Question

Which of the following is FALSE concerning friendship in late adulthood?

Question 17 options:

	Older adults put less effort into maintaining friendships.
	In late adulthood, the number of people considered friends is smaller.
	Men are more likely than women to re-partner after divorce or death of the partner.
	Many older widows do not look for another marriage relationship.

Longevity itself may result from lifelong ______, in this case harming men.

Question 7 options:

	1) social disengagement
	2) discrimination
	3) income stratification
	4) gender stratification

An older author tells a younger author about the success of his first book, published many years ago, describing only the good reviews and that he was invited to talk about it on several TV shows.

This is an example of

Question 5 options:

	compulsive hoarding of experiences
	resisting self-destruction
	selective optimization with compensation
	the positivity effect

Socioemotional selectivity theory suggests that older people prioritize regulation of their emotions. One version of this approach involves selective optimization with compensation. which of the following is an example of this?

Question 4 options:

	David is 91-years-old and still drives, even though his family has pointed out that he drives too far below the speed limit and has difficulty adjusting to the dark.
	Carl used to be a runner but he has given up running because he says that "he is just too old for it".
	Maria goes to great lengths to retain as youthful an appearance as possible by having plastic surgery.
	Selena was a fairly good gardener but never had time before retirement. Now she is taking a gardening class in the Academy of Lifelong Learning.

Answer 1

Question 17

Which of the following is FALSE concerning friendship in late adulthood? Many older widows do not look for another marriage relationship

A report in 2012 says "The number of grooms in their late adulthood increased by 25% while that of brides of late sixties went up by 21%

Question 7

Longevity itself may result from lifelonggender stratification

in this case harming men.

Question 5

An older author tells a younger author about the success of his first book, published many years ago, describing only the good reviews and that he was invited to talk about it on several TV shows.

This is an example of positivity effect.

Generally older people attend to and remember more positive than information than younger adults

Question 4.

Socioemotional selectivity theory suggests that older people prioritize regulation of their emotions. One version of this approach involves selective optimization with compensation. which of the following is an example of this? David is 91-years-old and still drives, even though his family has pointed out that he drives too far below the speed limit and has difficulty adjusting to the dark.

SOC works by optimizing older adults' best abilities and most intact functions while compensating for declines and losses