Question: One implication of the text is that people most often search for post-retirement jobs because they:
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a) don’t get along with their families, b) need the money, c) want to work less than full time at their career job, d) want to continue to work in their own field
Answer: b) need the money
Question: When 30-year-olds and 70-year-olds make memory mistakes, observers are apt to conclude:
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a) everyone is mentally declining, b) varying things, depending on the observer, c) the older adults are cognitively declining; the young people have too much on their minds, d) everyone has too much on their minds
Answer: c) the older adults are cognitively declining; the young people have too much on their minds
Question: Widowed people do best when they:
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a) deny their pain, b) immerse themselves in grief, c) establish new routines, d) join widowed person’s groups
Answer: c) establish new routines
Question: Which symptom is NOT typical during “early” widowhood?
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a) focusing on the events surrounding the death, b) feeling that family members don’t care, c) feeling competent, d) feeling contradictory emotions
Answer: a) focusing on the events surrounding the death
Question: Why is the median age rising in affluent nations?
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a) Fertility is declining and the baby boomers have all entered later life, b) Everyone now has the same life expectancy, regardless of their socioeconomic status, c) More people are living until 110, d) Life expectancy has leveled off
Answer: a) Fertility is declining and the baby boomers have all entered later life
Question: When lecturing on the length of retirement in the United States, which description should Dr. Horvatz use?
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a) expanding for much of the twentieth century, b) becoming shorter over the years, c) expanding dramatically until this very day, d) staying stable over the years
Answer: a) expanding for much of the twentieth century
Question: While driving, a 75-year-old woman and a 20-year-old grandchild witness a terrible car crash. Socioemotional selectivity theory would predict that:
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a) both adults will quickly overcome the distressing images, b) the 75-year-old will be better at blocking out the distressing images, c) both adults will have regular flashbacks of the distressing images, d) the 20-year-old will be better at emotionally blocking out the distressing images
Answer: b) the 75-year-old will be better at blocking out the distressing images
Question: With age:
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a) procedural memory declines, b) every type of memory declines, c) working memory bin space declines, d) only semantic memory declines
Answer: c) working memory bin space declines
Question: Tasks involving divided attention impair memory _____.
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a) in old age, b) by middle age, c) at every age, d) unless people practice multitasking
Answer: c) at every age
Question: Who is LEAST likely to be poor in old age?
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a) someone who retires early in the United States because of health concerns, b) someone who retires in the United States after working at a low-wage job, c) a German retiree, d) a U.S. woman in her eighties
Answer: c) a German retiree
Question: Vladimir is furious that elderly people get Medicare while young people don’t. This issue relates to _____.
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a) intergenerational equity, b) unfair equity, c) pro-elderly equity, d) health-related equity
Answer: a) intergenerational equity
Question: Generalizing from the text, who MOST dislikes being in crowds of strangers?
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a) teenagers, b) midlife adults, c) children, d) older people
Answer: d) older people
Question: People who enter U.S. home hospice:
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a) on average, have less than a week to live, b) are typically cared for at home by family members, c) must totally abandon curative treatments, d) are typically comatose
Answer: b) are typically cared for at home by family members
Question: Health-care personnel _____ get formal instruction in end-of-life care, but many courses may be _____.
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a) sometimes; inadequate, b) typically; inadequate, c) rarely; too intense, d) never; inadequate
Answer: b) typically; inadequate
Question: If a widow(er) says, “It was a relief when my partner died,” MOST likely this person:
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a) was in a bad marriage and is being honest, b) is reacting predictably if a spouse was suffering greatly or had a major neurocognitive disorder, c) cannot love, d) is denying reality and will get very upset later on
Answer: b) is reacting predictably if a spouse was suffering greatly or had a major neurocognitive disorder
Question: Who is MOST likely to be passionately opposed to legalizing active euthanasia?
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a) Celesta, who lives in Western Europe, b) Chellen, who doesn’t believe in an afterlife, c) Cyrill, who is highly religious and lives in Poland, d) Casperin, who lives in the Netherlands
Answer: c) Cyrill, who is highly religious and lives in Poland
Question: Age-based rationing of care:
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a) will become an important issue in affluent nations as the baby boomers all enter their old-old years, b) is vital in the developing world, c) will never happen if a certain political party is in power, d) will never happen in the future
Answer: a) will become an important issue in affluent nations as the baby boomers all enter their old-old years
Question: People should NOT recommend home hospice to someone who is terrified of:
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a) dying alone, b) intensive care units, c) being hooked up to machines, d) burdening family members with the caregiving
Answer: c) being hooked up to machines
Question: Kübler-Ross’s ENDURING contribution to death and dying was to:
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a) reveal that anger and bargaining are important emotions in terminal illness, b) highlight that everyone wants to talk about being terminally ill, c) alert society to the need to pay attention to the emotions of terminally ill people, d) show that terminally ill people progress through five stages
Answer: c) alert society to the need to pay attention to the emotions of terminally ill people
Question: Which statement BEST sums up opinions regarding assisted death?
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a) accepted worldwide, b) rejected worldwide, c) accepted in Western Europe and the United States, d) accepted by most clergy people
Answer: c) accepted in Western Europe and the United States
Question: According to the text, which quality is LEAST important in having “a good death”?
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a) being as free as possible from debilitating pain, b) feeling close emotionally to loved ones, c) being religious, d) believing that one’s life had purpose
Answer: c) being religious
Question: Today, people are LEAST likely to die _____.
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a) in youth, b) in old age, c) slowly, d) of chronic disease
Answer: a) in youth
Question: Put the historical sequence of events in order: (1) before the twentieth century; (2) early through mid-twentieth century; (3) twenty-first century.
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a) (1) Death is hidden and never discussed; (2) death is discussed openly, and attention is paid to quality end-of-life care; (3) death is familiar and all around, b) (1) Death is discussed openly, and attention is paid to quality end-of-life care; (2) death is familiar and all around; (3) death is hidden and rarely discussed, c) (1) Death is discussed openly; (2) death is familiar and all around; (3) death is hidden and never discussed, d) (1) Death is familiar and all around; (2) death is hidden and never discussed; (3) death is discussed openly, and attention is paid to high-quality end-of-life care
Answer: d) (1) Death is familiar and all around; (2) death is hidden and never discussed; (3) death is discussed openly, and attention is paid to high-quality end-of-life care
Question: The diagnosis of persistent complex bereavement-related disorder is:
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a) totally wrong, b) controversial, c) only relevant when a child dies, d) firmly established
Answer: b) controversial
Question: According to the text, physicians ideally should:
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a) leave discussions of death to nurses, b) be totally open with dying people about their fate, c) take their cues from dying patients about how much they want to know, d) shy away from offering information to dying patients
Answer: c) take their cues from dying patients about how much they want to know
Question: All things being equal, the age group MOST likely to have trouble coping with a fatal disease is in their _____.
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a) eighties, b) fifties, c) seventies, d) twenties
Answer: d) twenties