Chapter 12 Review Questions

T/F   In our society, young people are not considered adults until they are at least 21 years of age.

T/F   Adulthood can be subdivided into at least 3 different periods.

T/F   In early adulthood, most people take on adult responsibilities of career, marriage and children.

T/F   Without mutual respect, a marriage has little chance of success.

T/F   Among the majority of couples today, both partners work outside the home.

T/F   About 75% of all divorced fathers provide support for their children.

T/F   Most young adult women focus mostly on career development than on other matters.

T/F   In our society, even though the majority of women work outside the home, they still take care of most of the family obligations and child rearing responsibilities.

T/F   The progression to midlife is, for the most part, uneventful and has a smooth transition.

Midlife adulthood arrives at roughly the age of:

(a) 35

(b) 40

(c) 45

(d) 50

People generally start to question the meaning and purpose of their lives when they enter

(a)  early adulthood

(b)  adulthood

(c)  middle adulthood

(d)  late adulthood

T/F   Everyone experiences a midlife crisis when they reach the age of 40 years.

T/F   During middle adulthood, it is common that men and women explore reverse roles.

In early adulthood the “typical” male

(a)  focuses more on career

(b)  feels a sense of urgency

(c)  becomes more expressive

(d)  becomes less assertive

Women became more assertive in

(a)  early adulthood

(b)  middle adulthood

(c)  late adulthood

(d)  old age

T/F   The empty nest period is experienced only by women.

Most often, women who experiences the empty nest syndrome have all the following except

(a)  they have led rather restricted lives

(b)  they have had large families

(c)  they lack intimate contacts outside the home

(d)  they have few interests of their own

T/F   Only women experience transitional upsets during late middle adulthood.

T/F   Menopause is fundamentally a hormonal and biological change for women whereas “menopause” for men is more emotional.

T/F   As our quality of life increases, the lifespan of humans will continue to be extended indefinitely.

One often-neglected consideration of the older adult is declining

(a)  social contact

(b)  nutrition

(c)  intelligence

(d)  memory

T/F   By about the age of 75, the brain has shrunk to about 50% its early adulthood size.

T/F  Old age always coincides with a declining intellectual ability.

T/F   Senility is a term that denotes diminished mental faculties.

T/F   “Dementia” refers to a reduction in mental ability.

Two major disease processes that are associated with late adulthood are

(a)  skin cancer and arthritis

(b)  osteoporosis and intestinal problems

(b)  declining sight  and spinal stenosis

(c)  cerebral arteriosclerosis and Alzheimer’s

Issues that people in late adulthood face include all the following except

(a)  isolation and loneliness

(b)  retirement

(c)  bereavement

(d)  child rearing

T/F   Arteriosclerosis is commonly referred to as “hardening of the arteries”.

T/F   There is no cure for Alzheimer’s but there are various forms of treatment.

Thanatology is the study of

(a)  old age

(b)  dying

(c)   mental ability

(d)  stress mechanisms

T/F   Today in American psychology “death” is a “nontopic” of study.

 “Death” many times is an avoided topic of discussion because of all the following except?

(a)   we face the ultimate “unknown”

(b)   we ourselves have never experienced it

(c)   “Death” is accepted as a natural part of life in our society

(d)   In our society “death” is associated with fear and pain

Terminally ill people most afraid of all the following except

(a)  loss of mastery over themselves

(b)  separation from loved one

(c)  being replaced by another

(d)  fear of death itself

Kubler-Ross’s stages of dying maintains that the first stage is

(a)  anger

(b)  denial

(c)  bargaining

(d)  depression