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5. What is the “dimensional approach” to emotions? The “specific-affectsapproach”? What happens when the elderly engage in reminiscence? (Hint:ANS)6. Why might glasses or dentures be important in a nursing home?7. Does anxiety generally increase with age? Does “trait anxiety” increase?8. Primary control vs. secondary control...9. In order to make accurate judgments about one’s primary control over anexternal outcome, one must be able to assess two factors. They are?10. Do internal and external locus of control and self-efficacy change with age?11. What did M. Baltes discover about care in nursing homes?12. “Learned dependency is not totally without benefits.” Explain this quote’smeaning.13. What happens when individuals are reinforced for acting independently?14. How do persons motivated by need for advancement differ from thosemotivated primarily by inner work standards?15. What happens to internal work standards over time?16. What factors might account for “disengagement theory”? (Hint: 3 factors).17. How do activity theorists account for the decrease in social interaction in olderadults?18. How does socio-emotional selectivity theory differ from the other theoriesabout motivation in regards to disengagement?19. According to Carstensen’s work, the major function of social interactions inold age is to...20. How does Gilligan see women’s and men’s views on morality?21. What are the moral problems of the aged?22. What do we know about the proportion of adults attending churches orsynagogues in the U.S.?23. When church attendance is used as a primary measure of religiosity, whathappens to religious participation over age?24. How does ethnicity play in church attendance across age and gender?25. How does the “black church” differ from the “white church”? (Hint:community).26. What are the four mechanisms that have been proposed to account forreligious involvement, health, and well being in the black community?27. Maslow based his concept of self-actualization on studies of brain-injuredsoldiers. What three secondary symptoms accounted fro their attempts toadapt?28. According to Maslow, what happens after someone has had a peakexperience?Chapter 13: Biological Development – The Aging Body1. What is the difference between life expectancy and potential life span?2. What are some of the problems with the “easier life” explanation of whyfemales live longer than males?3. If cardiovascular disease were eliminated, what would be the expectedincrease in life span?4. What is the life span cost of heavy smoking?5. What is “active life expectancy”?6. What is the “no later life necessary theory”?7. What is the “stochastic theory of aging”? The “cross linking theory”? The“wear-n-tear theory”?8. Does caloric restriction in old age lengthen life span?