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Gerontology Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Aging - The process of becoming old Aged - The state of being old Aging begins when development ends Life Span - When you are born to where you are now Max human life span: 120 years Life Course - Perspective shows people how/why theyre aging ...

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Aging - ✔✔The process of becoming old


Aged - ✔✔The state of being old


Aging begins when development ends


Life Span - ✔✔When you are born to where you are now


Max human life span: 120 years


Life Course - ✔✔Perspective shows people how/why theyre aging the way they are


Ageism - ✔✔First stereotypes where we assume certain stereotypes for all population; Prejudice


Chronological Age - ✔✔Actual age


Older Adults - ✔✔Young old (65-74), Middle old (75-84), Oldest old (85+)


Biological Age - ✔✔Biological indicators; disease, genetics, biological factors, dietary factors


Functional Age - ✔✔Abilities, landmarks and losses, ability to do what needs to be done in everyday life


Behavioral/Mental Age - ✔✔Experience


Social Age - ✔✔Age norms, age stratification, age grading, age assignment


Period - ✔✔Range of calendar dates


Cohort - ✔✔Group of people born during a specified period


Whats happening the the world during the specific time and how they experience it.


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,Generation X= '65-'80


Baby Boomers='46-'64


Familial Generation - ✔✔Multi-generational household, 3+ generations in a household


Social Generation - ✔✔Group of people of specific age, different than their parents. (within cohort)


Historic Past - ✔✔Happened before one was born (Biological legacy; cocial/culture legacies)


Life Past - ✔✔(Direct or Indirect)


Actually during lifetime


Immediate Past - ✔✔Minutes/Hours/Days/Months right before the present.


Time is relative.


Present - ✔✔The right now (Direct or Indirect)


Experience venue (Place)


Present vs. Immediate past and immediate future


Experience vs. Memory


Immediate Future - ✔✔Individually defined


Life Span - ✔✔Individual life span (when you die)


Expected life span


Maximum life span (120 years)


Life Course - ✔✔Persons life in context


Phenomenon - ✔✔Something at is



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, Process - ✔✔Something that does


Perspective - ✔✔Helps us explain


Trajectory/Life Path - ✔✔The way you experience life


Exogenous Factors - ✔✔External factors


Endogenous Factors - ✔✔Internal factors


Events - ✔✔Happenings


Transitions - ✔✔Changes in state of existance


Experiences - ✔✔Direct personal


Indirect personal - happens to someone close to you


In direct impersonal - not to you/someone you know


Experience Filters - ✔✔How we experience something is based on....


Venue complexity


Personality


Culture/Traditions


Habits


Social forces


Time


Memory


Sensory Memory - ✔✔Decay in a second or less



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