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Chapter 6: Age and Aging
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1. Disengagement theory is to the _______ perspective as modernization theory is to the

_______ perspective.
a. interactionist; functionalist
b. conflict; feminist
c. feminist; interactionist
*d. functionalist; conflict
Learning Objective: LO 6-3
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Functionalist Perspective, p. 152; Conflict Perspective, p. 153
Question Type: MC
2. A life course perspective examines

*a. The entire course of human life from childhood to old age
b. The first 12 years of human life
c. Life from age 18 to old age
d. Later years in life
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction, p. 148
Question Type: MC
3. The study of aging and the elderly is called _______.

a. seniorology
b. scientology
c. genealogy
*d. gerontology
Question Type: MC
4. A group of people born during a particular period who experience common life events during
the same historical period is known as a _______.
a. silver tsunami
*b. cohort
c. demographic
d. baby boom
Answer Location: Our Aging World, p. 149
Question Type: MC
5. Median age refers to

a. The average age of a population
b. The most frequently occurring age in a population
*c. The age where half the population is older, and the other half is younger
d. The age calculated one half between the average and mode
Question Type: MC
6. The median age in the U.S. increased from _______ in 1820 to _______ in 2000.
a. 17 years; 25 years
b. 23 years; 32 years
c. 35 years; 44 years
*d. 17 years; 35 years
Question Type: MC
7. The study of the changes and trends in the population is known as _______.
a. agronomy
*b. demography
c. gerontology
d. entomology
Question Type: MC
8. All but which of the following have been identified as reasons why our population is aging?
*a. Increase in birth rates
b. Medical and technological advances
c. Influence of birth cohorts
d. Improvements in life expectancy
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Our Aging World, pp. 148–149
Question Type: MC
9. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the life expectancy for a child born in 2011 is
_______ years.
a. 59.8
b. 68.2
*c. 78.7
d. 85.5
Question Type: MC
10. It is estimated that approximately _______ people become eligible for Social Security every
_______.
a. 1,000; day
b. 1,000; month
c. 10,000; month
* d. 10,000; day
Question Type: MC
11. Population aging signals a need for changes in all of the following EXCEPT this:
a. Health care
*b. Childcare
c. Social welfare for the elderly
d. Living arrangements
Question Type: MC
12. The percentage of elderly in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean are predicted to
_______.
a. stabilize
*b. more than double
c. slowly decrease
d. rapidly fluctuate
Question Type: MC
13. A 2007 Brookings Institution report predicts the emergence of which senior type?
*a. Yuppie seniors
b. Hippie seniors
c. Transitional seniors
d. Situational seniors
Question Type: MC
14. Which perspective argues that age serves to maintain the stability of society by providing a
set of roles and expectations for each particular age group or for a particular life stage?
a. Feminists
b. Interactionists
*c. Functionalists
d. Conflict theorists
Answer Location: Functionalist Perspective, p. 152
Question Type: MC
15. According to the functionalist perspective, roles and expectations for each particular age
group are reinforced by all of the following institutions EXCEPT this one:
a. Education
b. The economy
*c. Religion
d. The family
Question Type: MC
16. The final form of disengagement is _______.

a. retirement
b. parenthood
c. illness
*d. death
Question Type: MC
17. Modernization theory of aging is closely linked to _______ theory.
a. interactionist
*b. conflict
c. feminist
d. functionalist
Answer Location: Conflict Perspective, p. 153
Question Type: MC
18. Modernization theory of aging suggests that the role and status of the elderly declines with
_______.
*a. industrialization
b. gentrification
c. urbanization
d. medicalization
Question Type: MC
19. The idea that men are judged in our culture according to what they can do, but women are
judged according to their appearance and beauty is referred to as the _______.
a. reality hypothesis
b. graying of America
c. stereotype threat
*d. double standard of aging
Answer Location: Feminist Perspective, p. 154
Question Type: MC
20. All of the following are causes of population aging EXCEPT this:
a. Longer life expectancy
*b. Decreasing urbanization
c. A decline in birth rates
d. Effects of birth cohorts
Question Type: MC
21. Who coined the term stigma?

a. Robert Butler
*b. Erving Goffman
c. Émile Durkheim
d. Max Weber
Answer Location: Interactionist Perspective, p. 155
Question Type: MC
22. Discrimination against older adults is known as _______.

