Health Trivia Questions for College Students — page 5

About what percentage of people who have had bridge jobs say it was better than their career job?

• ALess than 50%
• BMore than 75%
• CMore than 50%
• DLess than 25%

Those who survive the loss of another are called the

• AGrieving
• BSurvivors
• CFamily and friends
• DBereaved

In which country do most individuals choose to be cremated?

• AKenya
• BMexico
• CU. S. A.
• DJapan

Cells taken from a body and grown in a nutritional and protected culture will

• ANever divide
• BStop dividing when their telomere strands are gone
• CNever stop dividing
• DShow no senescence

Research has offered some longitudinal as well as cross sectional support for the theory put forth by

• AFoos
• BErikson
• CPeck
• DLevenson

Which of the following does NOT usually occur to the lens of the eye as one grows older?

• AIt becomes clouded
• BIt fills with fluid
• CIt becomes thicker
• DIt yellows

The biggest and most dangerous changes in the cardiovascular system take place in the

• ARed blood cells
• BHeart
• CBlood vessels
• DPlasma

The houses of the future may allow you to operate virtually everything in the house from a central terminal; such a house is already in production and is referred to as

• ATechnohouse
• BSmarthouse
• CCompuhouse
• DFuturehouse

People with a positive attitude about their own aging are more likely to

• AExperience stress at any sign of senescence
• BAdopt new anti-aging regimens
• COverlook danger signs of deterioration
• DAvoid serious injury and illness

The term "work-family conflict" for middle-aged adults can occur when they must

• ACare for an ailing parent while continuing to work
• BWork a high stress job while their children are at home
• CPay for nursing home care by sacrificing their own care
• DServing as an executor of their parent's estate while still working full time

Surveys of older adults who are living together show that they tend to view cohabitation as

• AAn alternative to marriage
• BTheir swan song
• CA way to save on expenses
• DA first step toward eventual marriage

Clifford and Lucia Pauling, in Senior View, told us that physical changes

• ACan be offset by meditation
• BTake a long time
• CShould not be discussed in public
• DAre rapid and frightening

Do traits change with age?

• AThey change quite a lot
• BOnly for women
• CThey change a little
• DNo

In this chapter's Senior View, Martha Steward says that theories are very wrong if they claim that

• AEveryone gets sick when they get old
• BThere is no upper limit on life span
• CYou can avoid senescence
• DOur fates are in the hands of powerful other

The decline in working memory with advanced age seems to be due to

• AA general decline in the ability to process information
• BA severe loss of neural connections and decreased blood flow
• CA loss of resources and slower processing speed
• DAn increase in the inhibition of relevant information

Over the adult years, genetics seems to play a bigger role than environment in

• ALoss of hair
• BLongevity
• CMarital satisfaction
• DThe development of wisdom

The information stored in memory, according to research and our Senior View interviewees, is

• AAlways exaggerated
• BNever accurate
• COur own interpretation
• DTrue to life

Cells in the eye that respond to low levels of illumination are called

• ANocturnal detectors
• BCones
• CRetinal cells
• DRods

Which of the following is always the longest?

• ALife span
• BLife expectancy at a specified age (LEASA)
• CThere is no way of knowing
• DLife expectancy at birth (LEAB)

That super sweet iced tea that your grandmother gives you might be that way because she

• AHas lost a lot of sweet taste buds and cannot taste sweetness as well anymore
• BIs trying to get you to be a little sweeter than you have been in the past
• CHas experienced damage in her parietal lobe where sweet sensations are directed
• DIs a member of that cohort that really enjoys sweets

The initials ADL stand for

• AActivities of Daily Living
• BAlways Delay Learning
• CAmerican Disease Legion
• DAncient Dependent Ladies

If you believe that we are mostly in control of our own development and that our behaviors, good or bad, determine how successful our aging with be, you would be said to have which of the following perspectives?

• ANurture
• BContinuity
• CMechanistic
• DOrganismic

Of the following animals, which has the longest life span by current measures?

• ABlue whale
• BQueen honey bee
• CDog
• DGorilla

The environmental design that brings pets and plants to nursing homes and young people and children as regular visitors is referred to as

• AThe Eden Alternative
• BInstrumental Living Design
• CHuman-Environment Congruence
• DThe Humanistic Choice

Which of the following factors is associated with a decreased risk of Alzheimer's?

