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Hooyman: Social Gerontology: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, 7e

Chapter 1

Multiple Choice

This activity contains 10 questions.

Changes that occur in cognitive functioning and personality are a reflection of:

chronological agepsychological agingbiological agingsocial aging

Which of the following topics are social gerontologists least likely to study?

family structureseconomics of aginghousing for the elderlybiological aspects of aging

Learning about the aging process can aid people in:

understanding the aging of friends and familyadapting to their own agingall of the answers are correctnone of the answers are correctreducing fears about aging

Over the past twenty years, sex differences in life expectancy have:

increased, with men living longerremained constantdeclined but women still live longerincreased, with women living much longer

The major limitation of cross-sectional studies of aging occurs when:

it can not separate the effects of events extraneous to the study that influence people's responses in a particular measurement period. differences among younger and older respondents are erroneously attributed to growing old. attrition, or dropping out of the study, due to death, illness, loss of interest or frustration with poor performance occurs. repeated measurement with the same test improves the test-taker's performance because of familiarity with the test.

All of the following are characteristics of senescence EXCEPT:

It happens quickly throughout the body.It increases vulnerability to disease.It starts after age 30.It reflects normal declines in all organ systems.

It is a fallacy to assume that the changing elderly dependency ratios will result in increased burdens on younger people because:

fewer women are entering the labor forcemore people are working into advanced old agethose under age 16 are the largest "dependent" groupthe dependency ratio has not changed since 1910

Among the oldest-old, the majority live in:

their own home, generally alonenursing homestheir own home with a spouseadult family homes

Who are the old-old?

85 and older75-8465 and younger65-74

Seventy percent of the oldest-old are

Native AmericanswomenMenAfrican American males

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