a. stigma
b. geriatrics
*c. ageism
d. partiality
Question Type: MC
23. Emma was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1948. Gerontologists would consider her a member of
the _______ birth cohort.
*a. baby boom
b. Depression
c. Gen X
d. millennial
Question Type: MC
24. The author uses the term elderly to refer to those individuals aged _______ years or older.
a. 55
b. 60
*c. 65
d. 70
Question Type: MC
25. What is one of the most negative attributes of being identified as old in our society?
a. Unlikable
b. Competent
*c. Dependent
d. Untrustworthy
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Ageism, p. 157
Question Type: MC
26. Which of the following laws prohibits employers from discriminating based on age?
a. Ageism Act of 1970
*b. Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
c. Age Discrimination in Unemployment Act of 1965
d. Title IX
Answer Location: Ageism in the Workplace, p. 161
Question Type: MC
27. Social Security is designed to protect citizens against the risk of _______.
a. premature institutionalization
b. inadequate health care
*c. insufficient resources
d. employment discrimination
Answer Location: Responding to Age Inequalities, p. 162
Question Type: MC
28. For the first time, people aged 65 and over are expected to outnumber children under age 5
by the year _______.
*a. 2020
b. 2030
c. 2040
d. 2050
Question Type: MC
29. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 prohibits employers from discriminating
based on age against people _______.
a. over age 21
b. who have a disability
*c. between the ages of 40 and 64
d. over age 60
Question Type: MC
30. Which group has the highest risk of mortality?

a. Older adults
*b. Newborns and infants
c. Teenage boys
d. Young women
Answer Location: Health and Medical Care, p. 160
Question Type: MC
31. The nation’s largest health insurance program is _______.

*a. Medicare
b. Medicaid
c. Social Security
d. HealthPlus
Answer Location: Medicare, p. 165
Question Type: MC
32. Jack is a 74-year-old retired professor who has been hospitalized following a heart attack.
Which program will most likely help pay some of Jack’s hospital costs?
a. Social Security
b. Unemployment Insurance
*c. Medicare Part A
d. Medicare Part B
Answer Location: Medicare, pp. 165, 167
Question Type: MC
33. Because of gender differences in employment and salaries, women are likely to have
_______ retirement income compared to men.
*a. less
b. more
c. the same
d. welfare
Answer Location: Age and Social Class, p. 158
Question Type: MC
34. Which group constitutes the majority of the elderly in the United States?
*a. Women
b. Men
c. African Americans
d. Hispanics
Question Type: MC
35. Since the traditional nursing home care model is no longer considered financially viable or
medically justified, there has been an increase in all of the following EXCEPT this:
a. Older adult managed care at home
b. Day care centers for the elderly
c. Visits to specialists
*d. Disengagement
Question Type: MC
36. Most older adults throughout the world are frail and dependent on others for care.
a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
37. Age serves to distinguish acceptable behavior for different social groups.
*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
38. The life course perspective examines human life from age 18 to 75.
a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
39. Demography is the study of aging and the elderly.

a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
40. The most prevalent chronic disease of the elderly is dementia.

a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
41. In 2000, the U.S. median age was 35 years old.

*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
42. Population aging is partly due to the effects of urbanization.

a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
43. The baby boom generation is an example of a cohort.

*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
44. Overall, the population of the world is aging.

*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
45. The term mature senior refers to affluent elderly populations living in the southern and
western regions of the United States.
a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
46. Functionalists see the aging process as detrimental to the stability of society.
a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
47. The modernization theory of aging suggests that the role and status of the elderly decline
with industrialization.
*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
48. Men compose the majority of the U.S. elderly population.

a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
49. According to the double standard of aging theory, it is harder for men to age than for
women to age.
a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
50. It is estimated that Americans spend nearly $50 billion per year on anti-aging vitamins,
treatments, hormones, and pharmaceutical drugs.
*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
51. Age prejudice is one of the most socially condoned and institutionalized forms of prejudice.
*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
52. In a comparative study of young adults in the U.S. and Germany, German young adults
tended to view aging more negatively than Americans.
*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
53. The most economically vulnerable groups in our society are the young and the old.
*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
54. Older women have higher rates of poverty than older men.
*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
55. The American elderly constitute 13% of our population yet consume less than 15% of total
health expenditures.
a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
56. Social Security was first enacted with the Social Security Act of 1962.
a. True
*b. False
Answer Location: Social Security, p. 163
Question Type: TF
57. Medicaid is considered the nation’s largest health insurance program.

a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
58. Unless policy changes are put into place, any worker born after 1975 will reach full
retirement age after the Social Security trust fund is depleted.
*a. True
b. False
Answer Location: Social Security, p. 165
Question Type: TF
59. The percentage of elderly in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean is predicted to more
than double due to high fertility and low mortality rates.
*a. True
b. False
Question Type: TF
60. Research indicates that compared to other professions, medical professionals are the least
prejudiced against old people.
a. True
*b. False
Question Type: TF
61. Provide one example of a birth cohort.

