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Question #1
Your grandmother is still very active and loves to get her friends together for bridge on Friday. They always talk about all those old-old people down at the senior center who like to play bingo. About how old are the old-old senior citizens to whom they are referring?
A.
67
B.
85
C.
72
D.
75
Question #2
What causes some caretakers to abuse their elderly charges?
A.
Job satisfaction
B.
Depression
C.
Pride
D.
Lack of emotional attachment
Question #3
A symbolic interactionist may choose to study senior centers, and other groups of elderly people. Which theory might they find most useful for their study?
A.
Age stratification theory
B.
Subculture of aging theory
C.
Selective optimization with compensation theory
D.
Gerotranscendence
Question #4
When elderly people are considered elders and leaders of a group of people, they are functioning under a(n):
A.
Gerontocracy
B.
Meritocracy
C.
Oligarchy
D.
Republic
Question #5
Supercentenarians are people who are ____ and older.
A.
105
B.
101
C.
110
D.
100
Question #6
Which of the following is NOT true about old age?
A.
Women notice wrinkles as one of the first signs of aging.
B.
Elderly people lose all appetite and drive for sex.
C.
Elderly men sometimes start to go bald as they age.
D.
Elderly people start dying their hair to replace the color they lose.
Question #7
While visiting your dad at his nursing home, you see an elderly lady sitting at the table with a full tray of food in front of her. She is in a wheel chair and seems depressed. You conclude that she is experiencing:
A.
Primary aging
B.
Secondary aging
C.
Quaternary aging
D.
Tertiary aging
Question #8
What is a dependency ratio?
A.
It is the comparison of children to parents.
B.
It is the comparison of grandparents to parents.
C.
It is the comparison of healthcare professionals to the elderly.
D.
It is the comparison of working people to non-working people.
Question #9
What is the basic idea behind disengagement theory?
A.
As people age, they generally withdraw from all forms of society.
B.
As people age, they begin to lose their friends and family and spend their last days mourning their losses.
C.
As people age, they disengage with their friends in order to spend more time with their families.
D.
As people age, they think less and less about being married to their spouse, and more about their individuality.
Question #10
When your mother-in-law fell and broke her hip at age 72, you were concerned because she is still ________________.
A.
Middle-old
B.
Ancient
C.
Old-old
D.
Young-old
Question #11
How do elderly widows and widowers react to death of their significant other?
A.
Similarly: both elderly widows and widowers do not often remarry.
B.
Differently: elderly widows often do not remarry while elderly widowers do.
C.
Differently: elderly widows often remarry while elderly widowers do not.
D.
Similarly: both elderly widows and widowers often remarry.
Question #12
Sociologists have adopted the phrase, “the graying of the United States.” What does this phrase mean?
A.
The greatest part of the population is reaching the age of 65 and entering old age.
B.
With industrialization and the building of big cities, there is very little green nature left and everything is the color of steel.
C.
People are living under so much stress now, that they are going gray early.
D.
Gray is culturally considered beautiful and thus people are bleaching their hair.
Question #13
Accusing people of DWE (driving while elderly) is considered a type of:
A.
Ageism
B.
Functionalism
C.
Clairvoyance
D.
Behaviorism
Question #14
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s book On Death and Dying added much content knowledge to which field?
A.
Thanatology
B.
Teleology
C.
Metrology
D.
Ontology
Question #15
According to Erik Erikson’s theory on aging, what is the final hurdle that most people who reach old age must overcome?
A.
Concession
B.
Loathing
C.
Despair
D.
Sentimentality
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