Chapter 12 example #34104

A drop in sex hormones in a woman's bloodstream along with cessation of ovulation and menstruation signals:

As people age, their eyes adjust to darkness more quickly.

Baltes and Baltes found that adults use their intellectual strengths to offset their age-related declining abilities through the process of:

Beginning in middle adulthood, hypertension can greatly harm brain functioning.

Compared to novices, experts typically:

Crystallized intelligence remains steady throughout middle adulthood.

Difficulty in performing normal activities of daily life because of a "physical, mental, or emotional condition" is called:

Examining worldwide trends in smoking shows that smoking:

Men experience the same sudden downward shift in reproductive ability as women.

The basic intelligence that makes learning quick and thorough is referred to as _____ intelligence.

The Flynn effect refers to an individual's increasing intelligence with age and experience.

The Flynn effect refers to the:

What are the odds that a person will inherit the dominant gene for Alzheimer disease?

What percentage of adults in the United States and England get at least 30 minutes per day of exercise?

When developmentalists use the term "expert," they usually mean a person who:

Which country has experienced a doubling of its diabetes rate in the past 4 decades?

Which physical change does NOT typically occur in middle adulthood?

Which psychologist proposed the existence of g?

Which statement does NOT describe the effect of SES upon a person's life span?

Which statement is true for people of both genders as they age?