FRHD 2060 Midterm Exam #1 Questions with Correct Answers
Gerentology - ✔✔a study of aging from maturity through to old age.
Ageism - ✔✔a form of discrimination against older adults
Life Span Perspective - ✔✔Divides human development into two phases
Early Phase: childhood and adolescence
Later Phase: young adulthood, middle age and old age
The early phase is characterized by rapid age-related increases in peoples
sizes/abilities.
Later phase; changes in size are slow, but abilities continue to develop
Multi directionality - ✔✔develop involves both growth and decline
Plasticity - ✔✔one's capacity is not predetermined or set in concrete. Skills can be
trained and improved
Historical Context - ✔✔determined by our historical time in which we are born
and the culture we grow up in
Baltes et al - ✔✔Growth, maintenance and loss regulation
Normative history graded influences - ✔✔experiences caused by biological,
psychological and socio-cultural forces that occur for most people at that age
Gerentology - ✔✔a study of aging from maturity through to old age.
Ageism - ✔✔a form of discrimination against older adults
Life Span Perspective - ✔✔Divides human development into two phases
Early Phase: childhood and adolescence
Later Phase: young adulthood, middle age and old age
The early phase is characterized by rapid age-related increases in peoples
sizes/abilities.
Later phase; changes in size are slow, but abilities continue to develop
Multi directionality - ✔✔develop involves both growth and decline
Plasticity - ✔✔one's capacity is not predetermined or set in concrete. Skills can be
trained and improved
Historical Context - ✔✔determined by our historical time in which we are born
and the culture we grow up in
Baltes et al - ✔✔Growth, maintenance and loss regulation
Normative history graded influences - ✔✔experiences caused by biological,
psychological and socio-cultural forces that occur for most people at that age
