DEP 2004 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Metabolic Syndrome - ✔✔Characterized by hypertension, obesity, and insulin
resistance (and chronic stress)
✔✔Symptoms of menopause - ✔✔Hot flashes, nausea, fatigue, and rapid heart beat
✔✔Erickson's Stage of Generativity Vs. Stagnation - ✔✔Desire to leave a legacy to the
next generation. Stagnation means they have done nothing to leave for future
generations
✔✔Social Clock - ✔✔The timetable on which individuals are expected to accomplish
life's tasks- getting married, having children, etc.
✔✔Big Five Factors of Personality - ✔✔Emotional Stability, Extraversion, Openness to
Experiences, Agreeable, and Conscientiousness
✔✔Empty Nest Syndrome - ✔✔Includes a decline in marital satisfaction after children
leave the home
✔✔Cellular Clock Theory - ✔✔Cells can divide a maximum of about 75-80x and as we
age our cells become less capable of dividing
✔✔Cataracts - ✔✔A thickening of the lens of the eye that causes vision to become
cloudy, opaque or distorted
✔✔Selective Attention - ✔✔focusing on a specific aspect of experience that is relevant
while ignoring others that are irrelevant
✔✔Divided Attention - ✔✔Concentrating on more than one activity at the same time
✔✔Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon - ✔✔Individuals are confident that they can
remember something but just can't quite retrieve it from memory.
✔✔Implicit Memory - ✔✔Memory w/o conscious recollection. Involves skills of routine
procedures ex. driving a car, typing on a keyboard
✔✔Alzheimer's Disease - ✔✔A progressive irreversible brain disorder that is
characterized by a gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and
eventually physical function. Caused by a deficiency in Acetylcholine and the formation
of amyloid plaques & nuerofibrillary tangles
, ✔✔Erickson's Integrity Vs. Despair - ✔✔8th and Final stage of development, occurs
during late adulthood. Involves reflecting on the past and either piecing together a
positive review or concluding that one's life was not well spent.
✔✔Life Review - ✔✔Includes socioculture dimensions, such as culture ethnicity &
gender as well as interpersonal relationship dimensions and personal dimensions
(creation and the discovery of meaning & coherence)
✔✔Percent of deaths that occur in the hospital in the US - ✔✔50%
✔✔Living Will - ✔✔A legal document that reflects the patient's advance care planning
✔✔Passive Euthanasia - ✔✔when a person is allowed to die by withholding available
treatment
✔✔Active Euthanasia - ✔✔Occurs when death is deliberately induced such as by lethal
injection
✔✔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
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Metabolic Syndrome - ✔✔Characterized by hypertension, obesity, and insulin
resistance (and chronic stress)
✔✔Symptoms of menopause - ✔✔Hot flashes, nausea, fatigue, and rapid heart beat
✔✔Erickson's Stage of Generativity Vs. Stagnation - ✔✔Desire to leave a legacy to the
next generation. Stagnation means they have done nothing to leave for future
generations
✔✔Social Clock - ✔✔The timetable on which individuals are expected to accomplish
life's tasks- getting married, having children, etc.
✔✔Big Five Factors of Personality - ✔✔Emotional Stability, Extraversion, Openness to
Experiences, Agreeable, and Conscientiousness
✔✔Empty Nest Syndrome - ✔✔Includes a decline in marital satisfaction after children
leave the home
✔✔Cellular Clock Theory - ✔✔Cells can divide a maximum of about 75-80x and as we
age our cells become less capable of dividing
✔✔Cataracts - ✔✔A thickening of the lens of the eye that causes vision to become
cloudy, opaque or distorted
✔✔Selective Attention - ✔✔focusing on a specific aspect of experience that is relevant
while ignoring others that are irrelevant
✔✔Divided Attention - ✔✔Concentrating on more than one activity at the same time
✔✔Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon - ✔✔Individuals are confident that they can
remember something but just can't quite retrieve it from memory.
✔✔Implicit Memory - ✔✔Memory w/o conscious recollection. Involves skills of routine
procedures ex. driving a car, typing on a keyboard
✔✔Alzheimer's Disease - ✔✔A progressive irreversible brain disorder that is
characterized by a gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and
eventually physical function. Caused by a deficiency in Acetylcholine and the formation
of amyloid plaques & nuerofibrillary tangles
, ✔✔Erickson's Integrity Vs. Despair - ✔✔8th and Final stage of development, occurs
during late adulthood. Involves reflecting on the past and either piecing together a
positive review or concluding that one's life was not well spent.
✔✔Life Review - ✔✔Includes socioculture dimensions, such as culture ethnicity &
gender as well as interpersonal relationship dimensions and personal dimensions
(creation and the discovery of meaning & coherence)
✔✔Percent of deaths that occur in the hospital in the US - ✔✔50%
✔✔Living Will - ✔✔A legal document that reflects the patient's advance care planning
✔✔Passive Euthanasia - ✔✔when a person is allowed to die by withholding available
treatment
✔✔Active Euthanasia - ✔✔Occurs when death is deliberately induced such as by lethal
injection
✔✔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
