remarry or date when in the late adult stage.
What is A: False
200
Q: Young adults tend to have a sense of _____ _____ which is a belief that bad things only happen to others.
What is A: Unique Invulnerability
300
Q: About what percent of deaths are due to cardiovascular disease?
A) 59%
B) 27%
C) 50%
D) 95%
What is A: B) 27%
300
Q: What style of grand parenting involves the grandparents providing nearly full-time care?
What is A: Involved Relationships
300
Q: An individual who is 79 years old belongs to what subgroup?
A) Old old
B) Young old
C) Oldest Old
D) Young
What is A: A) Old old
300
Q: All of the following factors influence an elder’s decision to live with an adult child EXCEPT:
A) Income
B) Health
C) Ethnicity
D) Size of house
What is A: D) Size of house
300
Q: What does DNR stand for?
A) Do Not Resuscitate Order
B) Do Not Rescue
C) Do Not Recover
D) Do Not Rehabilitate
What is A: A) Do Not Resuscitate Order
400
Q: Explain the differences between episodic memories and semantic memories.
What is A: Episodic memories are when an individual remembers personal events from their lifetime. While semantic memories are the general knowledge an individual has gained throughout their lifetime.
400
Q: Is having a mid-life crisis a real thing individuals experience?
What is A: There is some debate to this question but theorists believe that having a mid-life crisis is indeed a real experience for many middle-aged adults. Up to 25% of individuals experience a mid-life crisis. They are facing a series of difficult tasks such as being content with the ending of their lives and what they have accomplished. Many adults become unhappy with their accomplishments thus far in their lives and aren’t sure if they have reached their true potential. They also feel like this is the perfect time in their lives to make a huge change in their lives.
400
Q: Why do individuals who have higher levels of education have less atrophy of the cerebral cortex?
What is A: They have less atrophy of the cerebral cortex because they have careers that allow them to use their brains more. They have more intellectual conversations that challenge their minds. They also strategize and use their brains with a higher rate of functioning.
400
Q: What are the three components associated with successful aging?
What is A: Good physical health, retention of cognitive abilities, and continuing engagement in social and productive activities.
400
Q: What are the differences between clinical death and brain death?
What is A: Clinical death is when an individual’s heart stops beating or they stop breathing. The individual may also be resuscitated from a clinical death. A brain death is when there are no reflexes or response to external stimuli. The individual is also able to breath and survive for a while longer
500
Q: List and explain Goleman’s stages of problem solving.
What is A: The first stage is preparations and includes gathering information revolving around the situation at hand. The second stage is incubation which is thinking over the situation one is presented with. The third stage is the illumination stage which is the moment the solution to the problem is made clear. The final stage is the translation stage which is when the found solution is applied to the problem the individual was presented with in the first place.
500
Q: List the “Big Five” OCEAN acronym and briefly explain each one.
What is A: The first is Openness which involves the willingness to try new things. The next is Conscientiousness which is the need for order in one’s environment. Extraversion comes next and involves how social someone is. The next is agreeableness which is how easily someone gets along with others. The last one is Neuroticism which includes information such as emotional negativity and irritability. Agreeableness and Conscientiousness increase through the age of seventy while openness, extraversion, and neuroticism decline with age.
500
Q: Describe how the brain changes during the stage of late adulthood?
What is A: The first way the brain changes in the stage of late adulthood is a loss of dendritic density of neurons takes place. This ultimately slows the reaction time for most tasks an individual completes.
500
Q: What are common reasons individuals may choose to retire?
What is A: Health, family functioning, anticipated pension income, general economic conditions, and overall job satisfaction.
500
Q: List the stages of dying as proposed by Kubler-Ross and describe each.
What isA: The first stage of dying is the denial stage which involves the initial reaction of not accepting a diagnosis. The second stage is anger which involves accepting a diagnosis but becoming upset. The third stage is bargaining is when an individual believes one act will exchange for another. The fourth stage is depression and increases as the disease prevails and continues. The final stage is acceptance which is when an individual finally accepts their fate and that they cannot change their outcome.