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Gerontology Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers 100% Pass Gerontology is - the scientific study of old age The Gerontology Society of America defines Gerontology as - the study of gaining processes and individuals across the life course. Chronological Age - -Based on years from birth -Diff...

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Gerontology is - ✔✔the scientific study of old age


The Gerontology Society of America defines Gerontology as - ✔✔the study of gaining processes and

individuals across the life course.


Chronological Age - ✔✔-Based on years from birth


-Differ according to culture and type of society


-Developed countries (65 year & Older) Developing (60, 55)


Functional (Biological) Age - ✔✔-Physical changes that decrease efficiency of organ systems


-No longer perform the major roles of adulthood; Physical state as it ages


Subjective (Psychological) Age - ✔✔-Changes that occur in personality and how one feels/identifies

oneself as


-You are as young as you feel


Social Age - ✔✔-Society's expectations of how people should act as they grow older


-Individual's social roles & relationships


-Social roles and positions such as widow, grandparents, retiree


-Status of an person in a given society


One theory which seeks to explain why inequality increases with age is the - ✔✔Cumulative

disadvantage theory


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, Transitions are produced by - ✔✔other's role changes


Age grades are ways of using age as a ____ to group people by status - ✔✔social category


According to economist Dr. Steven Sass (2016), ____ seem far more important than non-financial costs -

both in keeping some workers in the labor force and drawing others into retirement. - ✔✔non-financial

benefits


Older workers with higher levels of educational attainment stay in the workforce full-time for ____ than

do those with lower levels of educational attainment. - ✔✔more years


In a longitudinal study, almost half of participants (____) said they are very satisfied and another 41%

said they are moderately satisfied in retirement. However, over the course of 15 years, there has been a

decrease in the proportion of those indicating that they are very satisfied. - ✔✔49%


In defined-benefit pension plans, employers... - ✔✔set up and contribute to retirement accounts for their

employees, promising pension payments throughout their retiree's lifetime


Ageism is - ✔✔Discrimination based on age


Ageism has three levels of manifestation: - ✔✔institutional, interpersonal and self-directed


Ageism has two forms of expression: - ✔✔explicit (conscious) and implicit (unconscious)


If age integration means that we no longer have to have our activities defined by age, then older people

___ participate more fully in all aspects of life and people can cut back on paid work whenever their

family demands are greatest. - ✔✔can


The disengagement theory developed by Cummings and Henry states that... - ✔✔normal aging involves

a natural and inevitable withdrawal from people in the social system


A theory is... - ✔✔a broad explanation that provides the structure for organizing and interpreting

multiple observable facts and their relationship to one another

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