If You Were Going to Advise a Middle-Aged Adult on How

question 146

Multiple Choice

If you were going to advise a middle-aged adult on how to best maintain and improve her cognitive abilities into older adulthood, your best advice would be to tell her to:

• A) quit working, relax, and watch more TV
• B) stay intellectually engaged in complex tasks
• C) create a stable routine, in which the tasks she does are done repeatedly so forgetting does not occur
• D) make sure she gets enough sleep each night so her brain has a chance to store the new information she learned that day

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Definitions:

Providing Feedback

The process of offering constructive criticism, praise, or guidance to someone, especially in a work or learning environment, to promote improvement or development.

Motives

The underlying reasons or forces that drive an individual to act in a certain way.

Supportive Behavior

Actions that show understanding, encouragement, or assistance, often aimed at fostering a positive outcome in interpersonal relationships or work environments.

Empathize

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another, putting oneself in their position.