Exam 16: Perceptual Organization

As people progress into late adulthood,________ feelings,supported by enhanced emotional control,and the amygdala shows diminishing activity in response to ________ events.

After living together for a year without any long-term commitment to their relationship,Sylvia and Yefim have decided to marry.Research on premarital cohabitation most strongly suggests that

It is expected that ________ people worldwide will be age 60 or older by 2100.

Compared with younger adults,older adults are ________ attentive to positive news and they have ________ problems in their social relationships.

The age at which people are expected to leave home,get a job,and marry has changed dramatically in Wallonia over the past 50 years.Developmentalists would say that the country's ________ has been altered.

There is very little relationship between the age of an adult and his or her

Judith is taking care of her aging parents but also provides support for her adult children.Judith can be described as

Older people are NOT increasingly susceptible to

Brain regions important to memory begin to atrophy as we age.This is best illustrated by the fact that the blood-brain barrier breaks down beginning in the

The aging brain partly compensates for a loss of brain cells by recruiting and reorganizing existing neural networks.This best illustrates

Physical exercise in later life promotes ________ in the hippocampus,a brain region that is important for memory.

A diminishing sense of smell and slowed or wobbly walking may foretell

A telomere is a region at the end of a(n)

Marie feels socially useful in her career as a financial investment adviser.Erik Erikson would have suggested that Marie experiences a sense of

As people progress through late adulthood,they typically experience a slight

A ________ of Americans say that love counts as a very important reason to marry and a ________ of Americans say that financial stability counts as a very important reason to marry.

As men progress through middle adulthood,they experience a ________ in sperm count and a ________ in testosterone level.

During the last few years,75-year-old Mrs.Yamaguchi has gradually become so mentally disoriented that she can't find her way around her own house and often fails to recognize her husband.It is most likely that Mrs.Yamaguchi is suffering the effects of

Researchers have detected unusually diffuse brain activity while people at risk for ________ are trying to memorize words.

Because of the shortening of ________,aging cells may die without being replaced.