PSYC 210 EXAMPREP REVIEW SHEET WITH
TESTED QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● middle adulthood
Answer: 40-(~)65yrs
●● late adulthood
Answer: 65yrs-death
●● primary aging (senescence)
Answer: basic, underlying, inevitable aging process; biological and
universal
●● secondary aging
Answer: age related changes that are due to social/environmental
factors, poor health habits, or disease
●● biological embedding
Answer: how social circumstances in the first few yesss of life result in
epigenetic modifications in the brain and body systems that determine
the trajectory of a persons health through adulthood
,●● maximum oxygen uptake (VO2 max)
Answer: measure of the body's ability to take in and transport oxygen to
various organs
●● intimate partner violence (IPV)
Answer: physical acts or other behaviour intended to intimidate or harm
an intimate partner
●● sexual assault
Answer: any act of a sexual nature committed by a person against
another that violates the latter persons sexual integrity or to which they
did not consent
●● schizophrenia
Answer: characterized by disturbances of thought, including at least one
of: delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech
●● delusions
Answer: false beliefs despite proof
●● hallucinations
Answer: seeing things that are not there
, ●● disorganized speech
Answer: going off topic or incoherently talking
●● 3 phases of schizophrenia
Answer: prodromal, active, residual
●● postformal thinking
Answer: a proposed fifth stage of cognitive development that emerges in
early 20s in response to problems unique to adulthood
●● relativism (postformal thought)
Answer: some propositions cannot be adequately described as either true
or false
●● dialectical (postformal thought)
Answer: open mode of understanding that accepts paradox and
uncertainty
●● reflective judgement (postformal thought)
Answer: ability to identify the underlying assumptions of differing
perspectives on controversial issues; develops in 7 stages similar to
Kohlberg's moral reasoning
TESTED QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● middle adulthood
Answer: 40-(~)65yrs
●● late adulthood
Answer: 65yrs-death
●● primary aging (senescence)
Answer: basic, underlying, inevitable aging process; biological and
universal
●● secondary aging
Answer: age related changes that are due to social/environmental
factors, poor health habits, or disease
●● biological embedding
Answer: how social circumstances in the first few yesss of life result in
epigenetic modifications in the brain and body systems that determine
the trajectory of a persons health through adulthood
,●● maximum oxygen uptake (VO2 max)
Answer: measure of the body's ability to take in and transport oxygen to
various organs
●● intimate partner violence (IPV)
Answer: physical acts or other behaviour intended to intimidate or harm
an intimate partner
●● sexual assault
Answer: any act of a sexual nature committed by a person against
another that violates the latter persons sexual integrity or to which they
did not consent
●● schizophrenia
Answer: characterized by disturbances of thought, including at least one
of: delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech
●● delusions
Answer: false beliefs despite proof
●● hallucinations
Answer: seeing things that are not there
, ●● disorganized speech
Answer: going off topic or incoherently talking
●● 3 phases of schizophrenia
Answer: prodromal, active, residual
●● postformal thinking
Answer: a proposed fifth stage of cognitive development that emerges in
early 20s in response to problems unique to adulthood
●● relativism (postformal thought)
Answer: some propositions cannot be adequately described as either true
or false
●● dialectical (postformal thought)
Answer: open mode of understanding that accepts paradox and
uncertainty
●● reflective judgement (postformal thought)
Answer: ability to identify the underlying assumptions of differing
perspectives on controversial issues; develops in 7 stages similar to
Kohlberg's moral reasoning
