Which Field Looks at Aging from the Points of View

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which field looks at aging from the points of view of both the individual and the social system?

• A) geriatrics
• B) psychosocial studies
• C) social gerontology
• D) didactic-senescence

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Definitions:

Behavioral Approach

A perspective in psychology focusing on observable behaviors and the ways in which they're learned, rather than on internal states or motivations.

Organized Activity

A planned or structured event or operation designed to achieve specific goals or objectives.

Hawthorne Studies

A series of experiments conducted in the 1920s and 1930s that examined how different work conditions affected employee productivity, highlighting the importance of social factors and employee attention.

Worker Productivity

A measure of the efficiency of a worker or group of workers, typically evaluated in terms of the amount of output produced over a given period of time.