• AA lower level of education
• BEating fish
• CBeing married
• DBeing African or Hispanic American

The term "senescence" refers to

• AThe process of becoming older
• BThe loss of mental abilities
• CAn increased vulnerability
• DBiological aging

The largest proportion of older adults living alone reside in

• AFlorida
• BHawaii
• CCalifornia
• DWashington, DC

An older adult who has received a message (e.g., it's going to rain tomorrow) would be most likely to remember what when telling another person?

• AWhere they were when they received the message
• BThe contents of the message
• CThe person who told them it would rain
• DThe time of day that the message was received

Surveys of bereaved individuals have found that one of the things that is reported as being most helpful is when others

• ARemain in close contact
• BStay away and let the person grieve
• CAvoid any discussion of the deceased
• DChange the home environment for the bereaved

DNA damage/repair theory claims that senescence is due to cells getting incorrect instructions from DNA damaged by sources such as

• ATelomerase
• BRadiation from anti-oxidants
• CFree radicals and sunlight
• DMetabolic processes

When older adults move to a new state after retirement, which of the following is the more likely destination?

• AVermont
• BCalifornia
• CHawaii
• DTexas

With respect to hair loss

• AWomen lose hair less frequently but more rapidly than men
• BEnvironmental factors are the main causes
• CMen are more systematic than women
• DMen lose but women do not

A problem for immune system theories of senescence is

• AThe lack of information about senescence in general
• BDetermining what first causes the senescence in the immune system
• CAuto-immune disorders are far too rare
• DThat the immune system does not decline with age

All other things being equal, which of the following men is likely to be the happiest in retirement?

• ALeo who never married
• BCaleb who is remarried
• CJosh who is divorced
• DGary who is still married

Before we can collect data from other human beings we must make sure that they

• AAre going to be honest and forthright
• BHave been granted permission to participate by the IRB
• CHave information that will be worth our effort to collect
• DAre informed about our study and give their consent to participate

Typically the longest phase of grieving is which of the following?

• ANumbing
• BYearning and searching
• CDisorganization and despair
• DDenial

A major difference between programmed and unprogrammed theories of senescence is that programmed theories

• AAre far too difficulty to test
• BClaim that senescence follows a predetermined plan
• CAttribute senescence only to environmental factors
• DRely too heavily on computer models

Which of the following improves attitudes toward aging and older adults?

• AEducation about older adults
• BWatching the portrayals of older adults in movies and on TV
• CStaying away from older adults
• DTravelling to older communities

All other things being equal, which of the following persons is more likely to show osteoporosis?

• AAn older Asian American woman
• BAn older Native American woman
• CAn older African American woman
• DAn older Hispanic American woman

Older adults are able to improve their memories and reduce their anxiety about declining memory when

• AOlder adults cannot do either of these
• BThey simply learn a number of memory improvement techniques
• CThey learn about memory and aging and learn some techniques
• DThey learn that many aspects of memory do not decline and some even get better

When a measure actually quantifies what it claims to measure, we say that it has good

• AValidity
• BAssociative value
• CAccuracy
• DReliability

The study of older adults and aging is referred to as

• AGerontology
• BGeropsychiatry
• CGeriatrics
• DGero-education

A person who is not very well organized, rarely sets goals, and frequently puts things off until the last minute would be said to be low on which trait?

• ANeuroticism
• BAgreeableness
• CConscientiousness
• DOpenness

The docility hypothesis is that

• AThose who experience high environmental demands become more docile
• BThose who experience high environmental demands become less docile
• CThose with low capabilities are more vulnerable to environmental demands
• DThose with less capability are less vulnerable to environmental demands

When asked where they would like to live for the rest of their lives most older adults say that they would prefer

• AMoving to Arizona or Florida if they could
• BMoving to be close to their children
• CResiding in a very nice nursing home
• DStaying in their own home

In this chapter's Senior View, May Lee told us that we should all respect our elders because

• AThey are much older than we are
• BThey ask nothing in return
• CThey lived through difficult times
• DThey raised us

Older adults may show less major depression than younger adults because they

• AHave very different brain biochemistry
• BHave learned to cope with loss
• CSee major depression as a stigma
• DAre no longer concerned with emotional matters

When a researcher takes part in the situation he or she is observing, he or she is said to be a(n)

• AParticipant observer
• BActive observer
• CIndiscreet observer
• DMeddling observer

Which of the following is caused by a prion?

• AAlzheimer's
• BHuntington's
• CCreutzfeldt-Jakob
• DVascular dementia

Which of the following appears to remain relatively stable over the adult years?

• AJob satisfaction
• BMarital strain
• CSensory memories
• DPersonal concerns