PSYC 3123 CH 15 – Flashcards

According to psychologist Johan Denollet, insecurity, anxiety, and pessimism put people at risk for heart attacks. He refers to this behavior pattern as _____

When a person carries out multiple activities simultaneously, the person is engaging in _____

Psychoneuroimmunologists are experts in the study of the relationship among _____

This chronic condition is very common in middle age; if left untreated, it greatly increases the risk of strokes and heart disease.

People who are noncompetitive, patient, and lack aggression are classified as having a _______ behavior pattern.

The risk of breast cancer begins to grow around the age of _____

Organized bodies of information stored in memory, known as _______, help people represent the way the world is organized and allow them to categorize and interpret new information.

People's _______ serve to organize their behavior into coherent wholes and help them to interpret social events.

Alyssa has always been a crossword puzzle fan. In solving the puzzles, she uses the accumulation of information, skills, and strategies that she has learned through experience. This accumulation is called _______ intelligence.

According to _______ studies, adults tended to show fairly stable and even increasing intelligence scores until their mid-30s and even up to their 50s, at which point their scores begin to decline.

People with a great deal of expertise are not always very good at explaining how they arrived at their conclusions; their solutions just seem right to them. In fact, _____

Which statement about memory loss in middle age is true?

The acquisition of skill or knowledge in a particular area is called ________

Psychologist K. Warner Schaie found that certain abilities, such as inductive reasoning, spatial orientation, perceptual speed, and verbal memory, begin to decline gradually around age _____

By some estimates, as many as _______ of women have no significant symptoms of menopause.

Which of the following statements about osteoporosis is accurate?

Seventy-year-old Sue recently fell and fractured her arm. A bone scan revealed that Sue's bones have become brittle, fragile, and thin. Based on this information, it is reasonable to conclude that Sue most likely has _____

Fifty-year-old Kyle has become conscious of his posture as he attempts to compensate for the natural age-related _______ of the bones attached to his spinal column.

Paul is 50 years old and has worked around noisy machinery most of his adult life. He also shoots rifles as a hobby and does not always wear ear protection at the firing range. He now has some hearing loss, including a decrease in the ability to identify the direction and origin of a sound. This ability is known as _____

Men and women can reduce their risk of _______, a condition in which the bones become brittle, by maintaining a diet high in calcium and by exercising regularly.

The loss of near vision in middle age is referred to as _____

By age 80, about _____ of men have enlarged prostates.

Middle adulthood is defined as the period from approximately _______ years of age.

Around age 40, visual acuity typically begins to decline. What is visual acuity?

Research on women in non-Western cultures has found that women in India and in the Mayan culture look forward to menopause for several reasons. Which of the following is one of these?