Intelligence
True or false: According to Cavanaugh, primary mental abilities decline with age.
True
Marjorie enjoys where she lives because she is able to have her privacy but also to be with new friends at mealtime and get help when necessary. She most likely lives in....
an assisted living facility.
These researchers suggest personality is stable in adulthood.
Costa and McCrae
Decreases of this type of memory most likely is responsible for normal memory declines with age.
Working memory
Tuesday, July 30th
Research on wisdom shows that it is most associated with this.
Life experience.
True or False: Adaptations to physical environments are a major component of helping older adults to successfully age in place.
True.
This theoretical perspective suggests stability in personality in adulthood.
Trait perspective.
Attention capacities are influenced by encoding speed in this way.
Encoding speed slows with AGE, leading to decreased attention capacities.
The second exam closes on this date
August 1st, 9pm
Using the Environmental Press Model, what would you conclude about the following situation?
Susannah, age 68, is living in her own home. She has developed Parkinson's disease and also has complications from Type II diabetes resulting in limited mobility. Her daughter has noticed in recent visits that regular housecleaning has been neglected, and her mother's power has been turned off twice in the last year due to bills being accidentally thrown away. Her daughter would like Susannah to consider moving into some kind of long-term care facility, yet Susannah strongly states that she is fine on her own and does not need any outside help.
Susannah's environment press appears to be becoming greater than her competence
Erikson's theory gives this name to the shift from a self-oriented focus towards giving to the rising generations in middle to later adulthood.
generativity vs. stagnation
Effortful processing does this with age.
Decline.
Pam's husband's name is this.
Kevin
Crystallized intelligence (pragmatics)
The Cavanaugh text suggests that assisted living facilities should have three common essentials.
1. the physical environment should be as much like a single-family house as possible.
2. the philosophy of care should emphasize personal control, choice, dignity, and autonomy.
3. Facilities should meet residents' routine services and special needs
Most men DO NOT experience this mid-life phenomenon.
Mid-life crisis.
Automatic processing does not do this greatly with primary aging.
Decline
This class contributes to this BYU minor.
Gerontology
Knowledge acquired through experience, or cultural knowledge.
crystallized intelligence / pragamatics.
Paying for long-term care can be complex. This typically carries the heaviest burden in paying for long-term care.
Out of pocket payments.
The Big Five Personality Traits.
Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Memory is preserved by these things.
Exercise, multilingualism, using semantic memory to support episodic memory
The gerontology conference is named after this man.
Russell B. Clark