" Elders are Leeches on society" This is an example of age grading.

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Birthday parties typically celebrate a persons biological age.

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A family expectation to do well in college is considered an exogenous life course factor

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The majority of the worlds older (65+) population live in the highly developed countries of the world

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Age stratification is the basic grouping of people according to some percieved value of certain age groups

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Menarche refers to the loss of the biological capacity for reproduction

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If YOU won the lottery, it would be a direct personal expericence for you

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An isolated cornfield in the central US, which you have never seen and holds no special meaning to you, is an example of a space.

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A married couple and their children living within the same place represents a multi-generation household.

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A persons historic past involves that period of time before the persons birth

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Social age can be dynamic

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A utopian perspective believes in the perfectibility of humankind  and the ability of society to fix any problems relating to population change

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The Baby Boom cohort was born between 1940 and 1960

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A chronic condition, such as Alzheimers disease, can cause an acute medical condition such as a prescription drug overdose.

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An event refers to the process of changing state of existence, for example from unemployed to employed.

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The majority of births in the US occur outside of marriage.

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The accident hump within an age schedule of mortality disappears within highly developed countries.

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Womean generally have higher levels of morbidity than do men.

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Which of the following is an example of a static population characteristic?

a. Body Weight

b. Ethnicity

c. Sex

D. Employment Status

Our ability to think and behave appropriately, and the way we think and behave define:

a. Chronological Age

b. Biological Age

c. Mental/Behavioral Age

d. Social Age

Age norms refer to

a. Identifiable biologic characteristics associated with specific ages

b. Social expectations linked to particular ages or age groups

c. The fact that chronological age and calendar time are directly related

d. Mutually agreed upon communication across age groups.

As soon as you walk out of this classroom, this testing experience will be a part of your

a. Immediate past

b. Life past

c. Historic past

d. Not long ago past

What best distinguishes between a persons immediate past and life past?

a. Experiences in the immediate past are more likely ot be forgotten.

b. There is more opportunity for memories of experiences in the life past to be modified

c. The immediate past is personal, whereas the life past is social

d. Experiences in the immediate past are direct, whereas in the life past they are indirect

You become and aunt or uncle. This change would be considered:

a. A direct event

b. A counter transition

c. A direct impersonal experience

d. An indirect transition

A good friend overdoses following years of substance abuse. This event causes you to change priorities and increase your positive health and social behaviors. This is an example of:

a. The memory process

b. Experience filters

c. Exogeneous factors

d. Endogeneous factors

Personality, venue complexity, and tme are all examples of

a. The memory process

b. Experience filters

c. Exogeneous Factors

d. Endogeneous Factors

You get in your car and start it, and then begin driving with hardly any thought. What type of memory most allows you to do this?

a. Procedural memory

b. Sensory memory

c. Declaritive memory

d. Autobiographical memory

Thomas Malthus had two basic assumptions about population:

a. All people age, and nobody welcomes age.

b. Social classes are no equal, and lower classes are heavy resource consumers.

c. People prefer others of similar character, and people are motivated by economics.

d. People need to eat, and they like sex too.

And according to Malthus, how do food resources and populations change over time?

a. Food resources and populations both increase geometrically

b. Food resources grow in a linear way, and populations grow geometrically

c. Food resources decline as population increases

d. Food resources eventually grow more rapidly than populations

A marxist view of population growth would be...

a. Most population growth is because of higher fertility among the lower classes.

b. Population growth is a problem that should be fixed by lowering fertility.

c. Capitalism is required to slow the pace of population growth.

d. Problem? There is no actual population problem. But there is a problem in the distribution of and access to resources among different age classes.

Why is the age of 65 years so commonly used to mark old age?

a. Life expectancy at birth averages 65 years.

b. Frailty and loss of function increases dramatically from age 65 and on

c. The social security act of 1935 set 65 years as the age to retire and recieve full benefits

d. Hallmark made it up to improve their birthday card business.

