Misc Textbook Pt. 3 Chap 12-14

Question 1

What does g stand for in intelligence?

Answer 1

General intelligence - presented as IQ score

Question 2

What are Sternberg’s three forms of intelligence?

Answer 2

Analytic, Creative, and Practical

Question 3

What Sternberg form of intelligence is generally needed more in later life?

Answer 3

Practical intelligence

Question 4

What is selective optimization?

Answer 4

An adult process where optimization happens by selecting what to become more proficient in and what to give up.

Question 5

What are the four components of being an expert?

Answer 5

1. Intuition
2. Automation
3. Strategy
4. Flexibility

Question 6

What are two studied advantages of marriage for men?

Answer 6

Men’s salary were higher and they had more comfortable homes (on average)

Question 7

What is a LAT couple?

Answer 7

Living apart together, they are a functioning committed couple with two different homes

Question 8

What general trend is associated with empty nesting?

Answer 8

Relationships improve

Question 9

What do psychologists recommend to divorced parents who do not love each other?

Answer 9

Shared physical custody of children

Question 10

When do parents of both genders generally reduce workload?

Answer 10

Mothers during infancy, and fathers during elementary years

Question 11

What is an open adoption?

Answer 11

Birth parents decide to connect to the child but cannot have the child live with them

Question 12

What risk is associated with a lot of child institutionalization before adoption?

Answer 12

Reactive Attachment Disorder - failure to make meaningful relationships

Question 13

What is the gender difference in parental separation?

Answer 13

Mothers usually remain attached, fathers do not

Question 14

What is the main motivation for foster parents?

Answer 14

Generativity impulse

Question 15

How old is the average child entering the foster system?

Answer 15

6

Question 16

What were the result of the study with women living with grandparents for child care?

Answer 16

Children, mothers, and grandmothers were overall less satisfied

Question 17

Are grandmothers or fathers feeling more responsible for grandchildren/children?

Answer 17

Grandmothers

Question 18

What is a kinkeeper?

Answer 18

Someone who is the gatherer and communicator for the whole family

Question 19

What is the DSM-5 definition of insomnia?

Answer 19

Distress with sleep

Question 20

What is the term currently used for “senility”

Answer 20

Mild Neurocognitive Disorder

Question 21

What is the main symptom of AD

Answer 21

Alzheimer’s presents with severe and worsening memory loss

Question 22

What physically is found in the brain with Alzheimer’s patients?

Answer 22

Plaques and Tangles in the cerebral cortex

Question 23

What is the second most common cause of neurological disorder in the elderly?

Answer 23

Vascular Disease (stroke result)W

Question 24

What is the common symptom pattern of frontotemporal NCDs?

Answer 24

Emotional and personality changes

Question 25

What is the most common elderly disorder dealing with impaired motor control?

Answer 25

Parkinson’s Disease

Question 26

What common emotional disorder can be mistaken for a NCD?

Answer 26

Depression

Question 27

What is polypharmacy? What is a potential effect of it?

Answer 27

It is when numerous drugs are prescribed to the same person, and the mixture side effects can imitate dementia

Question 28

What is ecological validity?

Answer 28

Measuring brain performance is potentially more accurate as it happens versus in a laboratory setting

Question 29

What does Maslow define as self-actualization?

Answer 29

When a person becomes their true self and moves past selfishness

Question 30

How does a life review effect the cognition of an elderly person?

Answer 30

It is almost always positive