Development Of Older Adults

Question 1

What happens to our senses as we age

Answer 1

Some senses tend to decrease over time such as our visual and hearing ability

Question 2

Not contagious experiences mental and physical decline
No cure yet
Usually fatal loss of memory

Answer 2

Alzheimer’s disease

Question 3

Crystalized: knowledge accumulated over time
Increases in old age
Fluid : ability to reason quickly and abstractly Decreases at 75 slowly

Answer 3

Crystallized V fluid intelligence and how they change over time

Question 4

Mid life crisis

Marriage emptiness due to lack of children and things in common

Answer 4

Normal reactions to menopause, reaching middle age and having children move out of the home

Question 5

More happiness more sexual satisfaction and higher incomes

Answer 5

Effects of marriage on happiness

Question 6

Higher divorce rate

May not have the same views on marriage

Answer 6

Effects on cohabiting prior to marriage

Question 7

Cross sectional : take groups of different ages and compare them at one time period
Longitudinal : take one group of the same age test them several times over a period of their life and compare those results

Answer 7

Cross- sectional V. Longitudinal