Assume a life expectancy at birth of 78 years, and a life expectancy at age 20 of 59 years. What is the estimated life span at age 20?

a. 59

b.78

c. 79

d. 122

Which of the following involves a permanent change in residence?

a. Commuting

b. Leisure mobility

c. Local moves

d. Daily mobility

You spend several days decorating your new apartment and making sure that all your stuff is right where it should be. This behavior is most associated with...

a. Sense of place

b. Place making

c. Place attachment

d. Place Identity

Primitive humans kept careful records of chronological age

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Throughout most of human existence, social class has influenced health and individual aging

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The largest increase ever in life expectancy at birth occurred during the 20th Century, mostly because of the development and use of antibiotics and immunizations

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Populations get older mostly because of increasing life expectancy.

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Populations get older mostly because of declines in fertility

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Desiccation, as thought of during Greco-Roman times, referred to the impact of desert climates on human longevity

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The idea that health was influenced by the balance in the humors was abadoned after the fall of the Roman Empire

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Early alchemists really did search for the Philosophers Stone as a way to solve death

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Optimal health can be achieved by eliminating all body fat

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For almost all of human history, germs were the biggest killers of humans

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Because of genetic mutation, cancer cells will keep dividing beyond the Hayflick Limit

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Caloric restriction can be dangerous if adequate vitamin and mineral intake is not maintained

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Memories do not change over time

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Benign Senescent Forgetfulness is rare, and associated with severe brain attrophy

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Depression lessesns and eventually disappears with advancing age

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Familial Alzheimers Disease is characterized by late age onset and slow functional decline

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The more elite classes throughout history are likely to live longer because...

a. They have stronger genetic material than poorer class people

b. They have more developed brains than the poorer class people

c. They have better access to proper nutrition, cleanliness, and medical help.

d. They are able to make more babies than the lower class people

Houseflies that are kept in a container so that they can only walk around can live up to 2.5 times longer than houseflies that are allowed to fly all over the palce. This appears to be an example of..

a. Genetic Control Theory

b. Rate of living theory

c. Evolutionary theory

d. Cross-Linkage theory

People who have characteristics that allow for efficient hunting og wooly mastodons, running away from saber tooth tigers, and making a lot of health babies, are more likely to survive and pass those favorable characteristics down through their children. This is an example of...

a. Genetic Control Theory

b. Rate of living theory

c. Evolutionary Theory

d. Cross-Linkage Theory

My skin has more wrinkles, is less stretchy, and is not as soft as it was when i was much younger. This is an example of...

a. Genetic Control Theory

b. Rate of Living Theory

c. Evolutionary Theory

d. Cross-Linkage Theory

Which of the following theories is now considered to best relate to how long humans live?

a. Genetic Control Theory

b. Rate of Living Theory

c. Evolutionary Theory

d. Cross-Linkage Theory

What characteristic LEAST explains why cotton clothing has helped to improve health?

a. Larger variety of colors and sizes than clothes made of other materials.

b. Easier to make than clothes made of other materials

c. Greater availability of cotton than other materials

d. More durability when washed at high temperatures than clothes made of other materials

Which of the following best descirbes the Epidemiologic Transition?

a.The point in life when a body can no longer maintain equilibrium

b.The shift from a young population to an old population

c. The change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.

d. A shift in dominant cause of death, from infectious to chronic and degenerative diseases

The brains white matter is...

a. Dominated by neurons and is where mental processes take place

b.The interior portion made up of myelinated axons and glial cells

c.The accumulation of amyloid plaques over a persons life.

d. The exterior portion that protects the interior thinking part

Neurotransmitters are most associated with what part of a neuron?

a. Synapse

b. Dendrite

c. Axon

d. Nucleus

Pharmaceutical treatments for Alzheimers Disease are most intended to adjust the chemistry at what part of the neuron?

a. Synapse

b. Dendrite

c. Axon

d, Nucleus

An older man is admitted to the hospital for surgery to repair a perforated ulcer in his small intestine.  The surgery goes smoothly and for almost a week his recovery is even better than expected.  But one morning a nurse finds the man feverish, confused, and agitated, and basic psychological testing shows a sudden decline in cognition and memory. His mental condition is most likely the result of...

