GERONTOLOGY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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GERONTOLOGY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)GERONTOLOGY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)GERONTOLOGY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)GERONTOLOGY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDAT...
GERONTOLOGY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Although cultural stereotypes suggest that women are more biologically
fragile than men, the Gompertz law indicates that women and men are
equally likely to die.
A) True
B) False - ANS ✓B) False
The concepts of morbidity and disability can be used interchangeably—
they mean the same thing when considering the compression of morbidity
hypothesis.
A) True
B) False - ANS ✓B) False
International research on health trends in later life provides consistent
results across countries.
A) True
B) False - ANS ✓B) False
Fluid intelligence refers to:
A) Intelligence accumulated from past experience and socialization
B) Intelligence that is measured on a verbal and a performance scale
C) Pragmatic or social judgment
D) Intelligence applied to new tasks or the ability to come up with novel or
creative solutions to unforeseen problems
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E) None of the above - ANS ✓D) Intelligence applied to new tasks or the ability
to come up with novel or creative solutions to unforeseen problems
Cross-sectional studies of intelligence may reveal differences between
young and old people that do not arise from age, but from characteristics of
different cohorts, including which of the following?
A) Young people are more familiar than old people with test taking.
B) Old people show more test anxiety than young people.
C) Some old people accept the prejudices of ageism and believe that
intelligence declines with age.
D) Young people are less cautious than old people and may be more likely
to guess at the answer on tests of intelligence.
E) All of the above - ANS ✓E) All of the above
As a group, older people take longer than younger people to learn new
things.
A) True
B) False - ANS ✓A) True
The Seattle Longitudinal Study and other research on cognitive function
found that the largest average declines in intelligence come after age 60,
but that intellectual decline in later life may be reversed.
A) True
B) False - ANS ✓A) True
Which of the following is the most prevalent chronic disease of old age?
A) Arthritis
B) Osteoporosis
C) Parkinson's disease
D) Cancer
E) Cardiovascular disease - ANS ✓A) Arthritis
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The lowest rate of suicide in the United States occurs among which of the
following groups?
A) Younger black men
B) Older black men
C) Young white men
D) Older white men
E) None of the above - ANS ✓E) None of the above
A multidimensional functional assessment involves which of the following?
A) A thorough physical exam
B) A full examination of physical, mental, and social conditions
C) An older adult's economic and social resources
D) Both A and C
E) Both B and C - ANS ✓E) Both B and C
Dementia is characteristic of normal aging.
A) True
B) False - ANS ✓B) False
"Managed care" refers to which of the following?
A) Age-based rationing of health care to control costs
B) Hiring managers to oversee health care providers in various hospital
departments to control utilization of services
C) Combining insurance with health care providers and facilities in a
unified network to control costs
D) Avoiding unneeded care or treatment that prolongs dying
E) Using cost-benefit analysis to select the most cost effective treatment
options - ANS ✓C) Combining insurance with health care providers and facilities
in a unified network to control costs
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