Lifespan Development Exam 4

As Karen has gotten older, she has noticed a decrease in her ability to see in the dark. She has trouble reading a menu in a dark restaurant and finds car headlight glare to be harsher. This is known as:

• Dry eye syndrome

• Scotopic sensitivity

• Floaters

• Presbyopia

According to current research, life expectancy in the United States has ___ since 2015.

• Increased a little

• Stayed the same

• Decreased

• Increased a lot

It is recommended that adults get an average of 7 hours of sleep per night. Getting less than 7 hours can lead to all of these EXCEPT:

• Improve immune system

• Increased risk of cancer

• Increase stress cortisol levels

• Living a shorter life

Jim has been noticing that he is struggling more with learning new activities and problem-solving. This is known as what type of intelligence?

• Crystallized intelligence

• Fluid intelligence

• Educational intelligence

• Interpersonal intelligence

By middle adulthood, many people consider themselves experts in certain fields. Experts are characterized as all these EXCEPT:

• Automatic

• Intuitive

• Strategic

• Non-flexible

The ___ generation is named this due to middle-aged adults taking care of both their children and their parents.

• Sandwich

• Double-sided

• Stacked

• Important

The population of people age 65 and older is

• increasing.

• decreasing.

• showing no change.

• none of these.

Susan has been making specific, concrete plans for when she retires. For example, she knows that after she retires, she wants to spend time traveling and spend more time with her grandchildren. Which stage of retirement is Susan in?

• Remote pre-retirement

• Immediate pre-retirement

• Disenchantment phase

• Reorientation phase

Which of these is a consequence of the negative attitudes people have about those in late adulthood?

• Agreeing with negative stereotypes about late adulthood can create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

• Believing the stereotypes about late adulthood makes doctors more likely to provide life-sustaining treatment

• Negative attitudes toward aging do not result in consequences for those in late adulthood.

• Both A and B.

Which of the following is most clearly an example of selective optimization with compensation?

• Jennifer is very insightful due to the combination of her age and life experiences.

• The brain in late adulthood building alternative connections when brain cells die

• Alice exercises daily and eats healthily because she wants to have good health for as long as she can past age 65

• Joe has less energy than he used to have, so he creates a new routine for himself that allows for regular breaks while still accomplishing what he needs to do.