1.
Gerontology is the study of the aging process from
2.Which of the following statements more accurately depicts health status of older
Americans today?
3. A "compassionate" stereotype of aging does which of the following?
4. The concept of __________ refers to the need to be close to, part of, and familiar
with another person.
5. Compared to older men, older women
6. The biomedicalized version of aging
7. _______ percent of Americans 65 and over live successfully or nearly successfully
in the community.
8. At the end of the 19th century, the average length of marriage when one spouse
died was 28 years; now it is over ________years.
9. Religiosity refers to
10. Phenomenology
11. Bonds between ________ tend to be second only to mother-child ties in intensity
and complexity.
12. Jung's concept of interiority refers to the
13. The elderly are most likely to join a
14. The empty nest syndrome is
15. A "reversed stereotype" of the aged on television shows the aged
16. The absolute human life span is considered to be_______ years.
17. The number and proportion of older people in the U.S. is
18.Recent studies reveal that
19. Cognitive pragmatics refers to
20. Each of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development involve positive or
negative resolution of
21. A "convoy" is
22. Historically, the status of elderly was related primarily to their
23. The most common cause of accidental death among the elderly is
24. Sigmund Freud would most likely explain differences in psychological
development of the elderly by
25. Erikson's concept of "generativity" refers to
26. Working memory refers to
27. People age 65 or older are
28. "Culturally competent" health care providers
29. The __metaphor is helpful to understanding wisdom and issues concerning
preparation for one's death.
30. _______ is the process of evaluating the sensory information carried to the
brain.
31. Ego resiliency is
32. Which metaphor is most likely to focus on motivations as primary factors
shaping development?
33. Our current consciousness is
34. The life expectancy for a child born today is about
35. The most rapidly growing age group among those over 65 is
36. Which of the following activities is most likely to increase reaction time?
37. Senescence refers to
38. ________ theories of aging propose that as people age they develop a greater
capacity to produce antibodies that destroy even normal cells
39. Gerontologists are most likely to use the __________to understand the political,
social, and economic inequities associated with aging.
40. Measures of intelligence have been criticized as being ageist because they
41. Multi-infarct dementia (MID)
42. The major killing disease in the U.S. and other industrialized countries is
43. Study of elderly people coping with cancer found hope and more positive mood
states were associated to
44. According to Levinson, people look at life from
45. Ageism is a
46. A review of previous research on sibling contact reveals
47. Free radicals are
48. Gerontologists define aging in terms of
49. The primary components of a life structure in Levinson's theory are
50. __________ of all Americans become grandparents by age 50.
