HDFS 3440 Exam 1questions & answers
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Biopsychosocial perspective (Biological) - correct answer ✔✔physical health, genetics, heart, lungs,
muscles, vision, hearing, digestion, weight, bones, joints, renal system, skin, hair, teeth, spectrum of
health and disease
Biopsychosocial perspective (Psychological) - correct answer ✔✔thoughts, feelings, personality, memory,
identity
Biopsychosocial perspective (Sociocultural) - correct answer ✔✔family, community, society, religion,
position in the world
Four principles of adult development - correct answer ✔✔1. changes are continuous over the lifespan
2. only survivors grow old
3. individuality matters
4. normal aging is different from disease
inter-individual - correct answer ✔✔differences: differences between people
intra-individual - correct answer ✔✔differences: difference in individual, different systems developing at
different speeds
biological age - correct answer ✔✔physical function
psychological age - correct answer ✔✔cognitive: intelligence/memory
social: roles in family, work, leisure, community
young old - correct answer ✔✔65-74
,old-old - correct answer ✔✔75-84
oldest-old - correct answer ✔✔85+
centenarians - correct answer ✔✔100 older
supercentenarians - correct answer ✔✔110+
personal aging - correct answer ✔✔individuals own development and change
social aging - correct answer ✔✔changing with or as result of environmental change
normative age-graded influence - correct answer ✔✔typical timeline of events for individuals in a
culture: getting married, school, retirement
normatice history-graded influence - correct answer ✔✔events that affect a society and impact lives
non-normative influences - correct answer ✔✔off-time development, catastrophic events
social factors influence individuals throughout the life span and affect education and work opportunities,
housing, health etc: - correct answer ✔✔race, gender, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion.
increasing aging population in 1900? - correct answer ✔✔65+ is 4% of population
3.1 million people
increasing aging population in 2009? - correct answer ✔✔65+ is 12.3%
40.2 million
baby boomers - correct answer ✔✔birth years 1946-64---ish, depending on the source
, new kind of old - correct answer ✔✔married later, better educated, more diverse families
life expectancy - correct answer ✔✔numbers of years a birth cohort will live
geographic variations - correct answer ✔✔see chart on page 16 to see % of 65+ by state
theory - correct answer ✔✔-set of ideas that explain or predict phenomena
-imperfect
-know a variety for application
-understand assumptions and limitations
-like lenses
organismic model - correct answer ✔✔nature derives development
-growth is a byproduct of genetics
-growth occurs in stages
mechanistic model - correct answer ✔✔nurture drives development
-growth is continuous
interactionist model, niche-picking - correct answer ✔✔genetics + environment = development
interactionist model, plasticity - correct answer ✔✔development changes in response to environmental
factors
disengagement theory - correct answer ✔✔-in normal aging, older adults sever social ties and roles
-retirement and isolation linked with well-being
-retirement and isolation are linked with well-being
-benefical to society: prevents sudden loss of members