ADULT 2 A+ COMPILED COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Environmental press refers to the physical, interpersonal, or ___
demands that environments put on people.
Answer: social
◉ When people encounter changes in their particular combinations
of environmental press and competence, they respond with...
Answer: proactivity or docility
◉ Sophie, an 80-year-old woman with several chronic medical
conditions, was placed in a nursing home. At first, she was cheerful
and active, but now she is withdrawn and depressed. This nursing
home is for people with severe cognitive deficits. How would this
situation be analyzed in the competence model of Lawton and
Nahemow?
Answer: This behavior is due to high personal competence and low
environmental press.
◉ Older adults tend to engage in ____ more than ____.
Answer: corrective adaptations; preventative adaptations
,◉ Everyday competence is a person's...
Answer: potential ability to perform a wide range of tasks.
◉ Ecology of aging, or ____, seeks to understand the dynamic
relations between older adults and the environments they inhabit.
Answer: environmental psychology
◉ What is the major aspect of aging in place?
Answer: Feeling at home
◉ A high degree of ____ in communication with oneself and one's
family is essential when deciding the best place for an older adult to
live.
Answer: honesty
◉ Although the evidence suggests that there are many benefits to
adult day care, such as reducing caregiver burden, one key factor in
adult day care success is...
Answer: whether the programs and services are culturally sensitive.
◉ Housing options for older adults that provide a supportive living
arrangement for people who need assistance with personal care, but
,who are not so impaired they need 24-hour care, describes which of
the following...
a) congregate housing
b) nursing home
c) adult day care
d) assisted living
Answer: d) assisted living
◉ On any given day, only about ___ of older adults live in a nursing
home.
Answer: 5%
◉ Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the information-
processing approach?
a) Information is processed through a series of processes.
b) Information is handled in the system in an untransformed
manner.
c) Both quantitative and qualitative aspects of performance can be
examined.
d) People are active participants in the process.
Answer: b) Information is handled in the system in an
untransformed manner.
, ◉ A computer analogy is used to explain...
Answer: the information processing approach.
◉ What part of the information processing system has an unlimited
capacity, takes in information rapidly, and is almost an identical
representation of the stimuli as it exists in the observable
environment?
Answer: Sensory memory
◉ Research evidence indicates that the oldest adults have more
irrelevant thoughts during processing tasks and have more trouble
keeping these irrelevant thoughts out of mind. This is evidence of...
Answer: inhibitory loss
◉ The amount of information that can be processed at any given
time is called the...
Answer: attentional capacity.
◉ Research findings that indicate differences between older and
younger adults with issues such as memory, attentional capacity, and
processing speed must be interpreted carefully. Why?
Answer: Age differences are sensitive to the conditions under which
they are measured.
REVIEW 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Environmental press refers to the physical, interpersonal, or ___
demands that environments put on people.
Answer: social
◉ When people encounter changes in their particular combinations
of environmental press and competence, they respond with...
Answer: proactivity or docility
◉ Sophie, an 80-year-old woman with several chronic medical
conditions, was placed in a nursing home. At first, she was cheerful
and active, but now she is withdrawn and depressed. This nursing
home is for people with severe cognitive deficits. How would this
situation be analyzed in the competence model of Lawton and
Nahemow?
Answer: This behavior is due to high personal competence and low
environmental press.
◉ Older adults tend to engage in ____ more than ____.
Answer: corrective adaptations; preventative adaptations
,◉ Everyday competence is a person's...
Answer: potential ability to perform a wide range of tasks.
◉ Ecology of aging, or ____, seeks to understand the dynamic
relations between older adults and the environments they inhabit.
Answer: environmental psychology
◉ What is the major aspect of aging in place?
Answer: Feeling at home
◉ A high degree of ____ in communication with oneself and one's
family is essential when deciding the best place for an older adult to
live.
Answer: honesty
◉ Although the evidence suggests that there are many benefits to
adult day care, such as reducing caregiver burden, one key factor in
adult day care success is...
Answer: whether the programs and services are culturally sensitive.
◉ Housing options for older adults that provide a supportive living
arrangement for people who need assistance with personal care, but
,who are not so impaired they need 24-hour care, describes which of
the following...
a) congregate housing
b) nursing home
c) adult day care
d) assisted living
Answer: d) assisted living
◉ On any given day, only about ___ of older adults live in a nursing
home.
Answer: 5%
◉ Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the information-
processing approach?
a) Information is processed through a series of processes.
b) Information is handled in the system in an untransformed
manner.
c) Both quantitative and qualitative aspects of performance can be
examined.
d) People are active participants in the process.
Answer: b) Information is handled in the system in an
untransformed manner.
, ◉ A computer analogy is used to explain...
Answer: the information processing approach.
◉ What part of the information processing system has an unlimited
capacity, takes in information rapidly, and is almost an identical
representation of the stimuli as it exists in the observable
environment?
Answer: Sensory memory
◉ Research evidence indicates that the oldest adults have more
irrelevant thoughts during processing tasks and have more trouble
keeping these irrelevant thoughts out of mind. This is evidence of...
Answer: inhibitory loss
◉ The amount of information that can be processed at any given
time is called the...
Answer: attentional capacity.
◉ Research findings that indicate differences between older and
younger adults with issues such as memory, attentional capacity, and
processing speed must be interpreted carefully. Why?
Answer: Age differences are sensitive to the conditions under which
they are measured.
