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The growth in the number of older people in this country has been the
major cause of increases in health care costs.
True  
False  

 
Aging is a period of inevitable decline, chronic illness and loss of
meaningful roles.
TRUE  
FALSE  

 
Older individuals do not rapidly forget what they learned but rather
take longer to learn new information
True  
False  

 
The memory changes that occur with age differ from those seen in early
stages of Alzheimer's.
True  
False  

 
Research into the neurobiological and neuropsychological components of
both healthy old age and age associated neurological illnesses have
important implications for future findings.
True  
False  

 
Age-related changes in memory are thoroughly documented and understood.
True  
False  

 
When asked about particulars of earlier experiences, older adults report
more details than do young adults
True  
False  

 
Older adults have increased word-finding problems.
True  
False  

 
The knowledge and long-term memory necessary to enable the species to
survive is in our genetic code.
True  
False  

 
The cognitive revolution in psychology involved the formal definition of
humans as information processing systems (IPSs).
True  
False  

 
Knowledge has three interrelated features - acquired information,
activated in a timely fashion, and generating an appropriate response.
True  
False  

 
Speed of knowledge processing is not a critical variable in the aging
process.
True  
False  

 
Retrieval of knowledge does not tend to slow the more information is
related to a given item.
True  
False  

 
Knowledge can compensate at least partially for age-related declines in
cognitive efficiency.
True  
False  

 
Age appears to bring advantages in emotional management.
True  
False  

 
The kinds of pervasive losses that one sees in other domains of
psychological functioning in old age are clearly not present in the
realm of emotion.
True  
False  

 
Self-determination theory (SDT) identifies three basic psychological
needs as autonomy, competence and relatedness.
True  
False  

 
Dealing with the feeling of powerlessness is not essential to fighting
the loss of girl’s authentic selves.
True  
False  

 
Daily experiences in autonomy and competence do not predict fluctuations
in well being outcome
True  
False  

 
Recent evidence suggests attainment of extrinsic goals enhance outcomes
True  
False  

 
The goals, values and lifestyles fostered by a culture or subculture can
be either disabling or enhancing with respect to actually fulfilling
basic needs
True  
False  

 
Age-related declines in social network size and in the frequency of
social interaction result from a process of selective investment that
offers the greatest emotional awards.
True  
False  

 
Unlike older adults, younger people with terminal illnesses do not
experience a decline in social networks and interactions.
True  
False  

 
Social relationships and patterns of social interaction in later
adulthood reflect dual themes of selectivity and compensation.
True  
False  

 
Behavioral medicine models of disease and recovery are specific to the
disease in question; in. contrast, models on aging are broader and focus
on numerous systems and diseases
True  
False  

 
The aging revolution is largely due to better health status of
increasingly older people spread evenly around the world.
True  
False  

 
Health psychology research has better measures of health than disease.
True  
False  

 
The psychology of aging and health has a strong research base and it is
now commonplace to ask the right questions about how health and disease
status interact with normal aging.
True  
False  

 
Suicide rates for people over age 65 are not as high as other groups.
True  
False  

 
Depressed patients are similar to or worse off than are patients with
medical problems.
True  
False