Check Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

23 .
Describe how brain changes in middle adulthood can hinder or help judgment or problem-solving.
24 .
Identify and explain two factors that are associated with better brain health in adulthood.
25 .
Identify and explain why postpartum changes to the body of the person who gave birth may be related to loosening of the connective tissues during pregnancy.
26 .
What might influence sexual activities in middle age?
27 .
Identify cross-cultural differences in the way persons assigned female at birth perceive menopause.
28 .
What positive changes in cognition might be expected in middle adulthood?
29 .
Explain why crystallized intelligence gradually increases over adulthood.
30 .
What is the Flynn effect, and what factors might explain it?
31 .
Why is strength training an important activity as adults age?
32 .
How is sleep quality defined?
33 .
What are the benefits of a four-day workweek?
34 .
Explain the terms “motherhood wage penalty” and “fatherhood wage premium” with respect to gender disparity in worker pay.