2.9 QUIZ: OLD AGE

To be great author you may want to have which of the following types of intelligence?

• Fluid
• Crystallized
• Diamond
• Short-term

A condition that destroys a person’s ability to think, remember, relate to others, and care for herself or himself. There is NO cure

• Rubik's disease
• Identity crisis
• Alzheimer's disease
• ageism

If an elderly person is denied a job because of their age his is called _______.

• Dementia
• Alzheimer's
• Ageism
• Fronto

Physical strength and sense decline about ___ percent a year.

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

The idea that progressive physical and mental decline are inevitable with age....

• Ageism
• Decremental model of aging
• Age misconceptions

What is empty nest syndrome?

• When the parents leave the house and start living in another city
• When mothers find a new place to live and raise a family
• When the final child leaves the home and the parents are left alone
• When fathers travel for work and leave their wives at home

What is Ageism?

• When women are discriminated based on their gender
• When old people are discriminated based on their age
• When minorities are discriminated based on their race
• When people don’t know their own age

What type of intelligence increases with age and is most often associated with the accumulation or knowledge? This is why older people often write books.

• Fluid
• Solid
• Crystallized
• Diamond

What type of intelligence is used to solve abstract relational problems and declines with age? It is associated with younger people and based on our spine.

• Fluid
• Solid
• Crystallized
• Diamond

The leading causes of death in adults is...

• Heart disease
• Cancer
• Cirrhosis of the liver
• all of the above