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Gerontology Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Aging - Progressive changes during adult years, these changes are not necessarily negative nor do they reduce an individual's viability Gerontology - The study of the human aging process from maturity to old age, as well as the study of the olde...

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Aging - ✔✔Progressive changes during adult years, these changes are not necessarily negative nor do

they reduce an individual's viability


Gerontology - ✔✔The study of the human aging process from maturity to old age, as well as the study of

the older adult as a special population


Geriatrics - ✔✔The study of health and disease in later life


Concerned w/ the comprehensive health care of older people and the well-being of their caregivers


Senscence - ✔✔Mutations that may accumulate over time in certain genes in cells in the reproductive

system, on the other hand, describe age related loss of function


Ageism - ✔✔The prejudiced behavior of individuals and systems within the culture against older adults


Chronological aging - ✔✔Number of years since birth


Biological aging - ✔✔The changes reducing efficiency of organ systems


Psychological Aging - ✔✔Memory, learning, adaptive capacity, personality, and mental functioning


Social Aging - ✔✔Referring to social roles, relationships, and the overall social context in which we grow

old


Health technology - ✔✔Reduced infant mortality and prolonged adult life


Scientific technology - ✔✔Creating jobs that do not depend on skills and knowledge accumulated over

decades of experience



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, Gerontophilia - ✔✔1600 to 1800


Old age was exalted and venerated, sometimes hated and feared, but more often honored and obeyed


Gerontophobia - ✔✔1800 to present


Americans increasingly glorified youth instead of age, and older people often became victims of

prevailing attitudes and social arrangements


Stereotypes - ✔✔Generalized beliefs or opinions based on individual experience, often produced by

irrational thinking


Mortality salience - ✔✔Occurs when fear of death is high. To buffer this fear people identify more

strongly with their in-group


Negative aging stereotypes - ✔✔Illness, impotency, ugliness, mental decline, mental illness, uselessness,

isolation, poverty, depression


Biomedicalization of aging - ✔✔Growth of scientific inquiry and subsequent advances in medical

sciences. The belief that problems associated with aging are biological rather than social and behavioral


Compassionate stereotyping - ✔✔Olders adults are portrayed as disadvantaged on some level (

economic, social, psychological) in need and deserving of help by others


Positive stereotypes - ✔✔Generalized beliefs that categorize all older people in a favorable light


Negative stereotypes - ✔✔Categorize old people in demeaning ways


Self-concept - ✔✔The way in which people see themselves as being


Social construction of self - ✔✔The way we interpret events in our lives is partially a reflection of how we

are treated




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