Chapter 14 - Late Life Disorders

Question 1

Which of the following age ranges fits the label “old-old”?

Select one:

a. 65-74
b. 75-84
c. 85-94
d. 95+

Answer 1

b. 75-84

Question 2

Compared with young people, people over the age of 60 tend to

Select one:

a. experience less negative emotion.
b. report more somatic symptoms.
c. experience more negative emotion.
d. experience more physiological reactivity in response to emotionally charged topics.

Answer 2

a. experience less negative emotion.

Question 3

Which of the following statements is an example of a time-of-measurement effect?

Select one:

a. Today’s older adults are less likely to seek mental health services because when they were growing up, mental illness was stigmatized.
b. In a longitudinal study, many of the elderly subjects died before the follow-up data was collected.
c. Because of the effects of aging on the brain, older adults do worse than younger adults on measures of “fluid” intelligence.
d. Because exercise has become widely promoted in the media, many older adults are now exercising and thus are healthier than predicted by earlier measures of their physical well-being.

Answer 3

d. Because exercise has become widely promoted in the media, many older adults are now exercising and thus are healthier than predicted by earlier measures of their physical well-being.

Question 4

The course of dementia may be all of the following EXCEPT

Select one:

a. progressive.
b. static.
c. remitting.
d. all of the above.

Answer 4

d. all of the above.

Question 5

As the hippies of the 1960s reach old age, research may find increased drug abuse among older adults. This increase would be a(n)

Select one:

a. time-of-measurement effect.
b. age effect.
c. cohort effect.
d. longitudinal effect.

Answer 5

c. cohort effect

Question 6

Psychoactive drugs can be dangerous when used with the elderly because

Select one:

a. they are not tested on the elderly, only on young people.
b. side effects are more common.
c. toxicity is more of a problem.
d. all of the above.

Answer 6

d. all of the above.

Question 7

Impairment in which of the following areas is the most prominent symptom of dementia?

Select one:

a. judgment
b. language
c. memory
d. abstract thinking

Answer 7

c. memory

Question 8

Alzheimer’s disease is the result of

Select one:

a. low social and intellectual stimulation.
b. tangled abnormal protein filaments called neurofibrillary tangles.
c. age-based slowing of all bodily processes.
d. side-effects of long-term medication, such as anti-Parkinson’s medication.

Answer 8

b. tangled abnormal protein filaments called neurofibrillary tangles.

Question 9

Dementia with Lewy bodies can be divided into the following subtypes:

Select one:

a. occurring with Alzheimer’s or occurring without Alzheimer’s
b. occurring with Alzheimer’s or occurring with Parkinson’s
c. occurring with Parkinson’s and occurring without Parkinson’s
d. none of the above

Answer 9

c. occurring with Parkinson’s and occurring without Parkinson’s

Question 10

Stress following surgery is a common precipitant for the onset of

Select one:

a. Parkinson’s disease.
b. Alzheimer’s disease.
c. hydrocephalus.
d. delirium.

Answer 10

d. delirium