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In the Terman study of gifted children, which childhood personality quality was likely to predict a long life? |
| | A) | cheerfulness |
| | B) | self-confidence |
| | C) | conscientiousness |
| | D) | sociability |
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The strongest predictor of moods and mood disorders throughout life is |
| | A) | gender. |
| | B) | income. |
| | C) | personality. |
| | D) | age. |
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Which of the following statements represents an individual in Erikson's eighth stage of psychosocial development, which occurs in old age? |
| | A) | "Maybe I haven't been the best person in the world, but I've helped make the world a bit better and hope I've set a good example for my kids." |
| | B) | "Now that I've finally figured out who I am, I'd really like to share that with someone else." |
| | C) | "Who am I and where am I going?" |
| | D) | "I can make the world a better place by improving health care for the young and the elderly and by mentoring others in the hopes they will do the same." |
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Rosalyn's cognitive and physical abilities are declining, yet her daughter encourages Rosalyn to do as much as possible considering her constraints. This is consistent with which theory of adjustment in old age? |
| | A) | selective optimization with compensation |
| | B) | continuity theory |
| | C) | disengagement theory |
| | D) | activity theory |
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Of the following adults who are in their late 50s, who is LEAST likely to continue working after age 65? |
| | A) | Paul, who has a Ph.D. in physics |
| | B) | Mary, who is in excellent health |
| | C) | Peter, whose work is challenging but not stressful |
| | D) | Mike, who likes to take it easy when he is not working |
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Ruth lives in a house with eight other elderly residents where there are at least two caregivers present at all times and a nurse is on call 24 hours a day. Ruth shares a bedroom with another woman and gets help with bathing, dressing, and taking her medications. Ruth lives in |
| | A) | a board and care facility. |
| | B) | a foster care home. |
| | C) | an assisted living facility. |
| | D) | congregate housing. |
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Now that she is getting older, Maggie chooses not to spend time with people who upset her. She'd rather spend her limited energy with people she likes. Maggie is showing |
| | A) | disengagement. |
| | B) | socioemotional selectivity. |
| | C) | neuroticism. |
| | D) | ambiguous compensation. |
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In one major longitudinal study, socially isolated men were more likely than those with wider social networks to |
| | A) | get remarried. |
| | B) | find new friends. |
| | C) | die. |
| | D) | move in with their children. |
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Compared to multigenerational households in the past, those in the United States today are more likely to |
| | A) | be limited to two or, at most, three generations. |
| | B) | be dominated by the older generation. |
| | C) | include more generations. |
| | D) | focus on the youngest members. |
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Research exploring late-life relationships suggests that |
| | A) | married couples who are still together in later life express less satisfaction than earlier in their marriage. |
| | B) | older homosexual couples rarely experience discrimination or strained relationships with family members. |
| | C) | never-married older people are less likely than those who are divorced or widowed people to feel lonely. |
| | D) | in late-life remarriages, women tend to be more satisfied than men. |
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For married men, _____ seems to have health benefits; for married women, _____ is linked to health benefits. |
| | A) | the quality of the marriage; the length of the marriage |
| | B) | marriage itself; the quality of the marriage |
| | C) | the length of the marriage; marriage itself |
| | D) | the quality of the marriage; marriage itself |
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The stresses of caring for a spouse who becomes seriously ill or disabled can |
| | A) | strain a marriage. |
| | B) | aggravate the patient's illness. |
| | C) | do all of these. |
| | D) | make the caregiver ill. |
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Of U.S. older adults who have adult children, the majority see or talk to their adult children |
| | A) | daily. |
| | B) | only when a family crisis makes it necessary. |
| | C) | a few times a year. |
| | D) | once a week. |
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Which of the following pairs of siblings are likely to be the closest to one another? |
| | A) | brothers Ray, 86, and Charles, 67, who live in neighboring states |
| | B) | sisters Sherrill, 72, and Leah, 74, who live in the same apartment building |
| | C) | brothers Earl, 78, who lives in Chicago, and Emmett, 85, who lives in a nursing home in Seattle because of his Alzheimer's disease |
| | D) | brother Don, 75, who lives in California, and sister, Darlene, 63, who lives in Alabama |
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Great-grandparents tend to |
| | A) | have the most intimate connections with their great-grandchildren who live farthest away. |
| | B) | be more involved than grandparents in a child's life. |
| | C) | lose touch with their great-grandchildren's parents and grandparents. |
| | D) | find the role fulfilling. |
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