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121. Which of the following is FALSE regarding sleeping in later life? a. The elderly often spend more time in deep sleep and less time in lighter phases of sleep. b. Individuals who delay bedtime may still wake up in the early morning as body temperature rises. c. Taking medications to induce sleep can increase one’s risk of nighttime falls. d. Sleep is often hampered in the elderly by bladder problems, aching joints, and lung disease. 122. _______ is a permanent loss of mental ability that is serious enough to impose daily living tasks. a. Agnosia b. Aphasia c. Cognitive dissonance d. Dementia 123. People who have one of the many conditions that produce dementia experience problems in               a. memory. b. reasoning. c. planning. d. all of these. 124. A noticeable change in attention, language, and critical thinking is referred to as ___________ and often precedes the development of dementia.               a. cognitive dissonance b. mild cognitive impairment c. transient narcosis d. pre-dementia 125. Two approaches for separating mental skills and explaining how mental abilities change as we age are the ___________ approach, which describes our performance on standardized paper-and-pencil tests across the life span, while the ___________ approach digs deeper to learn how our performance is affected by age-related changes in specific skills, such as attention, memory, and language.               a. information processing; psychometric b. psychometric; information processing c. Piagetian; psychometric d. psychometric; Piagetian 126. As we age, a difference appears between ___________ intelligence, which is the knowledge and verbal skills that accumulate with age, and ____________ intelligence, which is the ability to reason abstractly and solve new problems.               a. psychometric; analytic b. analytic; psychometric c. crystallized; fluid d. fluid; crystallized 127. Which of the following is/are TRUE regarding intelligence test performance as one ages?               a. Scores on tests of crystallized intelligence are generally steady or increase, at least up to age 60. b. When people are not required to respond quickly, scores on measures of fluid intelligence also do not show substantial drops until age 60. c. The speed of performing some tasks, such as solving mathematical problems is already dropping by age 30. d. All of these statements are true. 128. Which of the following is/are TRUE regarding intelligence test performance as one ages? a. Perceptual subtest scores on the WAIS are fairly stable until about age 70 and do not decline dramatically until the end of life. b. Verbal subtests scores on the WAIS decline from early to middle adulthood and are ultimately much lower than perceptual scores. c. Some of the poor performance of the elderly on certain types of tests of mental abilities may be due to the stress of being tested on unfamiliar tasks. d. All of these statements are true. 129. As long as the target is easy to distinguish from distractions, elderly adults are good at __________, which involves attending to one thing and ignoring distracting information. a. focused attention b. selective attention c. divided attention d. multi-tasking 130. Jorge is 70 years old and is watching a movie at the local theatre. Jorge is able to attend to the movie, even though there is a couple talking four rows behind him and a man is crunching popcorn two rows in front of him. Jorge is exhibiting a. focused attention. b. selective attention. c. divided attention. d. multi-tasking.