FMLY 1010 Chapter 9 questions &
answers 2025/2026
Defining old age: 3 groups - correct answer ✔✔- young old (healthy/active)
-old (some health issues)
- oldest old (frail, need care)
Physical transitions: primary aging - correct answer ✔✔- aging involves universal and
irreversible changes that due to genetic programming, occur as ppl get older
-senescence
Physical transitions: secondary aging - correct answer ✔✔- changes in physical and cog
functioning that are due to illness, health habits, other individual differences
- not due to increased age itself and aren't inevitable
Outward signs of aging - correct answer ✔✔- grey/white hair
-wrinkles
- diminishing heights
- double standard for older women
Internal aging - correct answer ✔✔-significant changes
- brain become smaller/lighter
- brain uses less oxygen
- systems are less sufficient
, Slowing reaction time - correct answer ✔✔- slows significantly
- peripheral slowing hypothesis
- generalized slowing hypothesis
Peripheral slowing hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔- the theory that suggests that overall
processing speed declines in the peripheral nervous system with increasing age
- because of this is takes longer info from enviro to reach brain and form commands
generalized slowing hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔- theory that processing in all parts of the
nervous system, including the brain is less efficient
- consequence, slowing occurs throughout the body, including the processing of both simple
and complex stimuli
Vision - correct answer ✔✔- changes to visual apparatus of eye
- 80% of offer ppl report vision problems
- types of problems: cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration
Cataracts - correct answer ✔✔- cloudy ares on the lens of the eye that interfere with the
passage of light
- brings blurred vision
- it left untreated the lens becomes milky white and blindness results
- can be surgically removed
Glaucoma - correct answer ✔✔- occurs when pressure in the fluid of the eye increases
- can be traced by drugs and surgery if caught early on
macular degeneration - correct answer ✔✔- most common cause of blindness in ppl over 60
answers 2025/2026
Defining old age: 3 groups - correct answer ✔✔- young old (healthy/active)
-old (some health issues)
- oldest old (frail, need care)
Physical transitions: primary aging - correct answer ✔✔- aging involves universal and
irreversible changes that due to genetic programming, occur as ppl get older
-senescence
Physical transitions: secondary aging - correct answer ✔✔- changes in physical and cog
functioning that are due to illness, health habits, other individual differences
- not due to increased age itself and aren't inevitable
Outward signs of aging - correct answer ✔✔- grey/white hair
-wrinkles
- diminishing heights
- double standard for older women
Internal aging - correct answer ✔✔-significant changes
- brain become smaller/lighter
- brain uses less oxygen
- systems are less sufficient
, Slowing reaction time - correct answer ✔✔- slows significantly
- peripheral slowing hypothesis
- generalized slowing hypothesis
Peripheral slowing hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔- the theory that suggests that overall
processing speed declines in the peripheral nervous system with increasing age
- because of this is takes longer info from enviro to reach brain and form commands
generalized slowing hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔- theory that processing in all parts of the
nervous system, including the brain is less efficient
- consequence, slowing occurs throughout the body, including the processing of both simple
and complex stimuli
Vision - correct answer ✔✔- changes to visual apparatus of eye
- 80% of offer ppl report vision problems
- types of problems: cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration
Cataracts - correct answer ✔✔- cloudy ares on the lens of the eye that interfere with the
passage of light
- brings blurred vision
- it left untreated the lens becomes milky white and blindness results
- can be surgically removed
Glaucoma - correct answer ✔✔- occurs when pressure in the fluid of the eye increases
- can be traced by drugs and surgery if caught early on
macular degeneration - correct answer ✔✔- most common cause of blindness in ppl over 60
