Psychology of Aging Question Bank
Course Introduction
Psychology of Aging explores the psychological processes and changes that occur as individuals grow older. This course examines cognitive, emotional, and social development in older adulthood, addressing topics such as memory, intelligence, personality, mental health, and adaptation to retirement and loss. Students will analyze theories of aging, research findings, and the impact of cultural, biological, and environmental factors on aging. The course also considers practical implications for promoting successful aging and understanding the challenges and opportunities faced by elderly populations.
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Aging the Individual and Society 9th Edition by Susan M. Hillier
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Chapter 1: Aging in America
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Q1) The longest documented human life span on record is 130.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Compared to white males,black males can expect to live
A) more than 6 years less.
B) 3 years less.
C) about the same number of years.
D) 2 years longer.
Answer: A
Q3) The most rapidly growing age group among those over 65 is
A) 65 to 70.
B) 70 to 75.
C) 75 to 80.
D) 85 and older .
Answer: D
Q4) Heart disease is the leading cause of death for older adults.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Stereotypes and Images
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Q1) According to Kaufman,older people see themselves as old.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q2) Chronological age is a "full variable".
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) Media Watch Task Force is associated with which highly known aging activist group?
A) AARP.
B) Medicare.
C) Gray Panthers.
D) Senior Source. Answer: C
Q4) According to the text,many television commercials focus on entertainment for older adults.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Social and Psychological Theories in Later Life Development
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Q1) The empty nest syndrome is
A) mostly likely to occur when young children start to school.
B) depression felt when an adult child returns home after divorce or losing a job.
C) the new sense of life satisfaction when adult children move away from home.
D) more likely to be experienced by women whose energies focused on childrearing.
Answer: D
Q2) According to Erikson,intimacy is the main issue of growth and development in A) childhood.
B) early adulthood.
C) middle adulthood.
D) old age.
Answer: B
Q3) An intergroup perspective in the developmental study of aging focuses on A) a shared assumption of a specific group.
B) interactions among people of different generations.
C) economic and political conflict among competing age categories.
D) early family influences on attitudes as one ages.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Physical Health and Well Being
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Q1) Among older adults falls are the most common cause of accidental death.Other major causes include
A) suffocation from objects ingested and burns.
B) overdose on prescribed medicine.
C) car accidents.
D) medical and surgical complications.
Q2) What are the three leading causes of death among older adults in the United States? What steps can we take to prevent each of these causes of mortality?
Q3) Obesity increases problems of
A) heart disease.
B) diabetes.
C) hypertension.
D) All of these choices
Q4) Because of reduced kidney function,elders should eat less _______ to avoid kidney strain.
A) whole grain
B) protein
C) vegetable fiber
D) saturated fat
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Chapter 5: Mental Health
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Q1) Longitudinal studies of IQ have found that __________remain stable with time.
A) inference from past experiences
B) verbal skills
C) crystallized intelligence
D) knowledge
Q2) All of the following characterize dementia EXCEPT
A) being disoriented.
B) having poor judgement.
C) having problems with language.
D) it is a normal part of the aging process.
Q3) Which of the following is LEAST likely to hinder the learning of older adults?
A) self-pacing
B) use of abstract concepts
C) distraction
D) formal testing situations
Q4) How does memory and learning change with age? What can help maintain memory in old age?
Q5) How do sensory memory,attention,perception,and psychomotor speed change with age? What can family and caretakers of the elderly,automobile manufacturers,and transportation departments do to help the elderly cope with these changes?
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Chapter 6: Friends,family,and Community
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Q1) Studies of friendships among the elderly have found
A) Less than half of the elderly had a close friend.
B) Men were more often named as close friends than women.
C) The average length of acquaintance with a close friend was five years.
D) Most elderly friends keep in touch weekly.
Q2) Studies of convoys found
A) those of the elderly average about five members.
B) men usually dominate.
C) some people drop out and others join the convoy after it has begun.
D) members of convoys stay virtually the same throughout life.
Q3) In a study by Dorothy Apple it was learned that the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren tended to be ___________and _____ in households where grandparents retained little control.
A) formal; stiff
B) friendly; informal
C) secretive; carefree
D) passive; emotionless
Q4) Religion is the fundamental motive for living of the intrinsically religious.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Intimacy and Sexuality
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Q1) Research indicates which of the following regarding widowhood?
A) Widowhood increases contact between siblings.
B) Friends can offer useful support by not trying to speed recovery and a new identity for the recent widow.
C) Most widows do not lean heavily on anyone for managing basic tasks of daily living until they are in advanced age or poor health.
D) Independence and self-sufficiency will not cause social isolation.
Q2) The concept of ____________ refers to the need to be close to,part of,and familiar with another person.
A) companionship
B) intimacy
C) sexuality
D) friendship
Q3) Which of the following is an aspect of the process,in contrast to the structure,of friendship relationships?
A) the size of the friendship network
B) the proportion of friends that know one another
C) how similar the network members are
D) the activities conducted
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Chapter 8: Work and Leisure
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Q1) Of the following,the working-class are LEAST likely to be represented in ______________ according to Guillemard.
