DEP 2004 LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
RATED A+
✔✔Grandparenting styles - ✔✔1) Formal- Strong interest in their grandchildren but
careful not to give child-rearing advise.
2) Fun-seeking- Informal and playful
3) Distant- Grandparent was benevolent but interaction was infrequent.
✔✔Reason Middle Adulthood is known as sandwich generation - ✔✔Because of the
responsibilities they have for their adolescents as well as their aging parents
✔✔Part of the brain that shrinks most with aging - ✔✔The prefrontal cortex
✔✔Decreases in which neurotransmitter is associated with Alzheimer's - ✔✔Acetyl-
Choline
✔✔Activity that decreases the onset of physical disability in adults - ✔✔Exercise
✔✔Main Reason reported for older adults not having sex - ✔✔Poor health
✔✔Symptoms of Arthritis - ✔✔Pain, Stiffness, and movement issues
✔✔Leading Cause of Broken Bones in women - ✔✔Osteoporosis
✔✔SAMHSA Invisible Epidemic - ✔✔Substance and Abuse and Mental Health Services
Association has identified substance abuse as the invisible epidemic
✔✔Outcome of giving more control of daily schedules to nursing home residents -
✔✔They patients became more alert and active with the more control of schedules and
choices
✔✔Lachman- Correlation of less education with depression in older adults - ✔✔Older
adults with less education had lower cognitive ability
✔✔Person Most Likely to Abuse the Elderly - ✔✔Family Members
✔✔Staudinger- Most important personal investment at age 85-105 - ✔✔health
✔✔Cross-Sectional Study- Domain in Which Self Control was rated lowest in eldercare
- ✔✔Physical domain
✔✔Is it common for Americans to reach adulthood without seeing someone die? -
✔✔Yes
, ✔✔American attitudes toward death - ✔✔Death avoiders and death deniers,
✔✔Explaining death to young children - ✔✔Honesty is the best policy. Preschool
children usually only need simple physical and biological terms. Adults should be
sensitive and sympathetic, encouraging them to express their own feelings
✔✔race - ✔✔a social category, or social construction, that we treat as distinct on the
basis of certain characteristics, some biological, that have been assigned social
importance in the society
✔✔Ethnicity - ✔✔a social category of people who share a common culture, such as a
common language or dialect, a common religion, or common norms, practices, and
customs
✔✔individualism - ✔✔the self is independent--identity from individual traits
✔✔Collectivisom - ✔✔the self is interdependent--identity from belonging
✔✔Correlational Studies - ✔✔An approach to research that involves measuring different
variables to see whether there is a predictable relation among variables
Finding Relationships
The goal of some correlational studies is simply to find out if variables are related
Is there a relation between whether students prefer early or late classes and their
grades in those classes?
✔✔A longitudinal study found that at age 25 _____ of the participants were fully
financially independent of their family of origin. - ✔✔a little more than half
✔✔In developing countries, marriage, the marker for entry into adulthood usually occurs
_____ the adulthood markers in the United States - ✔✔much earlier than
✔✔Age of beginning signs of decline in muscle tone and strength - ✔✔30 Years Old
✔✔nature (genetics) vs. nurture (environmental factors) of obesity - ✔✔Genes play a
role in obesity but so do environmental factors such as the availability of food, and
sociocultural factors, ex low income women tend to be more overweight.
✔✔Bachman et al study - findings regarding alcohol and drug use in mid-twenties -
✔✔Peaks at 21-22 years of age and declines through the rest of the twenties
✔✔phone survey - the most common perpetrator of attempted rape of college women -
✔✔Someone the victim knew such as a classmate or boyfriend.
✔✔Formal Operational Though - ✔✔More logical, abstract, and idealistic
RATED A+
✔✔Grandparenting styles - ✔✔1) Formal- Strong interest in their grandchildren but
careful not to give child-rearing advise.
2) Fun-seeking- Informal and playful
3) Distant- Grandparent was benevolent but interaction was infrequent.
✔✔Reason Middle Adulthood is known as sandwich generation - ✔✔Because of the
responsibilities they have for their adolescents as well as their aging parents
✔✔Part of the brain that shrinks most with aging - ✔✔The prefrontal cortex
✔✔Decreases in which neurotransmitter is associated with Alzheimer's - ✔✔Acetyl-
Choline
✔✔Activity that decreases the onset of physical disability in adults - ✔✔Exercise
✔✔Main Reason reported for older adults not having sex - ✔✔Poor health
✔✔Symptoms of Arthritis - ✔✔Pain, Stiffness, and movement issues
✔✔Leading Cause of Broken Bones in women - ✔✔Osteoporosis
✔✔SAMHSA Invisible Epidemic - ✔✔Substance and Abuse and Mental Health Services
Association has identified substance abuse as the invisible epidemic
✔✔Outcome of giving more control of daily schedules to nursing home residents -
✔✔They patients became more alert and active with the more control of schedules and
choices
✔✔Lachman- Correlation of less education with depression in older adults - ✔✔Older
adults with less education had lower cognitive ability
✔✔Person Most Likely to Abuse the Elderly - ✔✔Family Members
✔✔Staudinger- Most important personal investment at age 85-105 - ✔✔health
✔✔Cross-Sectional Study- Domain in Which Self Control was rated lowest in eldercare
- ✔✔Physical domain
✔✔Is it common for Americans to reach adulthood without seeing someone die? -
✔✔Yes
, ✔✔American attitudes toward death - ✔✔Death avoiders and death deniers,
✔✔Explaining death to young children - ✔✔Honesty is the best policy. Preschool
children usually only need simple physical and biological terms. Adults should be
sensitive and sympathetic, encouraging them to express their own feelings
✔✔race - ✔✔a social category, or social construction, that we treat as distinct on the
basis of certain characteristics, some biological, that have been assigned social
importance in the society
✔✔Ethnicity - ✔✔a social category of people who share a common culture, such as a
common language or dialect, a common religion, or common norms, practices, and
customs
✔✔individualism - ✔✔the self is independent--identity from individual traits
✔✔Collectivisom - ✔✔the self is interdependent--identity from belonging
✔✔Correlational Studies - ✔✔An approach to research that involves measuring different
variables to see whether there is a predictable relation among variables
Finding Relationships
The goal of some correlational studies is simply to find out if variables are related
Is there a relation between whether students prefer early or late classes and their
grades in those classes?
✔✔A longitudinal study found that at age 25 _____ of the participants were fully
financially independent of their family of origin. - ✔✔a little more than half
✔✔In developing countries, marriage, the marker for entry into adulthood usually occurs
_____ the adulthood markers in the United States - ✔✔much earlier than
✔✔Age of beginning signs of decline in muscle tone and strength - ✔✔30 Years Old
✔✔nature (genetics) vs. nurture (environmental factors) of obesity - ✔✔Genes play a
role in obesity but so do environmental factors such as the availability of food, and
sociocultural factors, ex low income women tend to be more overweight.
✔✔Bachman et al study - findings regarding alcohol and drug use in mid-twenties -
✔✔Peaks at 21-22 years of age and declines through the rest of the twenties
✔✔phone survey - the most common perpetrator of attempted rape of college women -
✔✔Someone the victim knew such as a classmate or boyfriend.
✔✔Formal Operational Though - ✔✔More logical, abstract, and idealistic
