HDFS Exam 3 UPDATED Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Primary aging - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Aging that involves universal and irreversible
changes that, due to genetic programming, occur as people get older is called ____________.
hypertension - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The "silent killer" refers ___________.
automatic processing of information - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- People with expertise are
likely to demonstrate ___________.
practical intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Johnny has watched his twin brother climb
up and down stairs. When his brother reaches the top of the stairs, he immediately goes to his
mother and she gives him a treat. Johnny is now attempting to climb stairs. According to
Sternberg, this is an example of ___________.
substantiates the U-shaped pattern in which marital satisfaction is high at the beginning,
drops down around the birth of children, and then gradually rises back to its original high
level - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Most research regarding martial satisfaction
_____________.
Homogamy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ____________ is the tendency to marry someone
who is similar in age, race, education, and religion.
fluid intelligence does decline; however, crystallized intelligence holds steady and can
improve - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- When developmentalists looked at the two kinds of
intelligence, fluid and crystallized, to determine if intelligence continues to grow, slow, or
decline with age, they determined that _____________.
Selective optimization with compensation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Which model of
successful aging was developed by Paul and Margaret Baltes and focuses on the assumption
that late adulthood brings changes and losses in underlying capabilities that vary from person
to person?
, social support - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Mita is 21 years old. She has two jobs and is
attending a local college. Due to her hectic schedule, she is experiencing several stressors that
are contributing to physical ailments. Mita does not want to take medication for her stress, so
the college therapist suggests that Mita try to increase contact with her friends as a means of
decreasing her stress. Turning to friends for assistance and comfort is referred to as
__________.
analysis of data to solve problems using previously learned information - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- In Sternberg's Theory of intelligence, the componential aspect of intelligence
deals with ___________.
a "cognitive reserve" that allows them to continue to perform at a relatively high mental level
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Researcher Timothy Salthouse suggests that if people are
mentally active all of their lives, they enter late adulthood with ___________.
generativity-versus-stagnation stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Erikson suggested that
middle adulthood encompasses a period he characterized as ___________, in which a person
feels that he or she is or is not making a contribution to family and community.
stress - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The physical and emotional response to events that
threaten or challenge us is called ___________.
b.peripheral slowing hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The notion that the nerves that
branch out from the spinal cord and brain become less efficient with age is called
____________.
unfamiliar things - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Older people find it harder to recall
information regarding ____________.
the settling process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- George is experiencing back pain. His
doctor tells him the bones attached to his spinal column have become less dense. The doctor
is referring to ____________.
People are living together - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Which of the following is a factor
that contributes to the phenomenon called the "sandwich generation"
CORRECT Answers
Primary aging - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Aging that involves universal and irreversible
changes that, due to genetic programming, occur as people get older is called ____________.
hypertension - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The "silent killer" refers ___________.
automatic processing of information - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- People with expertise are
likely to demonstrate ___________.
practical intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Johnny has watched his twin brother climb
up and down stairs. When his brother reaches the top of the stairs, he immediately goes to his
mother and she gives him a treat. Johnny is now attempting to climb stairs. According to
Sternberg, this is an example of ___________.
substantiates the U-shaped pattern in which marital satisfaction is high at the beginning,
drops down around the birth of children, and then gradually rises back to its original high
level - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Most research regarding martial satisfaction
_____________.
Homogamy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ____________ is the tendency to marry someone
who is similar in age, race, education, and religion.
fluid intelligence does decline; however, crystallized intelligence holds steady and can
improve - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- When developmentalists looked at the two kinds of
intelligence, fluid and crystallized, to determine if intelligence continues to grow, slow, or
decline with age, they determined that _____________.
Selective optimization with compensation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Which model of
successful aging was developed by Paul and Margaret Baltes and focuses on the assumption
that late adulthood brings changes and losses in underlying capabilities that vary from person
to person?
, social support - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Mita is 21 years old. She has two jobs and is
attending a local college. Due to her hectic schedule, she is experiencing several stressors that
are contributing to physical ailments. Mita does not want to take medication for her stress, so
the college therapist suggests that Mita try to increase contact with her friends as a means of
decreasing her stress. Turning to friends for assistance and comfort is referred to as
__________.
analysis of data to solve problems using previously learned information - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- In Sternberg's Theory of intelligence, the componential aspect of intelligence
deals with ___________.
a "cognitive reserve" that allows them to continue to perform at a relatively high mental level
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Researcher Timothy Salthouse suggests that if people are
mentally active all of their lives, they enter late adulthood with ___________.
generativity-versus-stagnation stage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Erikson suggested that
middle adulthood encompasses a period he characterized as ___________, in which a person
feels that he or she is or is not making a contribution to family and community.
stress - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The physical and emotional response to events that
threaten or challenge us is called ___________.
b.peripheral slowing hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The notion that the nerves that
branch out from the spinal cord and brain become less efficient with age is called
____________.
unfamiliar things - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Older people find it harder to recall
information regarding ____________.
the settling process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- George is experiencing back pain. His
doctor tells him the bones attached to his spinal column have become less dense. The doctor
is referring to ____________.
People are living together - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Which of the following is a factor
that contributes to the phenomenon called the "sandwich generation"
