Exam 4

Front 1

What mitigates the effects of stress and fosters feelings of well-being among midlife adults?

Back 1

Sense of control

Front 2

According to Erikson, which circumstance embodies the concept of stagnation?

Back 2

Rachel decides not to get pregnant out of fear of gaining weight.

Front 3

According to a longitudinal study performed by Schaie et al., considering all things equal, which person is likely to score the highest in inductive reasoning: Caitlyn 25 years old; Melissa 39 years old; Kathy 53 years old; and Eleanor 67 years old?

Back 3

Kathy

Front 4

Which personality trait contrasts talkativeness, assertiveness, and activity with silence, passivity, and reserve?

Back 4

extraversion

Front 5

Forty-seven-year old Edgar decides he wants to learn German for his upcoming trip to Germany. He spends each morning reviewing a vocabulary list of commonly used German words. What type of intelligence is Edgar using?

Back 5

crystallized intelligence

Front 6

A psychological shift into middle adulthood that is theorized to occur between the ages of 40 and 45 as people begin to believe they have more to look back upon than forward to is referred to as a midlife ____.

Back 6

transition

Front 7

According to the text, which middle-aged woman is the most likely to return to school?

Back 7

Tiffany works full-time as an administrative assistant and has two young children.

Front 8

A sign of estrogen deficiency in middle adulthood women is ____.

Back 8

heart palpitations

Front 9

According to Erikson, what is meant by the term generativity?

Back 9

Bearing and rearing children

Front 10

When a deadline approaches at work, coworkers Tina and Ariel deal with the stress in very different ways. Tina tends to lose her temper more often and feels very nervous. On the other hand, Ariel makes sure to take plenty of deep breaths and drinks herbal tea to calm herself down. These coworkers differ in which personality trait?

Back 10

neuroticism

Front 11

Siblings Amanda and Dean could not be any different. Amanda has always had a steady job, pays her bills on time, and has no debt. Dean on the other hand is often unemployed, has bill collectors calling his house, and spends money he doesn’t have. Amanda and Dean differ in which personality trait?

Back 11

conscientiousness

Front 12

What is a critique of Havighurst’s Developmental Tasks of Middle Adulthood?

Back 12

His vision is one-dimensional

Front 13

With the right genes and environment, and with the good fortune to avoid serious injuries or illnesses, people have a maximum life span of about how many years?

Back 13

115

Front 14

Gretel’s mother Sylvia lives alone. Now that Sylvia is elderly, Gretel is worried that her mother may suffer serious injury from an accident. According to the text, what can Gretel do to help protect Sylvia?

Back 14

Equip Sylvia’s home with nonskid floors.

Front 15

What is the evidence that visual-recognition memories can last half a century for those in late adulthood?

Back 15

Fifty years after graduating high-school, subjects recognized former classmates 75% of the time

Front 16

Dr. Layton investigates the role of free radicals in aging. She hopes to find effective chemicals that will combat free radicals and slow the progression of age-related processes. For what class of chemicals is Dr. Layton searching?

Back 16

antioxidants

Front 17

What is a critique of disengagement theory?

Back 17

Well-being generally increases when older adults pursue goals.

Front 18

What is the evidence to support the socioemotional selectivity theory?

Back 18

Older subjects asked to read a book showed greater recall for emotional material than younger subjects.

Front 19

What is true of dementia?

Back 19

Infection is one cause of dementia.

Front 20

Older adults recall events from which decades of life in greatest detail?

Back 20

second and third

Front 21

Seventy-three-year old Carlos developed an extreme fear of the dark. His wife is becoming increasingly frustrated because Carlos insists on sleeping with the lights on. What is Carlos experiencing?

Back 21

phobic disorder

Front 22

Devin asks her grandfather Al to count up by 5s. Al quickly starts counting up 5, 10, 15, 20, 25,...etc. What kind of memory is Al demonstrating?

Back 22

implicit

Front 23

The word euthanasia literally means ____.

Back 23

“good death”

Front 24

What do medical authorities generally use as the basis for determining that a person has died?

Back 24

brain death

Front 25

What were Maciejewski and colleagues assessment of Jacobs’ stages of grief?

Back 25

Yearning, anger, and depression rose suddenly in the predicted order.

Front 26

Following cardiac arrest, Bob’s 86-year-old wife Cynthia remains comatose and shows no signs of brain activity. Bob feels strongly that Cynthia would not want to remain in a “lifeless” body, so he discusses with her doctors the possibility of removing her from life support. What type of euthanasia is Bob contemplating?

Back 26

passive euthanasia

Front 27

While at the hospital attending to his mother, Peter meets a woman named Lea, whose father was diagnosed with whole brain death following cardiac arrest. She explains to Peter that her father requires a respirator ____.

Back 27

because he suffered irreversible damage to his brain stem

Front 28

Funerals are usually a families’ ____ largest expense.

Back 28

fourth

Front 29

Three-year-old Sasha’s grandmother passed away recently. Given her age, which statement is Sasha likely to make regarding her grandmother’s death?

Back 29

“When will Nana be back from vacation?”