1 .		__________ is the scientific study of aging.    a. ageism   b. gerontology   c. functionalism   d. demography
2 .		According to the __________ perspective, older people should detach themselves from their social roles and prepare for their eventual death.    a. functionalist   b. dependency ratio   c. interactionist   d. conflict
3 .		__________ perspectives on aging and inequality focus on the relationship between life satisfaction and levels of activity.    a. disengagement   b. functionalist   c. productive aging   d. interactionist
4 .		Usually thought of as prejudice and discrimination against the elderly, __________ victimizes both the very young and the very old.    a. gerontophobia   b. ageism   c. dementia   d. depersonalization
5 .		Some elderly people respond to the aging process with __________, the process of retreating from relationships, organizations, and society.    a. disengagement   b. senility   c. age consciousness   d. institutionalization
6 .		__________refers to the inequalities, differences, segregation, or conflict between age groups, which is often a determinant of how education, jobs, and other resources and opportunities are allocated.    a. ageism   b. age perception   c. age stratification   d. age discrimination
7 .		__________ theory maintains that as a society industrializes, the status of the elderly progressively declines.    a. Life course   b. Modernization   c. Cross-cultural   d. Longitudinal
8 .		A pension is __________ if it is the property of the employee rather than the company, allowing the employee to keep the accumulated funds in the plan even if he or she no longer works for the company.    a. vested   b. legitimate   c. equitable   d. nonvested
9 .		The behavior that is symptomatic of depersonalization is often attributed to __________, in an ageist attempt to claim that physiological deterioration accounts for seemingly psychotic behavior in nursing homes.    a. powerlessness   b. senility   c. heart disease   d. phobias
10 .		The increasing proportion of older women to older men, known as the __________, has important consequences for health care and medical costs because older women, on average, have a greater likelihood of being poor and having no spouse to take care of them.    a. graying of America   b. task-based approach   c. female dependency ratio   d. feminization of poverty