HDFS 1070 module 11 study Guide
(latest update 2025-2026) questions and
answers 100% correct {Grade A}
Why is chronological age a poor predictor? - correct answer -poor guide for people
as they get older, less relevant (80 yr old friend still skied)
-more important: health & psychological outlook
Developmental Tasks of Elderhood - correct answer -Coping with the physical
changes of aging
-Developing a psychohistorical perspective
-Traveling uncharted territory: life structures in elderhood
Crisis in Elderhood - correct answer Immortality vs Extinction (A conflict between the
acceptance of death and the intensifying hope for immortality
Immortality - correct answer -positive pole
-the person transcends death through a sense of symbolic continuity
Extinction - correct answer -negative pole
-a fear that one's life & its end, amount to nothing
Ego Quality of Immortality vs Extinction - correct answer Confidence
Core Pathology of Immortality vs Extinction - correct answer Diffidence
, HDFS 1070 module 11 study Guide
(latest update 2025-2026) questions and
answers 100% correct {Grade A}
Social Clock - correct answer Points in time when you should accomplish specific
events (e.g. marriage)
Grand-parenting is affected by two factors - correct answer 1. Increased life
expectancy
2. Fertility
What fraction of adults will be grandparents? - correct answer 3/4
What fraction of parents will become grandparents? - correct answer 9/10
Possible roles that grandparents fulfill - correct answer -Bengston
-Kornhaber & Woodward
-Cherlin & Furstenberg
What percentage of grandparents raise their grandchildren? - correct answer 8-9%
Bengson role - correct answer -symbolic (being there)
-national guard (when parents need help)
-active participant in family's social construction of its history
-surrogate parents
Kornhaber & Woodward role - correct answer -historian
(latest update 2025-2026) questions and
answers 100% correct {Grade A}
Why is chronological age a poor predictor? - correct answer -poor guide for people
as they get older, less relevant (80 yr old friend still skied)
-more important: health & psychological outlook
Developmental Tasks of Elderhood - correct answer -Coping with the physical
changes of aging
-Developing a psychohistorical perspective
-Traveling uncharted territory: life structures in elderhood
Crisis in Elderhood - correct answer Immortality vs Extinction (A conflict between the
acceptance of death and the intensifying hope for immortality
Immortality - correct answer -positive pole
-the person transcends death through a sense of symbolic continuity
Extinction - correct answer -negative pole
-a fear that one's life & its end, amount to nothing
Ego Quality of Immortality vs Extinction - correct answer Confidence
Core Pathology of Immortality vs Extinction - correct answer Diffidence
, HDFS 1070 module 11 study Guide
(latest update 2025-2026) questions and
answers 100% correct {Grade A}
Social Clock - correct answer Points in time when you should accomplish specific
events (e.g. marriage)
Grand-parenting is affected by two factors - correct answer 1. Increased life
expectancy
2. Fertility
What fraction of adults will be grandparents? - correct answer 3/4
What fraction of parents will become grandparents? - correct answer 9/10
Possible roles that grandparents fulfill - correct answer -Bengston
-Kornhaber & Woodward
-Cherlin & Furstenberg
What percentage of grandparents raise their grandchildren? - correct answer 8-9%
Bengson role - correct answer -symbolic (being there)
-national guard (when parents need help)
-active participant in family's social construction of its history
-surrogate parents
Kornhaber & Woodward role - correct answer -historian
