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A researcher finds that age is negatively correlated with cigarette smoking; this means that
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Older adults experience more negative effects from
smoking that do younger adults
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Older adults smoke more than younger adults
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Older adults smoke less than younger adults
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Older and younger adults smoke about the same number
of cigarettes and both experience negative effects
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The correlation is
negative
Question 2
A researcher who is interested in the differences between two or more groups of people is
most likely to use which of the following approaches?
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Quasi-experimental
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Longitudinal
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Correlational
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Cross-sequential
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Is this the most likely approach?
Is this the most likely approach?
Question 3
A researcher who wants to examine both age and cohort differences is advised to use a
_____ design.
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Cross-sectional
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Cross-sequential
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Correlational
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Quasi-experimental
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Which kind of quasi-experimental design?
Before we can collect data from other human beings we must make sure that they
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Have information that will be worth our effort to collect
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Are going to be honest and forthright
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Are informed about our study and give their consent to participate
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Have been granted permission to participate by the IRB
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Question 5
If we found that adult age was significantly and positively correlated with consumption of
herbal teas, we could conclude that
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Drinking herbal teas makes one grow older more slowly Incorrect
Becoming older causes one to begin or increase
consumption of herbal teas
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Older adults drink less herbal tea than do younger
adults
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Older adults drink more herbal tea than do younger
adults
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The correlation is
positive
Question 6
If you believe that changes occur slowly and steadily throughout life, you would be holding
the _____ side of this view of development.
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Mechanistic
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Organismic
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Continuity
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Stability
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If you believe that we are mostly in control of our own development and that our behaviors,
good or bad, determine how successful our aging with be, you would be said to have which
of the following perspectives?
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Organismic
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Nurture
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Continuity
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Just the opposite
Question 8
Open-ended questions on a survey often make it difficult to
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Get people to fill the survey out
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Interpret the answers you get from people
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Collect data in a timely manner
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Get anyone to believe your results
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The answer "both play an important role" is clearly applicable to the question of
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Does that answer only apply here?
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Nature vs. nurture
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Mechanistic vs
organismic
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Continuity vs.
discontinuity
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All of these
questions
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All of these questions are on continuums and both
choices, influence human aging
Question 10
The Kingbergs give us several keys to successful aging; which of the following is one that
they did not name?
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They did give us this important key
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Eat the correct food but not too much.
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Respect each other
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Party at least once a month
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Make long-range plans
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Question 11
The lifespan perspective says that development is composed of gains and losses; this
means that
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We gain while we are younger but lose when we are older
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We gain some things and lose others at every age
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Question 12
For every aspect of development there is no overall change since
each gain is offset by loss
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Gains are far more important than losses but losses occur too
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The perspective that development is embedded in history means that
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Change can always occur regardless of age
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Development shows
plasticity
Sociocultural conditions must always be considered
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Development in any particular areas (e.g., social) is tied
to development in other areas (e.g., cognitive)
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Some characteristics change with age while others do
not
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The term "cohort" refers to
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An individual's chronological age
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A generation of people who lived through major events
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A person's gender
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A group of people living in the same culture
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Theories
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Are not very important in aging research
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Attempt to explain findings and guide future research
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Have never been adequately tested
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Have been around for a long time but have only recently been
tested
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We want our measures to be as reliable as possible; reliability refers to
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Whether our measure really measure anything at all
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Whether our measure is really measuring what it claims to
measure
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Whether our measure is consistent in the information it provides
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Whether our measure has or has not been used before
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When a measure actually quantifies what it claims to measure, we say that it has good
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Accuracy
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Validity
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Reliability
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Associative value
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Question 17
When a researcher takes part in the situation he or she is observing, he or she is said to be
a(n)
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Active observer
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He or she might be active but what is the official name
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Participant
observer
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Indiscreet observer Incorrect
Meddling observer
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Which of the following is the most important variable for gerontological researchers?
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Age
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Gender
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Cohort
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Time of measurement
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