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Gerontology EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024/2025( A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED).
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GerontologyAging - ANS Progressive changes during adult years, these changes are not
necessarily negative nor do they reduce an individual's viability
Gerontology - ANS The study of the human aging process from maturity to old
age, as well as the study of the older adult as a special population
Geriatrics - ANS The study of health and disease in later life
Concerned w/ the comprehensive health care of older people and the well-being
of their caregivers
Senescence - ANS Mutations that may accumulate over time in certain genes in
cells in the reproductive system, on the other hand, describe age related loss of
function
Ageism - ANS The prejudiced behavior of individuals and systems within the
culture against older adults
Chronological aging - ANS Number of years since birth
Biological aging - ANS The changes reducing efficiency of organ systems
Psychological Aging - ANS Memory, learning, adaptive capacity, personality, and
mental functioning
Social Aging - ANS Referring to social roles, relationships, and the overall social
context in which we grow old
Health technology - ANS Reduced infant mortality and prolonged adult life
Scientific technology - ANS Creating jobs that do not depend on skills and
knowledge accumulated over decades of experience
Gerontophilia - ANS 1600 to 1800
, Old age was exalted and venerated, sometimes hated and feared, but more often
honored and obeyed
Gerontophobia - ANS 1800 to present
Americans increasingly glorified youth instead of age, and older people often
became victims of prevailing attitudes and social arrangements
Stereotypes - ANS Generalized beliefs or opinions based on individual
experience, often produced by irrational thinking
Mortality salience - ANS Occurs when fear of death is high. To buffer this fear
people identify more strongly with their in-group
Negative aging stereotypes - ANS Illness, impotency, ugliness, mental decline,
mental illness, uselessness, isolation, poverty, depression
Biomedicalization of aging - ANS Growth of scientific inquiry and subsequent
advances in medical sciences. The belief that problems associated with aging are
biological rather than social and behavioral
Compassionate stereotyping - ANS Olders adults are portrayed as
disadvantaged on some level ( economic, social, psychological) in need and
deserving of help by others
Positive stereotypes - ANS Generalized beliefs that categorize all older people in
a favorable light
Negative stereotypes - ANS Categorize old people in demeaning ways
Self-concept - ANS The way in which people see themselves as being
Social construction of self - ANS The way we interpret events in our lives is
partially a reflection of how we are treated
Phenomenology - ANS The meaning of an event is defined by the person
experiencing that event or phenomenon , not a researcher's hypothesis
Data - ANS Information being gathered by each of these viewers, as a means for
testing or developing their perspective, whether economic or physical
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