a. Drug-Related Dementias

b. Vascular Dementias

c. Infection-related dementias

d. Frontotemporal Dementias

Which of the following can negatively affect learning in old age?

a. Increased neuroplasticity

b.Increased perceptual speed

c. Declines in short term processing speed

d. The growth of neurons

Which of the following is not a coping strategy for Benign Senescent Forgetfulness?

a. Using word associations

b. Developing behavioral habits

c. Reliance upon short-term memory

d. Making lists

What are the three priorities in biomedical research on aging?

Support needed to survive

Ex: Help going to the bathroom, eating

Help to maintain healthy mind

Ex: Therapy, talking to one another

Social networks provide emotional support easier but does not provide...

a.informal

b.instrumental

c.formal

d.Kroarks love

D. Kroarks love.... Im fucking with you 

Correct answer is B. Instrumental support(can't help because you are not physically there)

Alzheimers Disease 

Late-Onset-

Alzheimers Disease

Early-Onset

Individuals can be a member of only one social group at a time

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A family is a social group

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Marital satisfication is higher today than ever before

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Social networks provide a first resource for individuals to identify support networks

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Extended families describe the modern parents-children family structure found within economically advanced societies such as the US

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Nuclear families consist of all persons related by blood and marriage

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Formal support network members generally dont get paid for providing help

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Less than 10% of grandparents report being responsible for the care of grandchildren

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Deciding not to have children may eventually cause a person later in life to rely more heavily on informal care

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The women in a family often have the responsibility of caring for older parents.

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Blended families result from people of different races getting married and having children

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Social norms refer to..

a. usual characteristics that desribe a group

b.Common ages

c. Rules of behavior within a group

d. Events in a group that tend to repeat themselves through history

Which of the following is the best example of " Fictive Kin"

a. That best of all friend who is like a brother

b. The grumpy old uncle who only gave you advice for your birthday

c.The grandparent who you know about, but have never met.

d. The imaginary friend who nobody but you can see

Which of the following most accurately describes a trend in marriage over the past century?

a. The ages at first marriage has been gradually increasing

b. The age at first marriage has been decreasing

c. Marriage rates have fallen dramatically, in favor of cohabation

d. The age difference between husband and wife has been decreasing

A man lives with his aging parents by renting space in their basement. Because he rarely ever interacts with them, which level of dependency is he most likely experiencing?

a. Co-dependent

b.Dependent

c.Independent

d.Undependent

A man and women are each living alone, are both in their early thirties and have careers.  They get married but soon discover marriage just isnt working out. They likely are unable to successfully negotiate which level of dependency, which is keeping them from achieving marital satisfication?

a.Co-Dependent

b.Dependent

c.Independent

d.Undependent

Which of the following is an example of formal support?

a. A granddaughter taking her grandfather to an appointment

b. A granddaughter getting paid through a caregiving agency to provide support to help their grandfather throughout the day

c. A granddaughter calling health insurance companies for her grandfather

d. A granddaughter took the time to listen to her grandfathers stories 

Which of the following best describes grandparents raising grandchildren in todays world

a. The frailty of grandparents makes it difficult to care for grandchildren

b. Fewer grandparents are providing such care today compared to the past

c. Skipping the parent generation is more common because of fertility clinics that allow older couples to have children

d. Most grandparents are in their 50s and the parents are likely in prison

Disengagement Theory suggests..

a. Individuals will maintain a certain social network size through the life course.

b. Older individuals increasingly pay more attention to quality of social network members while reducing interactions with less important network members

c. Retirement causes increased isolation through withdraw from social networks

d. Individuals should increase their social interactions at advanced age

Selective Optimization suggests that...

a. Individuals will maintain a certain social network size through the life course.

b. Older individuals increasingly pay more attention to quality of social network members while reducing interactions with less important network members

c. Retirement causes increased isolation through withdraw from social networks

d. Individuals should increase their social interactions at advanced age