Flashcards for Exam 2 - Psych 200
Sichhun is a 50-year-old female whose hormone levels have dropped. Her menstrual cycle has ceased and she has begun to experience hot flashes, headaches, dizziness, and heart palpitations on a frequent basis. Which of the following best explains Sicchun's condition?
menopause
Monique has noticed some hair growing on her armpits and that her hips are getting wider. Monique is most likely experiencing ______
puberty
What age do you start emerging adulthood?
18
Emerging adulthood is the period between which ages?
18-25
How many categories are classified in coping?
2
What percentage of midlife adults exercise frequently and strenuously to achieve health benefits?
20%
How many older adults identify as lesbian or gay?
3 million
Arnett has identified how many characteristics of emerging adulthood?
5
_______ is a sleep disorder in which breathing actually stops for 10 seconds or more numerous times in the course of a typical night, as the air passage to the lungs closes, resulting in a sudden loud snore as the airway opens again and the sleeper awakens
Sleep apnea
Those in _____ have made a commitment to an identity _____ having explored the options
Identity foreclosure; without
In Erikson's theory of development, each stage of life has a central crisis, and in adolescence and early adulthood the crisis is ______
Identity versus role confusion
Developed countries can be viewed as ______, whereas, developing countries can be seen as _______
Individualistic; collective
Layla is in a relationship with a boy named Josh, and she has an intense amount of feelings for him. She is not able to focus on her homework or anything else other than Josh. What is this considered according to Sternberg's Triangle of Love?
Infatuation
Erikson felt that one of the MOST important tasks of the twenties and thirties was to develop a sense of _________
Intimacy through a close partner relationship
James is finally 16 and he's getting a sense of freedom and independence from his parents. His parents also have been given extra time for themselves. What may be the cause of this effect?
James is now a teen driver
What type of memory involves the storage of information for long periods of time?
Long term memory
Which frame from Davison's theory of love is the healthiest in terms of partner's independence, intimacy, and self-love?
M
In what condition is there a loss of clarity in the center of the visual field
Macular degeneration
____ describes a female's first menstruation, whereas _____ describes a male's first ejaculation of sperm
Menarche; semenarche/spermarche
During young adulthood the heart muscle starts to become _____, but this is not noticeable except during times of ______
More rigid; intense physical activity
Your 68-year-old grandmother has quite a bit of gray hair. She told you that she first started getting gray hair when she was 52 and it keeps getting grayer every year. What is happening that her hair is getting gray?
Most people experience loss of pigment that provides hair color
What does the acronym NEET stand for?
Neither employed nor in education or training
Your grandmother has been experiencing the side effects of menopause and you overheard your mother and grandmother discussing the possibility of using Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). What would be your advice?
Not to use HRT, as there are serious side effects including increased risk of stroke, blood clots (hence, heart attacks) and breast cancer
Which of the following best describes the type of attention where individuals must tune out irrelevant information?
Selective attention
If someone is having a difficult time seeing or hearing, the information will not be stored?
Sensory register
What is the hormone Oxytocin known as?
Hormone of love
Approximately what percentage of adolescents develop acne?
85%
________ students between the ages of 18 and 24 report having experienced alcohol-sexually related assault or date rape
97,000
Which of the following couples might display a more intrinsic type of marriage?
A couple that is vital
Your grandparents and you have had a very good and loving relationship since you were a very young child. They talk about all kind of things with you. They are both in their late 70s and have been talking quite a bit about their lives, how they lived their lives, and the high and low points. According to Butler, what are your grandparents doing?
A life review
One factor that promotes self-esteem among minority youth is ________
A strong and positive racial or ethnic identity
Jonathan is 13 years old and is starting to see changes in his physicality, his ways of thinking and also in his social relationships with others. What stage of development is he in?
Adolescence
Alex is talking to his friends one day and seems to be having a very rough day. HIs friend Jordan asks him what happened. He replies, "you wouldn't know how I am feeling, you've never felt this feeling so I am not going to talk to you or anyone else about it." What does this behavior demonstrate?
