DEP Final Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
Menopause - answer✔✔a woman permanently stops ovulating and menstruating
Drop in estrogen & progesterone
Alzheimer's disease - answer✔✔robs person of intelligence, awareness, ability
to control bodily functions, & finally kills them
Hypertension - answer✔✔(high blood pressure) risk factor for cardiovascular and kidney
diseases.
Diabetes - answer✔✔cells lose ability to use insulin produced
Primary Aging - answer✔✔- Gradual, inevitable process of aging
- Occurs throughout years, despite efforts to slow it
Secondary Aging - answer✔✔- Results from disease, abuse, and disuse
- Factors within a person's control
Seattle Longitudinal Study - answer✔✔Cognitively, middle-aged people are in their
prime
- Most participants showed no significant
reduction in ability until late 60s
Sandwich Generation - answer✔✔A grown up person who's caring for both their elderly parents
and their own children
Fluid Intelligence - answer✔✔ability to solve novel problems with speed & efficiency tends to
decline with age; ability to solve problems in one's expertise increases
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Crystalized Intelligence - answer✔✔ability to remember & use information acquired over a
lifetime continues to increase with age
Ageism - answer✔✔prejudice or discrimination based on age
Adult children leaving and returning home - answer✔✔Failure to launch
- adult children delay leaving home
Adult children returning to parents' home
- Revolving door syndrome, boomerang
kids
Functional Age - answer✔✔How well a person functions physically and socially in comparison
with others the same age
Macular Degeneration - answer✔✔retina loses ability to distinguish details
Generativity - answer✔✔Concern for guiding the next generation & for expanding one's own
development
Teaching and mentorship
Parenting and grandparenting
Productivity or creativity
"Self generation" or self-development
Volunteering
Mid-life crisis - answer✔✔stressful period triggered by reevaluation of one's life (post formal
thought)
Centration - answer✔✔Ages 3 to 6
tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation
Conservation - answer✔✔Ages 3 to 6
Children at this age lack this concept