DEP 2004 EVALUATION EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Hospice - ✔✔A program committed to making the end of life as free from pain,
anxiety, and depression as possible
✔✔Kubler-Ross Stages of dying - ✔✔Denial & Isolation (No it can't be me), Anger (Why
me), Bargaining (hope that death can be delayed), Depression, acceptance
✔✔Erickson's Intimacy Vs. Isolation - ✔✔struggle to form close relationships and gain
the capacity for intimate love, or they feel socially isolated.
✔✔Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Love - ✔✔passion, intimacy, and commitment
✔✔Cohabitation before marriage - ✔✔Studies show length of cohabitation increasing
an average of 22 months in 2010 compared to 13 months in 1995; after 3 years 40%
married, 32% continued to live with their partner, 27% moved out; 70% of women
without a high school diploma cohabitated; lower rate of marital satisfaction and higher
rate of divorce in couples that lived together before marriage.
✔✔Average age in US for first marriage - ✔✔Men 28.7 Women 26.5
✔✔Year of Marriage range when most divorces occur - ✔✔Usually occur in 5th - 10th
year of marriage
✔✔Advantages of having children early - ✔✔Parents are likely to have more physical
energy, Mother is less likely to have medical problems, parents may be less likely to
build up expectations
✔✔Advantages of having children later - ✔✔Parents will have had more time to figure
out life goals, parents will be more mature and able to use life experiences to engage in
more competent parenting, parents will be better established in their careers and have
more money for child rearing.
✔✔Current life expectancy in the US - ✔✔78 years old
✔✔Reason for Loss of Height as we age - ✔✔Bone loss in the vertebrae
✔✔Body Area of Most Age-Related loss of Muscle strength - ✔✔Back and legs
✔✔Pitch of Sounds that are lost first - ✔✔High pitches
✔✔Why is LDL Considered bad cholesterol - ✔✔When LDL is too high it sticks to the
lining of the blood vessels which can lead to arthersclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
, ✔✔Health issues that occur at an above average rate in older African Americans -
✔✔High Blood Pressure and Stroke
✔✔health event that occurs at an above average rate among Latinos - ✔✔Diabetes
✔✔Symptoms of decline in men's testosterone levels - ✔✔Erectile Disfunction
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔The ability to reason abstractly, which begins to decline from
middle adulthood on.
✔✔Crystallized Intelligence - ✔✔An individuals accumulated and verbal skills and
effects of culture and reasoning
✔✔Nonindustrialized countries vs industrialized countries view of age stages - ✔✔Non-
industrialized societies view people as young and old not middle aged.
✔✔Costa & McCrae survey of 1000 college students are the big 5 traits stable or
unstable - ✔✔The big 5 personality factors are stable
✔✔AARP Reason people postponed divorces - ✔✔For the sake of their children
✔✔Helicopter Parenting - ✔✔Parents that hover too closely to assure their children
succeed in college or in life
✔✔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
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Hospice - ✔✔A program committed to making the end of life as free from pain,
anxiety, and depression as possible
✔✔Kubler-Ross Stages of dying - ✔✔Denial & Isolation (No it can't be me), Anger (Why
me), Bargaining (hope that death can be delayed), Depression, acceptance
✔✔Erickson's Intimacy Vs. Isolation - ✔✔struggle to form close relationships and gain
the capacity for intimate love, or they feel socially isolated.
✔✔Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Love - ✔✔passion, intimacy, and commitment
✔✔Cohabitation before marriage - ✔✔Studies show length of cohabitation increasing
an average of 22 months in 2010 compared to 13 months in 1995; after 3 years 40%
married, 32% continued to live with their partner, 27% moved out; 70% of women
without a high school diploma cohabitated; lower rate of marital satisfaction and higher
rate of divorce in couples that lived together before marriage.
✔✔Average age in US for first marriage - ✔✔Men 28.7 Women 26.5
✔✔Year of Marriage range when most divorces occur - ✔✔Usually occur in 5th - 10th
year of marriage
✔✔Advantages of having children early - ✔✔Parents are likely to have more physical
energy, Mother is less likely to have medical problems, parents may be less likely to
build up expectations
✔✔Advantages of having children later - ✔✔Parents will have had more time to figure
out life goals, parents will be more mature and able to use life experiences to engage in
more competent parenting, parents will be better established in their careers and have
more money for child rearing.
✔✔Current life expectancy in the US - ✔✔78 years old
✔✔Reason for Loss of Height as we age - ✔✔Bone loss in the vertebrae
✔✔Body Area of Most Age-Related loss of Muscle strength - ✔✔Back and legs
✔✔Pitch of Sounds that are lost first - ✔✔High pitches
✔✔Why is LDL Considered bad cholesterol - ✔✔When LDL is too high it sticks to the
lining of the blood vessels which can lead to arthersclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
, ✔✔Health issues that occur at an above average rate in older African Americans -
✔✔High Blood Pressure and Stroke
✔✔health event that occurs at an above average rate among Latinos - ✔✔Diabetes
✔✔Symptoms of decline in men's testosterone levels - ✔✔Erectile Disfunction
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔The ability to reason abstractly, which begins to decline from
middle adulthood on.
✔✔Crystallized Intelligence - ✔✔An individuals accumulated and verbal skills and
effects of culture and reasoning
✔✔Nonindustrialized countries vs industrialized countries view of age stages - ✔✔Non-
industrialized societies view people as young and old not middle aged.
✔✔Costa & McCrae survey of 1000 college students are the big 5 traits stable or
unstable - ✔✔The big 5 personality factors are stable
✔✔AARP Reason people postponed divorces - ✔✔For the sake of their children
✔✔Helicopter Parenting - ✔✔Parents that hover too closely to assure their children
succeed in college or in life
✔✔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
