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Intro to Gerontology Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass the majority of people over the age of 65 are in good health - true what you do now (diet, exercise, stress, smoking, drinking, and other lifestyle factors) has a large impact on how well one ages - true stress can cause someone to exhi...

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the majority of people over the age of 65 are in good health - ✔✔true


what you do now (diet, exercise, stress, smoking, drinking, and other lifestyle factors) has a large impact

on how well one ages - ✔✔true


stress can cause someone to exhibit the traits of a person much older - ✔✔true


in the united states, more men survive to old age than women - ✔✔false


erikson described different late-life transitions for men and women as gender splitting - ✔✔false


some genes that code for late-life diseases (like alzhiemers or cancer) may have had positive benefits in

early life - ✔✔true


gerontologists study aging at an individual and population level - ✔✔true


personality change is a part of normal aging, just like gray hair and wrinkled skin - ✔✔false


job performance peaks in early adulthood, regardless of the profession - ✔✔false


antioxidants may help to slow the progression of alzheimers disease - ✔✔true


findings for the maas-kuypers study indicate that a positive personality is possible in spite of childhood

trauma - ✔✔true


lung cancer is the most common form of cancer among women - ✔✔false


sigmund freud believed that our psychological development is complete by the time we reach age 10 -

✔✔true


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, average life span varies across the world due to factors such as economic development - ✔✔true


ageism increases when society accepts negative stereotypes as true - ✔✔true


older adults had lower social status in the 1800s as compared to today - ✔✔true


detroit syndrome describes the practice of employers replacing older workers instead of retraining them -

✔✔true


the generation of americans born between 1946 and 1964 has been described as the baby boom generation

- ✔✔true


according to the norm of reciprocity, society expects us to maintain balance in many of our relationships -

✔✔true


ageism can oppress any age group, young or old - ✔✔true


gerontology is which of the following - ✔✔all of the above; the scientific study of aging, the study of the

elderly as a special population, multidisciplinary, a "new" field beginning in the 1950s


lifestyle, heredity (genetics), environment, and medical care are all factors that influence a person's

longevity. how much (%) can we attribute lifestyle and heredity to our longevity? - ✔✔50% lifestyle and

20% heredity


social security was first developed by otto von bismarck in this country - ✔✔germany


embracing the values of society, a behavioral pattern in young adulthood, is known as - ✔✔acculturation


in developed countries such as the united states, the legal definition of "old" is considered to be this age -

✔✔65


this documentary explores the experiences of living and working in a long term care facility (nursing

home and assisted living facility) - ✔✔"almost home"



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