RST 230 CORRECT STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Short Term Memory - ✔✔primary, where the information is organized and
temporarily held, ability to retain impression of sensory information after the original
have ended
✔✔Long Term Memory - ✔✔secondary, intended for storage of information over a long
period of time
✔✔Life Span - ✔✔fixed maximum age, how long you can live
✔✔life expectancy - ✔✔the projected number of years that a person is expected to live
based on his her genetic heritage and environmental conditions
✔✔Social Networks in Older Adulthood - ✔✔marriage, divorce, widowed
✔✔Age based rec: Core Activities - ✔✔participation in these activities stable over the
life time, cheap, no resources, no skill, stable participation rates
✔✔Age Based Rec: Balance Activities - ✔✔more expensive, more skill based,
participation varies over the lifespan
✔✔Age based rec: Rec and Leisure motivations - ✔✔improving mental health, fills your
time, to seem younger, don't want to leave money, learning knew skills
✔✔Age based Rec: Rec and Leisure constraints - ✔✔physically cant function,
transportation, price, scared, social isolation, lack of knowledge of opportunities,
✔✔Provisions of leisure services for senior citizens - ✔✔they are the same, have the
same desires, want to explore, want to be stimulated, want new things
, ✔✔disability - ✔✔any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to
perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human
being
✔✔handicap - ✔✔A disadvantage for a given individual that limits or prevents the
fulfillments of a role that is normal
✔✔arthritis - ✔✔conditions that involve inflammation of the joints, that result in stiffness,
swelling, redness and pain
✔✔impairment - ✔✔any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or
anatomical structure or function
✔✔osteoarthirits - ✔✔cartilage in your joints disappear, most common (70s-80s) wear
and tear
treatment: drugs and prp
✔✔rheumatoid arthritis - ✔✔autoimmune disorders, immune system attacks the tissue
around the joints/linings of the joints, often mistaken for flu- fever muscle aches,
sweating, you can see lymph nodes
swimming helps
✔✔celebral palsy - ✔✔damage to the motor portion of the brain, happens in the
prenatal stage or during the delivery
✔✔spastic celebral palsy - ✔✔stiff, permanently contracted muscles
most common
affective limbs are shorter, shaking, gets worse with stress (pos or neg)
vision and speaking problems
✔✔dyskinetic celebral palsy - ✔✔60-70% of cases
slow and controlled twisting movements of muscles
face, hands, legs, etc
✔✔ataxic celebral palsy - ✔✔disturbance of balance and sense of direction
intention tremors
✔✔multiple sclerosis (MS) - ✔✔disease of your central nervous system, effects brain
and spine.
✔✔muscular dystrophy - ✔✔general designation for a group of chronic heredity
diseases, characterized by progressive degeneration and weakness of voluntary
muscles
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Short Term Memory - ✔✔primary, where the information is organized and
temporarily held, ability to retain impression of sensory information after the original
have ended
✔✔Long Term Memory - ✔✔secondary, intended for storage of information over a long
period of time
✔✔Life Span - ✔✔fixed maximum age, how long you can live
✔✔life expectancy - ✔✔the projected number of years that a person is expected to live
based on his her genetic heritage and environmental conditions
✔✔Social Networks in Older Adulthood - ✔✔marriage, divorce, widowed
✔✔Age based rec: Core Activities - ✔✔participation in these activities stable over the
life time, cheap, no resources, no skill, stable participation rates
✔✔Age Based Rec: Balance Activities - ✔✔more expensive, more skill based,
participation varies over the lifespan
✔✔Age based rec: Rec and Leisure motivations - ✔✔improving mental health, fills your
time, to seem younger, don't want to leave money, learning knew skills
✔✔Age based Rec: Rec and Leisure constraints - ✔✔physically cant function,
transportation, price, scared, social isolation, lack of knowledge of opportunities,
✔✔Provisions of leisure services for senior citizens - ✔✔they are the same, have the
same desires, want to explore, want to be stimulated, want new things
, ✔✔disability - ✔✔any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to
perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human
being
✔✔handicap - ✔✔A disadvantage for a given individual that limits or prevents the
fulfillments of a role that is normal
✔✔arthritis - ✔✔conditions that involve inflammation of the joints, that result in stiffness,
swelling, redness and pain
✔✔impairment - ✔✔any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or
anatomical structure or function
✔✔osteoarthirits - ✔✔cartilage in your joints disappear, most common (70s-80s) wear
and tear
treatment: drugs and prp
✔✔rheumatoid arthritis - ✔✔autoimmune disorders, immune system attacks the tissue
around the joints/linings of the joints, often mistaken for flu- fever muscle aches,
sweating, you can see lymph nodes
swimming helps
✔✔celebral palsy - ✔✔damage to the motor portion of the brain, happens in the
prenatal stage or during the delivery
✔✔spastic celebral palsy - ✔✔stiff, permanently contracted muscles
most common
affective limbs are shorter, shaking, gets worse with stress (pos or neg)
vision and speaking problems
✔✔dyskinetic celebral palsy - ✔✔60-70% of cases
slow and controlled twisting movements of muscles
face, hands, legs, etc
✔✔ataxic celebral palsy - ✔✔disturbance of balance and sense of direction
intention tremors
✔✔multiple sclerosis (MS) - ✔✔disease of your central nervous system, effects brain
and spine.
✔✔muscular dystrophy - ✔✔general designation for a group of chronic heredity
diseases, characterized by progressive degeneration and weakness of voluntary
muscles
