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PSY120 Topic 9: Late Adulthood Quiz 2023
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PSY120
Topic 9: Late Adulthood
Started on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 1:12 PM
State Finished
Completed on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 1:48 PM
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Grade 120.00 out of 125.00 (96%)
Question 1
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Which of the following statements is true of Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs's need for efficacy?
Select one:a. This need refers to the fact that present events draw meaning from their connection with future
events.
b. This need can lend a sense of goodness or positive characterization of life and justify certain
courses of action.
c. This need involves the belief that one can make a difference.
d. This need implies that most individuals want to be good, worthy individuals.
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_____ was the main cause of death in the United States until the middle of the 20th century.
Select one:
a. Infectious disease
b. Accident
c. Chronic disease
d. Homicide
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Crystallized intelligence is
Select one:
a. an individual's ability to reason abstractly.
b. an individual's accumulated information and verbal skills.
c. an individual's ability to think hypothetically.
d. an individual's ability to use deductive reasoning.
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James is in his mid-40s and has little time to exercise as he runs a business. However, he
knows that he should focus more on his health, eat healthy meals at regular intervals, and exercise
as often as he can. One of the age-related conditions that James is most likely to face at his age is
Select one:
a. increased strength in his upper arms.
b. sensitivity to high-pitched sounds.
c. joint stiffness.
d. decreased bladder control.
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Compared with middle age, which of the following best describes late middle age for many
individuals?
Select one:
a. Health problems start to decline.
b. Losses may begin to outnumber gains.
c. Life changes decrease; the path is relatively fixed.
d. Losses and gains even out.
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Which of the following statements is true of sibling relationships?
Select one:
a. Siblings who were psychologically distant from each other in childhood tend to be close in
adulthood.
b. The majority of sibling relationships in adulthood are apathetic.
c. Sibling relationships rarely persist over the entire life span for most adults.
d. It is rare for sibling closeness to develop for the first time in adulthood.
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A recent study by Specht, Egloff, and Schukle found that _____ showed a continuous increase from
early adulthood to late adulthood.
Select one:
a. agreeableness
b. extraversion
c. conscientiousness
d. openness
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According to Levinson, the transition from dependence to independence is marked by theSelect one:
a. realization of a goal.
b. testing of a dream.
c. free experimentation of a dream.
d. formation of a dream.
Question 9
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Which of the following Big Five personality factors describes a person as either disciplined or
impulsive?
Select one:
a. openness to experience
b. conscientiousness
c. neuroticism
d. agreeableness
Question 10
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Over which of the following aspects of life do middle-aged adults feel they have the least control?
Select one:
a. finances
b. sex life
c. work
d. marriage
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A recent meta-analysis of seven studies concluded that dietary intakes (not vitamin supplements) of
vitamin E, C, and beta-carotene were linked to a reduced risk of _____ disease.
Select one:
a. Alzheimer
b. kidney
c. cardiovascular
d. Parkinson
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Tasha is 68 years old. A change in her eating behavior over the yea rs has led to harmful weight
loss. Which of the following has most likely contributed to her weight loss?
Select one:
a. decrease in the use of protein supplements
b. use of calorie supplements between meals
c. decrease in snacking between meals
d. use of taste enhancers between meals
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Lydia has been diagnosed with early macular degeneration. Which of the following treatments is her
doctor most likely to recommend?
Select one:
a. eye drops
b. removal of the lens of her eye
c. prescription for glasses
d. laser surgery
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Among ethnic groups in the United States, _____ have high death rates for stroke, heart disease,
lung cancer, and female breast cancer.
Select one:
a. African Americans
b. Asian Americans
c. Latinos
d. Non-Latino Whites
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If born today in the United States, which of the following persons would have the highest life
expectancy?
Select one:
a. Jerome who is an African American male
b. Larry who is a non-Latino White malec. Miranda who is an African American female
d. Susanna who is a Latino female
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A study reported by Lachman and others (2010) revealed that older adults with less education had
________ than those with more education.
Select one:
a. lower interpersonal skills
b. lower cognitive abilities
c. higher incidence of mental disorders
d. higher distractibility
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A common memory problem for older adults is ________, in which individuals cannot quite retrieve
familiar information but have the feeling that they should be able to retrieve it.
Select one:
a. dementia
b. the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
c. temporary memory loss
d. mental block
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Older adults have more difficulty determining the time required to step on the brakes when a traffic
light suddenly turns red. This is because they have
Select one:
a. a decline in explicit memory.
b. slower perceptual speed.
c. inferior semantic memory.
d. lost the ability to use their episodic memory.
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Michael's mother always forgets to take her heart medication. So, every night Michael calls her after
dinner to remind her about her medicines. This demonstrates that Michael's mother is experiencing a
decline in ________ memory.
Select one:
a. source
b. episodic
c. prospective
d. implicit
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Question textWhich of the following is a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat
Alzheimer disease?
Select one:
a. Ritalin
b. L-dopa
c. Crocin
d. Aricept
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A cross-sectional study by Ursula Staudinger found that for participants from 85 to 105 years old,
_____ became the most important personal investment.
Select one:
a. work
b. health
c. family
d. friends
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According to Erikson, which of the following stages of development do es an individual experience in
toddlerhood?
Select one:
a. autonomy vs. shame
b. industry vs. inferiority
c. basic trust vs. mistrustd. intimacy vs. isolation
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Sara is 17 years old. After being confused about her sexual orientation for a long time, Sara is finally
able to identify herself as bisexual. According to Erikson's psychosocial theory, which of the following
is most likely to be true of Sara when she reaches old age?
Select one:
a. She will have a strong sense of humor.
b. She will believe that heterosexual relationships are immoral.
c. She will appreciate the complexity of life.
d. She will develop a sense of inferiority.
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Kendall was a kind and empathetic woman who actively participated in fund-raising events for
charity organizations even when she was 87 years old. During her middle adulthood, she began
caring for others and empathizing with people who were socially disadvantaged. Which of the
following psychosocial conflicts did Kendall most likely experience that resulted in the resolution
mentioned in the scenario?
Select one:
a. generativity vs. stagnation
b. autonomy vs. shame
c. industry vs. inferiority
d. initiative vs. guilt
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A cross-sectional study by Ursula Staudinger found that for adults from 55 to 65 years of age, _____
became most important in terms of personal investment.
Select one:
a. work
b. independence
c. family
d. friends [Show Less]