Your Grandparents Have Both Been Interested in Solving Puzzles, Playing

question 132

Multiple Choice

Your grandparents have both been interested in solving puzzles, playing card games, watching educational television and reading books. How do these activities affect the primary ageing process?

• A) They have no effect on primary ageing.
• B) Since they interfere with physical activities, they actually quicken the primary ageing process.
• C) They enhance mental abilities and slow cognitive decline.
• D) They negatively impact primary ageing.

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Definitions:

Culture-Bound Syndromes

Mental illnesses or psychopathologies that are recognized to exist only within specific societies or cultures.

Psychological Health

A state of well-being in which an individual realizes their own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively, and is able to make contributions to their community.

Acculturation

The process of cultural change and adaptation that results when different cultures come into direct continuous contact.

Unconscious Racism

Implicit biases and attitudes towards members of different races that operate beyond an individual's conscious awareness and influence behavior and decisions.