Psyc 3400 Final ACTUAL UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
senescence - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅starting to deteriorate
natural physical decline brought about by increasing age
what changes about the brain occur during this point - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅brain
reaches maximum size and weight
grey matter continues to be pruned and myelination increases
senses at their peak
psychomotor abilities at height
what is the CDC recommended amount of excercise that people should engage in and what
are the benefits - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅30 minutes moderate activitiy 5 days a week
cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, osteoporosis reduced, immune response, decreased
stress/anxiety/depression, increase longevity
secondary aging - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅changes due to health, behaviors, illness and
are not due to actual age itself and are not inevitable
ex- smoking, drinking, drugs, unprotected sex
what is obesity? why do people typically gain weight during young adulthood? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅20%+ average weight for a person of given height
ignore good nutritional practices, physical growth begins to decline, calorie reduction is
necessary, dieting fails
what is stress? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅response to events that threaten or challenge an
individual
primary and secondary appraisals when assessing the severity of stress - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅primary:
first step- individuals assessment of an event to determine whether its implications are
positive, negative, or neutral
,how much time will it take me to do the reading?
secondary:
can i handle it?
assessment of coping abilities and resources are adequate to overcome the challenge posed by
the potential stressor
what time is available to do the reading?
consequences of stress and what are psychosomatic disorders - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅health impacts, increased risk of becomming ill, produce illness
(psychosomatic disorder)
increase difficulty recovering from illness
reduce abilitiy to cope with future stress
4 types of coping with stress - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅problem focused
emotion focused
social support
defensive coping
problem focused coping - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅changing the situation to make it less
stressful
man has on the job stress to he talks to boss to find a solution
emotional focused coping - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅conscious regulation of emotion
look on the brighter side
social support coping - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅assistance or comfort from others
defensive coping - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅unconscious efforts to distort or deny the true
nature of the situation
academic success is unimportant or deny the seriousness of a threatening illness
, what personality characteristic is associated with lower rate of stress related illness -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅hardiness
take charge, optimistic, treating issues into challenges
postformal thought - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅thinking that goes beyond piaget's formal
operations- rather than being purely logical processes, with absolutely right and wrong
answers to the problems, postformal thought acknowledges that adult predicaments must
sometimes be solved in relativistic terms
thinking changes beyond adolescence into early adulthood- thought based on practical
experiences, not just logic- shift away from dualistic thinking where there is a clear right and
wrong to relativistic thinking (thinking about world in less rigid more complex ways with no
clear right or wrong) AND dialectal thinking (interest and appreciation for debate/hearing
differing counterpoints to an argument, shifting of thought between ideal solutions and
practical solutions)
Schaie's stages of cognitive development - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅acquisition of
information
acquisitive
achieving
responsible
executive
reintegrative
acquisitive stage - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅all of childhood and adolescence
first stage of cognitive development in which the main developmental task is to acquire
information
achieving stage - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅early adulthood/young adults
applying their intelligence to attaining long term goals regarding teir careers, family, and
contributions to society
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
senescence - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅starting to deteriorate
natural physical decline brought about by increasing age
what changes about the brain occur during this point - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅brain
reaches maximum size and weight
grey matter continues to be pruned and myelination increases
senses at their peak
psychomotor abilities at height
what is the CDC recommended amount of excercise that people should engage in and what
are the benefits - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅30 minutes moderate activitiy 5 days a week
cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, osteoporosis reduced, immune response, decreased
stress/anxiety/depression, increase longevity
secondary aging - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅changes due to health, behaviors, illness and
are not due to actual age itself and are not inevitable
ex- smoking, drinking, drugs, unprotected sex
what is obesity? why do people typically gain weight during young adulthood? - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅20%+ average weight for a person of given height
ignore good nutritional practices, physical growth begins to decline, calorie reduction is
necessary, dieting fails
what is stress? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅response to events that threaten or challenge an
individual
primary and secondary appraisals when assessing the severity of stress - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅primary:
first step- individuals assessment of an event to determine whether its implications are
positive, negative, or neutral
,how much time will it take me to do the reading?
secondary:
can i handle it?
assessment of coping abilities and resources are adequate to overcome the challenge posed by
the potential stressor
what time is available to do the reading?
consequences of stress and what are psychosomatic disorders - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅health impacts, increased risk of becomming ill, produce illness
(psychosomatic disorder)
increase difficulty recovering from illness
reduce abilitiy to cope with future stress
4 types of coping with stress - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅problem focused
emotion focused
social support
defensive coping
problem focused coping - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅changing the situation to make it less
stressful
man has on the job stress to he talks to boss to find a solution
emotional focused coping - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅conscious regulation of emotion
look on the brighter side
social support coping - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅assistance or comfort from others
defensive coping - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅unconscious efforts to distort or deny the true
nature of the situation
academic success is unimportant or deny the seriousness of a threatening illness
, what personality characteristic is associated with lower rate of stress related illness -
CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅hardiness
take charge, optimistic, treating issues into challenges
postformal thought - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅thinking that goes beyond piaget's formal
operations- rather than being purely logical processes, with absolutely right and wrong
answers to the problems, postformal thought acknowledges that adult predicaments must
sometimes be solved in relativistic terms
thinking changes beyond adolescence into early adulthood- thought based on practical
experiences, not just logic- shift away from dualistic thinking where there is a clear right and
wrong to relativistic thinking (thinking about world in less rigid more complex ways with no
clear right or wrong) AND dialectal thinking (interest and appreciation for debate/hearing
differing counterpoints to an argument, shifting of thought between ideal solutions and
practical solutions)
Schaie's stages of cognitive development - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅acquisition of
information
acquisitive
achieving
responsible
executive
reintegrative
acquisitive stage - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅all of childhood and adolescence
first stage of cognitive development in which the main developmental task is to acquire
information
achieving stage - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅early adulthood/young adults
applying their intelligence to attaining long term goals regarding teir careers, family, and
contributions to society