*a. Answers vary.
Question Type: SA
62. What are two unique problems faced by older Americans in the workplace?
*a. Answers vary. Less likely to be hired; not offered promotions, training, or compensation;
and stereotyped as inflexible or unable to learn.
Question Type: SA
63. Identify the age ranges of the young-old, the old-old, and the oldest-old.
*a. Answers vary. Young-old are aged 65 to 75, the old-old are aged 75 to 84, and the oldest-old
are aged 85 and older.
Question Type: SA
64. Which four factors have contributed to the growth of older populations throughout the
world?
*a. Answers vary. Fertility decline, improved health and longevity, and increasing urbanization.
Question Type: SA
65. What is one concern with the functionalist perspective on aging?

*a. Answers vary. It fails to acknowledge how vulnerable and powerless adults are in their older
years.
Question Type: SA
66. Which four aspects of modernization lower the status of older people, according to the
conflict perspective?
*a. Answers vary. Health technology, education, economic technology, and urbanization.
Question Type: SA
67. Define the double standard of aging.

*a. Answers vary. Men are judged in our culture according to what they can do (their
competence, power, and control), but women are judged according to their appearance and
beauty.
Question Type: SA
68. Which two groups are at odds with each other, according to the conflict perspective?
*a. Answers vary. The young and the old.
Question Type: SA
69. Name one stereotype of older adults.

*a. Answers vary.
Question Type: SA
70. Which age group has the highest risk of mortality?

*a. Answers vary. Newborns and infants within their first year of life.
Question Type: SA
71. What is the most prevalent chronic disease of the elderly?
*a. Answers vary. Arthritis.
Question Type: SA
72. How did the Supreme Court make the burden of proof tougher for plaintiffs in age
discrimination cases?
*a. Answers vary. An employee would have to prove that age was the decisive factor (as
opposed to a motivating factor) in an adverse employment decision.
Question Type: SA
73. Name the two antipoverty programs that support financial independence in the elderly.
*a. Answers vary. Social Security and Medicare.
Answer Location: Responding to Age Inequalities, p. 162
Question Type: SA
74. Briefly describe the two parts of Medicare.

*a. Answers vary. Part A (hospital insurance) helps pay for care received as an inpatient in
critical-access hospitals or skilled nursing facilities, as well as some home health care; Part B
(physician and outpatient coverage) pays for medically necessary services and supplies that are
not covered under Part A.
Question Type: SA
75. Compare and contrast yuppie senior and mature senior. Which group is more likely to
require social and public support, and why?
*a. Answers vary.
Question Type: ESS
76. Age prejudice is one of the most socially condoned and institutionalized forms of prejudice.
Discuss ageism in the United States. What is the stigma associated with aging in the United
States? How does this impact the experience of growing old?
*a. Answers vary.
Question Type: ESS
77. Explain the reasons why women are more economically vulnerable in retirement than men.
*a. Answers vary.
Question Type: ESS
78. Discuss the shift in resources for the elderly as the culture converts from nursing home
facilities to home health care and specialized visits. How does this emerging approach differ
from the conventional one? What are the reasons for the conversion?
*a. Answers vary.
Question Type: ESS
79. Discuss the opening to the chapter and the assertion of the 500 retired scientists in Japan
who volunteered as first responders to the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in 2011. What do you think
about what these seniors did? How do you think their viewpoint would have been accepted had
the same thing happened in the United States?
*a. Answers vary.
Learning Objective: 6-1
Question Type: ESS

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Chapter 6: Age and Aging

Leon-Guerrero, Social Problems 5e

Test Bank for Social Problems Community Policy and

1. Disengagement theory is to the _______ perspective as modernization theory is to the

2. A life course perspective examines

3. The study of aging and the elderly is called _______.

5. Median age refers to

16. The final form of disengagement is _______.

21. Who coined the term stigma?

22. Discrimination against older adults is known as _______.

30. Which group has the highest risk of mortality?

31. The nation’s largest health insurance program is _______.

39. Demography is the study of aging and the elderly.

40. The most prevalent chronic disease of the elderly is dementia.

41. In 2000, the U.S. median age was 35 years old.

42. Population aging is partly due to the effects of urbanization.

43. The baby boom generation is an example of a cohort.

44. Overall, the population of the world is aging.

48. Men compose the majority of the U.S. elderly population.

57. Medicaid is considered the nation’s largest health insurance program.

61. Provide one example of a birth cohort.

65. What is one concern with the functionalist perspective on aging?

67. Define the double standard of aging.

69. Name one stereotype of older adults.

70. Which age group has the highest risk of mortality?

74. Briefly describe the two parts of Medicare.

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