A) withdrawal
B) acceptance retirement
C) protest retirement
D) leisure retirement
Q2) The most important factor in adjustment to retirement is
A) mindset.
B) financial condition and physical being.
C) life style.
D) family.
Q3) In the agricultural era of the United States,
A) most workers retired before age 65.
B) stopping work tended to be abrupt.
C) the older farmer with property could usually support themselves in old age.
D) most elders ended up in alms houses or died of malnutrition or neglect.
Q4) Studies show that retirement,in and of itself,contributes to poor health.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What factors affect adjustment to and satisfaction with retirement?
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Chapter 9: Finances and Lifestyles
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Q1) The poverty rate for persons age 65 and over A) increased between 1970 and 2000. B) is below the poverty rate for children. C) is slightly less than the rate for persons 18 to 64. D) was 24.6 percent in 2000.
Q2) About ______ percent of older home owners in 1995 owned their homes free and clear.
A) 35
B) 50
C) 65
D) 80
Q3) In 1945,42 workers supported one retiree; today,_______ workers support a retiree.
A) 3
B) 5
C) 12
D) 24
Q4) Aging has been considered to be a dimensional phenomenon,
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Living Environments
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Q1) According to empirical evidence,The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA)has failed to significantly improve the quality of nursing homes because
A) it does not require training for nurses' aides.
B) it does not require certified social workers to be employed.
C) it did not strengthened patients' rights in their treatment decisions.
D) nursing homes are only occasionally audited because of understaffed health departments.
Q2) Older people are more likely to reside in A) institutions.
B) age-segregated housing.
C) resort condominiums.
D) ordinary houses in ordinary neighborhoods.
Q3) According to your text,stress has to do with A) estrangement.
B) loss of control.
C) inefficiency.
D) disillusionment.
Q4) What were the provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987? Why has it not significantly improved nursing home care for the elderly?
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Chapter 11: The Oldest Old and Caregiving
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Q1) ________ experience the greatest strain from caregiving to the elderly.
A) Wives
B) Husbands
C) Middle-age daughters
D) Middle-age sons
Q2) The primary predictor of parent-care hours is
A) if the adult child is employed in the labor market.
B) if the adult child has children.
C) the presence of sisters.
D) the age of the adult child.
Q3) Even though there is no clear-cut time at which gerontologists all agree one joins the oldest old,with increases in longevity,the term is most commonly referring to people age _______ and over.
A) 75
B) 80
C) 85
D) 90
Q4) What policies,benefits,and services could businesses offer to help employees who are home caregivers for frail elderly?
Q5) Why is parental caregiving so difficult for middle-age daughters?
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Chapter 12: Special Problems
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Q1) What are the problems associated with older inmates of our nation's prisons?
Q2) There are fewer alcohol-related problems among heavy drinkers who are elderly than among those who are younger.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most common form of abuse of the elderly is
A) neglect.
B) financial or material abuse.
C) psychological abuse.
D) violation of rights.
Q4) What are the arguments for and against protecting the elderly from crime by segregating them into walled and guarded retirement communities?
Q5) Elder fraud is thought to be underreported and researchers have concluded that _______ percent of cases go unreported.
A) 15
B) 20
C) 80
D) 95
Q6) Why do the elderly commit crimes?
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Chapter 13: Women and Ethnic Groups
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Q1) Of the following groups,_______________ are most likely to suffer from chronic illnesses and disabilities.
A) Native Americans
B) African Americans
C) Hispanics
D) Asian Americans
Q2) Which of the following are LEAST likely to live in urban areas?
A) Mexican Americans who were born in the U.S.
B) Puerto Ricans
C) Cuban-Americans
D) older immigrants to Texas
Q3) What can be done to improve the economic and health status of ethnic elders?
Q4) Southeast Asian Americans
A) value mothers and grandmothers more than fathers and grandfathers.
B) have strong extended family ties.
C) are located mostly in the Northeast states of New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New York.
D) have adjusted easily to the U.S. because WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnamese War changed the cultures of their homelands to ones similar to the dominant American culture.
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Chapter 14: Death and Dying
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Q1) Studies of nursing home residents show that chronological age is a better predictor of disengagement than the sense of closeness to death.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1997,______ was the first state to pass a law allowing physician assisted suicide.
A) Oregon
B) California
C) New York
D) Texas
Q3) According to your text,around ______ percent of the general public favors legalization of physician-assisted suicide.
A) 50
B) 66
C) 75
D) 90
Q4) All fifty states have legislation allowing for living wills.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Politics, policies, and Programs
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Q1) Age is a major variable affecting the political decisions of old A) presidential candidates.
B) Congressmen.
C) Supreme Court justices.
D) None of these choices.
Q2) The National Center on Black Aged in Washington,D.C.is the location for all of the following activities to benefit black elderly EXCEPT A) education.
B) employment.
C) health.
D) housing.
Q3) The Gray Panthers is a politically conservative organization that advocates privatization of Social Security.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Look thirty years ahead and describe what kind of a future you can see for elders in America.
Q5) Explain both sides of the generational equity debate.Where do you stand?
Q6) Describe the Foster Grandparents Program and who funds it.
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