Psych 381 - Psyc of Adult Development Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Gerontology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The study of aging from maturity
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through old age | |
Ageism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A form of discrimination against older
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adults based on their age
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Life Span Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-view that human
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development is multiply determined and cannot be understood within
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the scope of a single framework. States that aging is complex and
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requires input from a variety of perspectives, it is a life long process
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Emphasizes that human development takes a lifetime to complete
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4 Principles of the Lifespan Perceptive (from Paul Baltes) - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1. Mutltidirectionality: Development involves both growth | | | | |
and decline; as people grow in one area, they may lose in another and
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at different rates
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2. Plasticity: Many skills can be trained or improved with practice, even
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in late life (capacity not predetermined)
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3. Historical Context:Each of us develops within a particular set of
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circumstances determined by the historical time in which we are born | | | | | | | | | | |
and the culture in which we grow up
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,4. Multiple Causation: How people develop results from a wide variety
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of forces
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4 Criticisms to Baltes View - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. As people age,
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they show an age-related reduction in the amount and quality of
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biologically based resources. | |
2. There is an age-related increase in the amount and quality of culture
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needed to generate continuously higher growth. Usually results in a net
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slowing of growth as people age.| | | | |
3. People show an age-related decline in the efficiency with which they
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use cultural resources.
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4. There is a lack of cultural, "old-age friendly" support structures
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Aging Demographic Trends USA+CAD - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Larger
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portion of population is reaching old age
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- Our life spans are extending
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- More men are living longer
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- Number of ethnic minority elderly are increasing
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- Future older adults will be better educated
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- Concerns about if healthcare and financial systems can keep up
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Aging Demographics Worldwide - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Number of
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older adults increasing everywhere
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, - Oldest adults = Europe, youngest = Africa
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- Older population in economically powerful countries increasing and
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potentially straining economy | |
- Shrinking supply of workers
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- Main reasong for "aging" is a lower birth rate
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Describe the 4 Developmental Forces - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1.
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Biological: genetic and health- related factors that affect development
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2. Psychological: internal perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and
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personality factors that affect development (provide individuality)
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3. Sociocultural: interpersonal, societal, cultural, and ethnic factors that
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affect development (provide context)
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4. Lifecycle: reflect differences in how the same event or combination of
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biological, psychological, and sociocultural forces affects people at
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different points in their lives | | | |
Biopsychosocial Framework - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Each of us is a | | | | | | | | |
product of a unique combination of these forces that create our
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developmental experience |
Cohort - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a group of people born at the same
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point or specific time span in historical time
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Questions With Correct Answers
Gerontology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The study of aging from maturity
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through old age | |
Ageism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A form of discrimination against older
| | | | | | | | |
adults based on their age
| | | |
Life Span Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-view that human
| | | | | | | |
development is multiply determined and cannot be understood within
| | | | | | | | |
the scope of a single framework. States that aging is complex and
| | | | | | | | | | | |
requires input from a variety of perspectives, it is a life long process
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Emphasizes that human development takes a lifetime to complete
| | | | | | | |
4 Principles of the Lifespan Perceptive (from Paul Baltes) - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-1. Mutltidirectionality: Development involves both growth | | | | |
and decline; as people grow in one area, they may lose in another and
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
at different rates
| |
2. Plasticity: Many skills can be trained or improved with practice, even
| | | | | | | | | | | |
in late life (capacity not predetermined)
| | | | |
3. Historical Context:Each of us develops within a particular set of
| | | | | | | | | | |
circumstances determined by the historical time in which we are born | | | | | | | | | | |
and the culture in which we grow up
| | | | | | |
,4. Multiple Causation: How people develop results from a wide variety
| | | | | | | | | | |
of forces
|
4 Criticisms to Baltes View - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. As people age,
| | | | | | | | | | |
they show an age-related reduction in the amount and quality of
| | | | | | | | | | |
biologically based resources. | |
2. There is an age-related increase in the amount and quality of culture
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
needed to generate continuously higher growth. Usually results in a net
| | | | | | | | | | |
slowing of growth as people age.| | | | |
3. People show an age-related decline in the efficiency with which they
| | | | | | | | | | | |
use cultural resources.
| |
4. There is a lack of cultural, "old-age friendly" support structures
| | | | | | | | | |
Aging Demographic Trends USA+CAD - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Larger
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portion of population is reaching old age
| | | | | |
- Our life spans are extending
| | | | |
- More men are living longer
| | | | |
- Number of ethnic minority elderly are increasing
| | | | | | |
- Future older adults will be better educated
| | | | | | |
- Concerns about if healthcare and financial systems can keep up
| | | | | | | | | |
Aging Demographics Worldwide - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Number of
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older adults increasing everywhere
| | |
, - Oldest adults = Europe, youngest = Africa
| | | | | | |
- Older population in economically powerful countries increasing and
| | | | | | | | |
potentially straining economy | |
- Shrinking supply of workers
| | | |
- Main reasong for "aging" is a lower birth rate
| | | | | | | | |
Describe the 4 Developmental Forces - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1.
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Biological: genetic and health- related factors that affect development
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2. Psychological: internal perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and
| | | | | | |
personality factors that affect development (provide individuality)
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3. Sociocultural: interpersonal, societal, cultural, and ethnic factors that
| | | | | | | | |
affect development (provide context)
| | |
4. Lifecycle: reflect differences in how the same event or combination of
| | | | | | | | | | |
biological, psychological, and sociocultural forces affects people at
| | | | | | | | |
different points in their lives | | | |
Biopsychosocial Framework - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Each of us is a | | | | | | | | |
product of a unique combination of these forces that create our
| | | | | | | | | | |
developmental experience |
Cohort - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a group of people born at the same
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point or specific time span in historical time
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