HBSE Actual Questions and Correct Answers
Q1
All of the following developmental tasks that older people encounter were listed in the text
except: Continuing social and civic responsibilities Synergistic interaction Maintaining interest in
friends and family ties Reappraising personal values
Answer: B. Synergistic interaction
Q2
It is important in later adulthood to maintain interest in friends and family
Answer: True
Q3
You need to accept the prospect of your own death
Answer: True
Q4
According to Erikson, which of the following is true about older people who achieve integrity:
They have an attitude of calm acceptance of death They may seek death as a way of ending a
miserable existence They may desperately fear death because it makes any hope of
compensating for past failures impossible They view their lives as incomplete and unfulfilling
Answer: a. They have an attitude of calm acceptance of death
Q5
According to Erikson, which of the following is true about the psychological crisis of despair:
This refers to an ability to accept the facts of one's life and to face death without great fear This
is an integration of one's sense of past history with one's present circumstances, and a feeling
of being content with the outcome Older people with despair accept all the events that have
happened to them without trying to deny some unpleasant facts or over-emphasize others This
makes an attitude of calm acceptance of death impossible
Answer: D. This makes an attitude of calm acceptance of death impossible
Q6
According to Erikson, despair is characterized by a feeling of regret about one's past and
includes a continuous nagging desire to have done things differently.
Answer: True
, Q7
Older women are more apt than older men to commit suicide.
Answer: False
Q8
One psychological adjustment in later adulthood involves shifting from body preoccupation to
body transference.
Answer: True
Q9
For older people, the two key elements in a life review are concluding that the past was
meaningful, and learning to accept the inevitability of death.
Answer: True
Q10
Which of the following is true about older people: Most children's books have elderly characters
and portray older people favorably Older people in our society generally hold positions of
economic power Children usually learn their future profession or trade from their parents
Treating older people as incompetent, dependent, and senile may be a self-fulfilling prophecy
as some of the older people end up playing the roles suggested by the stereotypes
Answer: D. Treating older people as incompetent, dependent, and senile may be a
self-fulfilling prophecy as some of the older people end up playing the roles suggested
by the stereotypes.
Q11
Our society has generally been successful in finding something important and satisfying for
older people to do
Answer: False
Q12
The term ageism refers to having negative images of an attitudes toward older people simply
because they are old.
Answer: True
Q1
All of the following developmental tasks that older people encounter were listed in the text
except: Continuing social and civic responsibilities Synergistic interaction Maintaining interest in
friends and family ties Reappraising personal values
Answer: B. Synergistic interaction
Q2
It is important in later adulthood to maintain interest in friends and family
Answer: True
Q3
You need to accept the prospect of your own death
Answer: True
Q4
According to Erikson, which of the following is true about older people who achieve integrity:
They have an attitude of calm acceptance of death They may seek death as a way of ending a
miserable existence They may desperately fear death because it makes any hope of
compensating for past failures impossible They view their lives as incomplete and unfulfilling
Answer: a. They have an attitude of calm acceptance of death
Q5
According to Erikson, which of the following is true about the psychological crisis of despair:
This refers to an ability to accept the facts of one's life and to face death without great fear This
is an integration of one's sense of past history with one's present circumstances, and a feeling
of being content with the outcome Older people with despair accept all the events that have
happened to them without trying to deny some unpleasant facts or over-emphasize others This
makes an attitude of calm acceptance of death impossible
Answer: D. This makes an attitude of calm acceptance of death impossible
Q6
According to Erikson, despair is characterized by a feeling of regret about one's past and
includes a continuous nagging desire to have done things differently.
Answer: True
, Q7
Older women are more apt than older men to commit suicide.
Answer: False
Q8
One psychological adjustment in later adulthood involves shifting from body preoccupation to
body transference.
Answer: True
Q9
For older people, the two key elements in a life review are concluding that the past was
meaningful, and learning to accept the inevitability of death.
Answer: True
Q10
Which of the following is true about older people: Most children's books have elderly characters
and portray older people favorably Older people in our society generally hold positions of
economic power Children usually learn their future profession or trade from their parents
Treating older people as incompetent, dependent, and senile may be a self-fulfilling prophecy
as some of the older people end up playing the roles suggested by the stereotypes
Answer: D. Treating older people as incompetent, dependent, and senile may be a
self-fulfilling prophecy as some of the older people end up playing the roles suggested
by the stereotypes.
Q11
Our society has generally been successful in finding something important and satisfying for
older people to do
Answer: False
Q12
The term ageism refers to having negative images of an attitudes toward older people simply
because they are old.
Answer: True
