WorksheetsChapter 5 Test - Psych - Adulthood and Old Age
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
How much does reaction time decrease as you age?
about 40%
about 20%
about 50%
about 10%
The misbelief that elderly people cannot function effectively in society is based on the _______ model of aging.
decremental
What is the most common form of senile dementia?
The study of dying and death is called
the ability to use accumulated knowledge in appropriate situations is called __________ intelligence
crystallized intelligence
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified ______ stages of psychological adjustments to death.
The ability to solve abstract relational problems and generate new hypotheses is called _________ intelligence.
Discrimination against the elderly is known as?
The biological event in women's lives where the production of sex hormones drops.
humanities
a possible reaction to the departure from home of a women's last child
'empty nest syndrome'
the goal of hospice care is to
improve the quality of end of life
memory loss, forgetfulness, disorientation, altered personality, impaired attention are all signs of
senile dementia
All of the following are steps in Levinson's Theory of Male Development EXCEPT?
age-thirty crisis
empty nest syndrome
settling down
midlife transition
Three of the four most common chronic diseases of old age include all of the following EXCEPT.
influenza
hypertension
What support organization exists to speak out and lobby on social issues for those in the population 65 and older?
What is the average lifespan for people in the United States as of 2017?
75 years
What form of hospice is more common now than it was before?
What percentage of marriages will end in divorce?
40%
20%
70%
50%
What percentage of Americans will marry at some point?
