BBH 315 Exam 3 Questions With Complete Solutions

physical/cognitive changes in midlife/older age correct answer: skin wrinkles, spots hair thins/grays height decreases fat increases muscle mass, strength, decrease vision,hearing decline sleep problems social relationships linked to health correct answer: children in intact families married couples older adults with support they can count on coping capacity and social support marital dysfunction may cause stress that disregulates would healing, etc. trends in age at first marriage by education and ethnicity correct answer: rates have decreased in all groups have declined in all ethnicities (whites highest marriage, hispanic, black) college education=more marriages median ages for first marriages have increased 20-26 for women, 22 to 28 for men trends in labor force participation rates correct answer: decreased for men and increased for women hispanics have highest participation, followed by asians and whites most populated groups are 20-24 years and 25-54 yrs biggest decrease from 65+ trends in gender gap in earnings correct answer: older you are, bigger the gap women earn 82 cents for every 1$ male college grad reasons for gender gap in earnings correct answer: unpaid work, hosehold chores, caretakers unpaid work at home related to health in midlife and older age correct answer: largest gender difference in division of labor occurs in married people -having kids -differences in common chores selected -differences in same sex couples caregiving correct answer: mainly women many feel personal satisfaction for providing care but up to 50% meet criteria for major depression second shift phenomenon correct answer: added stress women have when spend more time on household chores than men unpaid housework tumor correct answer: abnormal tissue growth neoplasia correct answer: new abnormal growth benign tumor correct answer: non cancerous localized so no spread malignant tumor correct answer: cancerous can invade distant tissues (metastasis) sex differences in cancer diagnoses and deaths correct answer: women: breast, cervis, liver stomach, thyroid male: prostate, lung, liver, stomach gender & developing/surviving cancer correct answer: men are more prone to develop cancer worse overall survival, higher mortality most common cancers/deaths by gender correct answer: males: prostate,lung, colorectal female: breast, lung, colorectal deaths in male: lung, prostate, colorectal death in female: lung, breast, colorectal risk factors for breast cancer in women and men correct answer: younger age for first period early menopause older age at birth of first child never giving birth or breastfeeding family history