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PSYC 306, ADULT DEVELOPMENT NAME: INSTRUCTOR: JACKSON PREPARING FOR REVIEW EXAM 2 CHAPTER 5: 1) Describe the concept of home sharing. Ans: Where two share a home in exchange for work done around the house like nannying, care-taker, etc. 2) Who created the Spokane Gatekeeper program and where did he work? Ans: Ray Raschko, Elderly Services 3) What is the main difference between a skilled care nursing facility and an assisted living center? Ans: Skilled care nursing facility is for patient that do not need long-term care meanwhile, assisted living care is for those looking for permanent assistance 4) What does it mean to reach “maximum performance potential” in Lawton’s Competence and Environmental Press Model? Ans: Little to no increase of environmental press increases performance 5-7) List three community-based services that are provided through the Older Americans Act of 1965. Ans: Homer Services, Meal Programs, Transportation 8) Medicare and Medicaid are provisions of the Ans: Social Security Act of 1935. 9) In the early 1900s, how did the family-based movement of providing long-term care differ from the religious movement of providing long term care? Ans: Old Age Assis? 10-13) List 4 services on the continuum of long term care Ans: Extended, Acute, Ambulatory, and Home Care 14) What are two things that were done in Kelly House for persons with dementia that are usually not done for persons with dementia in assisted living and skilled care facilities. Ans: Patient rooms were led to living area and was less confusing, and around the clock care. CHAPTER 6 15) What is selective attention and how does it change with age? Ans: A processes that allows individual select and focus on further processing, it changes by declining.
16) What is sustained attention and how does it change with age? Ans: Being able to focus on an activity over a long period of time and it changes and improves with age. 17) What is semantic memory and how does it change with age? Ans: Learning and remembering the meaning of words, it changes over time by declining. 18) What is episodic memory and how does it change with age? Ans: Conscious recollection, it changes by age in declining. 19) What are the effects of primary aging on semantic vs episodic long-term memory? Ans: Semantic, does through normal aging process but can change if knowledge is not used. Episodic, the older people perform worse than young adults. 20-22) What level of memory is initially affected by Alzheimer’s disease, and what level of memory is eventually affected by Alzheimer’s disease? Ans: Initially, the working memory. Eventually, Autobiographically 23-24) In general, what is the length and capacity of working memory vs the length and capacity of long-term memory? Ans: Working Memory, length is 20-40 secs, capacity is 7-3 chunks. Long term, length is lifetime, capacity is unlimted. CHAPTER 7 25-26) Describe two major differences between theories of intelligence from the early 1900s versus today? Ans: Intellectual activities in one vs. specific intelligences, intelligence with race related vs. environmental. 27) Provide one reason why the Army Alpha and Army Beta tests of intelligence initially showed a vast difference between the intelligence levels of younger and middle-aged men. Ans: Both were in school at a young age until one got in some trouble and left school to go homeless and reckless. 28-31) Provide two examples of tests used for the verbal part of the WAIS and two examples of tests used for the performance part of the WAIS. Ans: V: Information and Comprehension, P: Digit symbol and picture completion 32) Why might the Thurstone Primary Mental Abilities Test (TPMAT) show more favorable results for older adults than a test like the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)? Ans: TPMAT has shown that it has intellectual abilities that don’t drop till around 67 where as WAIS ests verbal and the performance 33-34) Cattell and Horn’s model represents a major shift in our understanding of general intelligence. Most of us now accept that there are at least two types of general (G) intelligence,
_____________________________________ and Ans: G Fluid and G Crystalized 35-37) List Sternberg’s formal term for each of the following types of intelligence:; Logical/mathematical intelligence: Componential Intelligence Creativity: Experiential Intelligence Wisdom: Contextual Intelligence 38-40) Describe three of Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences and what they mean: Ans: Interpersonal: The ability to understand others, Verbal: Capacity to use language to express what your thoughts are, Visual: The ability to present the special world in your mind 41-42) Describe two features of post formal thought: Ans: Logical and Moral 43) How does expertise differ from wisdom? Ans: Expertise is based on experience and I focused with knowledge, while wisdom comes from the capacity of rightly judging related to life. 44) Explain the “paradox of creativity”. Ans: Restrictions upon social system and government that creates tension that later turns to creativity. 45) List three of Baltes’ five criteria for wisdom Ans: Value Relativism, Lifespan Contextualism, Awareness and Management of Uncertainty
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