Adult Learning and Developmental Final Exam

ADULT LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

FINAL EXAM

Write at least a two-paragraph answer to each of the following questions. Make sure to check your spelling and sentence structure. Since we have experienced technical difficult with the electronic exam and you have been delayed in beginning your exam, this will be an OPEN BOOK exam. Use this document to type your responses to the questions. You will have until Friday, April 20th at 5pm to complete the exam. If you have trouble uploading your completed exam to the Final’s link, you can e-mail it to me in Canvas.

1. What are the major characteristics of normative age-graded, normative history-graded, and non-normative influences?

2. What are the basic changes in neurons as we age?

3. How does vision and hearing change as people age?

4. What are the key issues in stress across adulthood?

5. What are the major aspects of stress and coping theory relating to person-environment interactions?

6. What are the basic components of attention?

7. What are the major research approaches for studying intelligence?

8. How does negative stereotyping about aging unconsciously guide our behavior?

9. What is the five-factor model of dispositional traits?

10. Why are ethnicity and aging important variables to consider in understanding mental health?