Older Adults

question 42

Multiple Choice

Older adults

• A) tend to speak more quickly than they did in their younger years.
• B) resolve tip-of-the-tongue states at a lower rate than do younger people.
• C) use more sentences, but shorter ones, to convey their message.
• D) have few compensatory techniques for their language production issues.

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Definitions:

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

A rare, degenerative, invariably fatal brain disorder affecting about one in every one million people per year.

Misshapen Proteins

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Louis Pasteur

A 19th-century French chemist and microbiologist known for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.

Rabies

A viral disease causing acute inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals, typically transmitted through the bite of an infected animal.