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191. Which of the following statements is/are TRUE regarding Baltes and Staudinger’s research on wisdom?               a. They found no increase or decrease in wisdom between 20 and 80 years of age.               b. More elderly adults scored in the top 20 percent on the measures of wisdom.               c. Wisdom is maintained over time even as traditional measures of cognitive performance decline. d. All of these statements are true. 192. Psychologists believe that _______ decisions demonstrate knowledge about life, acknowledge that situations have different implications in different contexts, and recognize that people have diverse values.               a. intelligent               b. practical               c. wise d. creative 193. Psychologists believe that wise decisions               a. demonstrate knowledge about life.               b. acknowledge that situations have different implications in different contexts.               c. recognize that people have diverse values. d. do all of these. 194. Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding the overall judgment of adults?               a. Older people demonstrate poorer social sensitivity than younger people do.               b. Older adults tend to be more insightful in areas where experience is a good teacher. c. Older adults show greater wisdom than younger adults when the issue is important to older people’s lives. d. No increase or decrease in scores on measures of wisdom were found between 20 and 80 years of age. 195. Which of the following statements is/are TRUE regarding definitions of creativity?               a. If creativity is defined as thinking flexibly and quickly, then creativity declines with age. b. If creativity is defined as the ability to redefine problems or see unique connections between different sets of information, then creativity sometimes increases with age. c. Older adults are less creative if you count the number of works they produced, although the quality of their creative works does not change. d. All of these statements are true. 196. __________ involves an inability to recall very recent events and general confusion that rapidly becomes worse.               a. Early dementia b. Memory loss due to overmedication c. Normal short-term memory problems d. Normal cognitive changes due to aging 197. Which of the following statements is/are TRUE regarding definitions of creativity?               a. If creativity is defined as thinking flexibly and quickly, then creativity increases with age. b. If creativity is defined as the ability to redefine problems or see unique connections between different sets of information, then creativity decreases with age. c. Older adults are less creative if you count the number of works they produced, although the quality of their creative work does not change. d. All of these statements are true. 198. Bill is 55 years old and is having minor lapses in memory, such as misplacing his glasses or forgetting to return a library book. He also is having more difficulty in attending to several things at once, such as multiple instant message conversations. Bill also needs more repetition to learn new names and occasionally has word-finding problems. His prospective memory, such as remembering to take in the mail after his walk, is not what it used to be. These changes indicate that Bill is               a. in the early stages of dementia. b. mostly likely experiencing problems due to overmedication. c. should be evaluated for the possibility of small strokes. d. experiencing normal memory loss. 199. Which of the following characteristics would indicate that a person is experiencing dementia?               a. memory for the details of recent events may be vague b. sometimes forgets a word or feels it is on the “tip of tongue” c. gradually loses the ability to perform tasks, such as cooking and handling money d. all of these would indicate dementia 200. Which of the following characteristics would indicate that a person is experiencing dementia?               a. may forget part or all of a recent event b. gradually loses the ability to follow stories on TV, in movies, or in books c. gradually loses information, such as historical or political information learned in the past d. all of these would indicate dementia