Andrew Is 60 and Is Starting to Have Memory Lapses

question 130

Multiple Choice

Andrew is 60 and is starting to have memory lapses and struggling to complete things that used to take him no time at all. He finds himself forgetting driving routes that he used to know. Andrew might be experiencing the developmental pattern called ________.

• A) normal aging
• B) pathological aging
• C) everyday aging
• D) successful aging

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Definitions:

Cooing

The early vocalization stage of human infancy, where babies produce soft, vowel-like sounds as a precursor to language development.

Psycholinguistic Theory

A framework that studies how psychological factors and linguistic elements interact in the processing and comprehension of language.

Empiricist Theory

A theory suggesting that knowledge comes primarily from sensory experience and that human understanding and ideas grow from such experience.