FRHD 2060 Unit 1: Why Study Adult Development & Aging
Exam #1 Questions with Correct Answers
why study aging? - ✔✔to discover how ageism relates to stereotypes of aging,
understand life-span perspective, consider the characteristics of the
current/future older people in Canada
gerontology - ✔✔study of aging from maturity through old age
ageism - ✔✔discrimination based on age
2 life-span perspectives - ✔✔early phase (childhood/adolescence)
later phase (young adulthood, middle age, old age)
Paul Balter identified 4 key features - ✔✔1. multidirectionality
2. plasticity
3. historical context
4. multiple causation
multidirectionality - ✔✔development involves both growth and decline, grow in
one area - lose in another at different rates
decline ex: memory, reaction time
growth ex: wisdom
plasticity - ✔✔belief that capacity is not fixed but can be learning/improved with
practice
, refrain from using time limit with older adults
not predetermined
historical context - ✔✔we develop within a particular set of circumstances
determined by the historical time in which we were born and the culture we grew
up in
multiple causation - ✔✔how we develop results from a wide variety of forces
development is shared by biological, psychological, sociocultural and life-cycle
forces
life-span development: Baltes argued... - ✔✔life-span development consists of
dynamic interaction between: growth, maintenance, loss regulation
older adults tend to focus on... - ✔✔what they are good at which can aid in
balancing out their loss regulation
4 main forces that shape development - ✔✔1. biological (genetic/health)
2. psychological (cognitive, emotional)
3. sociocultural (culture, ethnic)
4. life-cycle forces (reflect differences in how the same event affect people at
different times)
4 forces on interaction - there is an age related.... - ✔✔1. reduction in the amount
and quality of biologically based resources
Exam #1 Questions with Correct Answers
why study aging? - ✔✔to discover how ageism relates to stereotypes of aging,
understand life-span perspective, consider the characteristics of the
current/future older people in Canada
gerontology - ✔✔study of aging from maturity through old age
ageism - ✔✔discrimination based on age
2 life-span perspectives - ✔✔early phase (childhood/adolescence)
later phase (young adulthood, middle age, old age)
Paul Balter identified 4 key features - ✔✔1. multidirectionality
2. plasticity
3. historical context
4. multiple causation
multidirectionality - ✔✔development involves both growth and decline, grow in
one area - lose in another at different rates
decline ex: memory, reaction time
growth ex: wisdom
plasticity - ✔✔belief that capacity is not fixed but can be learning/improved with
practice
, refrain from using time limit with older adults
not predetermined
historical context - ✔✔we develop within a particular set of circumstances
determined by the historical time in which we were born and the culture we grew
up in
multiple causation - ✔✔how we develop results from a wide variety of forces
development is shared by biological, psychological, sociocultural and life-cycle
forces
life-span development: Baltes argued... - ✔✔life-span development consists of
dynamic interaction between: growth, maintenance, loss regulation
older adults tend to focus on... - ✔✔what they are good at which can aid in
balancing out their loss regulation
4 main forces that shape development - ✔✔1. biological (genetic/health)
2. psychological (cognitive, emotional)
3. sociocultural (culture, ethnic)
4. life-cycle forces (reflect differences in how the same event affect people at
different times)
4 forces on interaction - there is an age related.... - ✔✔1. reduction in the amount
and quality of biologically based resources
