Human Development: A Lifespan
Instructor: Anna Otto
Chapter 17 Quiz
1. Average life expectancy refers to the number of years that an individual (born in a particular
year / with certain health characteristics) can expect to live, starting at (any given age / birth).
2. The most common form of dementia is ________________________________, in which
structural and chemical brain deterioration is associated with gradual loss of many aspects of
thought and behavior.
3.
True or False: Research shows that memory for remote memory is clearer than recent
events in late life.
4. _______________ was summed up by one researcher as “expertise in the conduct and
meaning of life.”