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17 Cards in this Set
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The poorest definition of age from a developmental perspective is?
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Chronological Age
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Nancy is a 65 year old, drives a sports car & has a teenage daughter. She would be considered to have a young:
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Psychological Age
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The term 'social gerontology' was first used by:
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Clark Tibbits
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__________ comprise the fastest growing segment of the US population:
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People aged 85+
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Geriatrics is the field of study that focuses on _____.
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clinical aspects of aging
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Demands that the social and physical environment place on the individual are known as _____.
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environmental press
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The theoretical upper limit of an individual's ability to function in health, cognition and behavior is known as _____.
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individual competence
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As societies become more advanced with improvements in health care and sanitation, the survival curve becomes _____.
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more rectangular
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A person with multiple physical disabilities and chronic illnesses has a reduced _______ which may limit their coping ability.
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physical competence
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A _______ is a group of people who were born at approximately the same time and therefore share many common experiences.
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cohort
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Changes that occur in cognitive functioning and personality are a reflection of:
a. Psychological aging b. Chronological aging c. Biological aging d. Social Aging |
a. psychological aging
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Over the past twenty years, sex differences in life expectancy have:
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declined but women still live longer
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The major limitation of cross-sectional studies of aging occurs when:
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differences among younger and older respondents are erroneously attributed to growing old.
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It is a fallacy to assume that the changing elderly dependency ratios will result in increased burdens on younger people because:
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those under age 16 are the largest "dependent" group
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Among the oldest-old, the majority live in:
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nursing homes
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Who are the old-old?
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75-84
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Seventy percent of the oldest-old are
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women
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