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This model of aging sees humans as complex biological systems where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Organismic Model
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Rapid losses of functioning shortly before death
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Tertiary Aging
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Menarche would be categorized as which type of normative influence?
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Normative age-graded influence
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Winning the lottery is what type of life influence?
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nonnormative
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Name the four forces of development?
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Bilogical forces, Sociocultural forces, Psychological forces and life-cycle forces
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A 66-year-old who is prejudged to be "senile" or inept simply because of his chronological age would be considered a victim of what?
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Ageism
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This type of dementia is characterized by a small series of CVA's.
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Multi-infarct dementia
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Referes to Alzheimer's patients symptoms getting worse during the evening hours.
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Sundowning
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L-dopa is typically very effective in treating what organiz disorder?
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Parkinson's Disease
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Alcoholic Dementia is characterized by what syndrome?
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Wernicke-Korsakoff's Syndrome (caused by deficiency of thiamine)
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This is the MOST COMMON form of progressive, fatal dementia.
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Alzheimer's Disease
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This type of memory is defined as "remembering to remember"
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Prospective memory
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What is algorithmic retrieval?
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Any retrieval process that produces error-free performance.
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The effortless and unconscious recollection of information.
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Implicit memory
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This is the second leading cause of death in the U.S.
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Cancer (lung cancer is most common)
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This is the most frequent age-related change in sleeping patterns
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an increase in the frequency of awakenings as morning approaches.
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Which has the lowest rate of mortality: abstainers, those who drink alcohol once or twice a day or heavy drinkers?
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light drinkers (one or two a day) have been shown to live the longest
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Consuming enough alcohol to cause physical, psychological or social harm refers to what?
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Alcohol abuse
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This would improve health in the U.S. more than any other step.
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If everyone who smoked, stopped smoking today.
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The three types of stress appraisal are?
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Primary appraisal, secondary appraisal and reappraisal
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What is maximum longevity?
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The oldest age to which any individual of a species lives.
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What factors influence how long a person lives?
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genetic, environmental, ethnic and gender (females live longer)
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Why do women typically live longer than men?
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Men are more susceptible (at every age) to the top 15 causes of death AND they are more susceptible to infectious diseases
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The idea that some cells are genetically programmed to die at particular points in the life span?
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Programmed cell death
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This is the biological limit to the number of times a cell is able to reproduce itself?
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Hayflick limit (50 cell divisions)
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What is climacteric?
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when a woman's reproductive capacity ends and ovulation stops
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The condition in which the fluid in the eye does not drain properly, causing high pressure in the eyeball is called what?
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Glaucoma
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The system allows us to keep our balance (located in inner ear)
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Vestibular system
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The type of arthritis which is most destructive and causes the most swelling of joints? Also most common.
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Rheumatoid arthritis
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Women are especially prone to this bone disease as they age.
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osteoporosis
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Having knowledge of how our bodies are positioned is called what?
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kinesthesis
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What is the primary cause of complaints by older people that food tastes bland or plain?
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most likely it is their changes in ability to smell which are strongly related to taste
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Which type of tones become more difficult for older persons to hear?
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high-pitched tones
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This is the most comman respiratory disorder in older adults
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COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), of which Emphysema is the most serious type
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How do African Americans compare to other ethnicities with respect to incidence of cardiovascular disease?
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Their rate of death from CVD is double that of European Americans.
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One's ability to remember historical facts, knowledge of literature etc. refers to what type of intelligence?
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Crystallized intelligence
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Which type of intelligence do older adults have problems with?
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Fluid intelligence (declines as people grow older)
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According to Piaget this refers to the process of adjusting one's thinking to the environment.
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Adaptation
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Name the four phases of Piaget's development structure:
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Sensorimotor period, Preoperational period, concrete operational period, formal operation period
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Which of Piaget's stages involves logical reasoning in children?
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Concrete Operational period
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The idea that truth varies from situation to situation, subjectivity trumphs objectivity
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Postformal thought
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What are the two functions of Denney's Model of problem solving?
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unexercised ability and optimally exercised ability
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Older adults currently comprise what number the pop? What will it be in 2030?
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Current: 13 %
by 2030: 21 % |
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Erikson's psy. crisis one reaches in old age
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integrity versus despair
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What is the current trend in the role of grandparents in the U.S.?
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Their roles are dimininshing and they are spending less time with grandkids because families are more geographically spread out.
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The term that refers to a feeling of responsibility to take care of one's parents?
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Filial obligation
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What is the sandwhich generation?
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The middle-agers who are "sandwhiched" between their parents and children. A situation that becomes a source of
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