Adolescence Egocentrism
Antony is an adolescent who is primarily responsible for taking care of his younger sibling while his parents work. In addition, Antony's household includes not only his parents and siblings, but also includes grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins as well. Based upon this description, Antony is most likely ______
An adolescent who lives in a traditional culture
Which of the following emerging adults have a high degree of pressure to develop an identity that places an emphasis on obligation to parents and others?
Asian
Early maturing girls are _________
At a higher risk of depression, promiscuity, and eating disorders
Over the years, plaque builds up on the coronary arteries, causing the passage of blood through the arteries to become constricted. What is the name of this condition?
Atherosclerosis
Which aspects of human sexuality largely concern the human reproductive functions?
Biological and Physical
Which of the following is consistent with the recommended level of aerobic exercise for individuals in late adulthood?
Brisk walking
What is the phenomenon called when cells divide a limited number of times then stop?
Hayflick limit
_______ is a waxy fatty substance carried by lipoprotein molecules in the blood
Cholesterol
What type of love involves commitment and intimacy, but there is a loss for passion? This may apply to a couple who have been married for many years, and who have lost the passion, but still have emotional intimacy in their relationship. The couple remains committed and supported, but lost sexual attraction for each other
Companionate
After midlife, most males:
Continue to be reproductive
An adult is likely to outperform a child due to which type of intelligence?
Crystallized intelligence
Your grandmother tells you about how things were in the "Old Country" when she was a child before she moved with her family to the United States. Your grandmother's recollections of cultural information are examples of her ______
Crystallized intelligence
If you are in your twenties, your middle-aged mother should outperform you on measures of _______ intelligence, while you should do better than your mother on tests of _______ intelligence
Crystallized; fluid
What type of love involves commitment alone without passion or intimacy and applies to a couple who have been married for many years, and who have lost the passion and intimacy in their relationship but have remained together?
Empty love
According to Erikson, what is the primary psychological milestone of adolescence?
Developing a sense of identity
In spite of being a healthy stage in life, the top five causes of death in young adulthood include these EXCEPT ________
Diabetes - The top five causes of death in young adulthood include: --Cancer --Suicide --Homicide
Regular exercise in young adulthood reduces the risk of a variety of illnesses and diseases in middle adulthood, including ______
Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and several types of cancer
What is the ability to bring together salient aspects of two opposing viewpoints or positions referred to as?
Dialectical thought
What type of thinking develops in emerging adulthood that involves a growing awareness that problems often have no clear solution and two opposing strategies or points of view may each have some merit?
Dialectical thought
The theory that suggests that the elderly and society mutually withdraw from each other is:
Disengagement theory
Tertiary education is best described as any kind of ________
Education or training program beyond high school
What type of love involves commitment alone without passion or intimacy and applies to a couple who have been married for many years, and who have lost the passion and intimacy in their relationship, but remain together?
Empty love
Your 43-year-old uncle has his own automobile repair shop. Whenever you have car problems all you have to do is describe the noise that your car is making and he can accurately diagnose the problem on the phone. Psychologists would argue that this is an example of his _______
Expertise
Your younger brother is absolutely crazy about his new girlfriend. They have been together for about two weeks and they are inseparable. He is already talking about a permanent situation with her. According to Sternberg, what type of love is he experiencing?
Fatuous love
You notice that you are very quick to respond to the changing conditions in a new video game that you just bought. In fact, you are better at responding and adapting to the scenery and demands of the game than your friends who bought and started playing the game two weeks ago. What type of intelligence are you tapping into?
Fluid intelligence
Jacob has been pressured by his father to take over the family farm. Reluctantly, Jacob has agreed to this identity status because that is what is best for his parents. He has not explored his options but has passively accepted the identity his father imposed on him. From James Marcia's model, which of the following identity statuses can Jacob's be categorized as?
Foreclosure
Soon after Sarah's 13th birthday, her parents begin to see a huge change in their daughter's way of looking at the world. She is looking beyond the physical world and asking many questions about the world around her she had not once seen in this way. What stage of development is Sarah approaching?
Formal Operation Stage
Sally is playing outside with her brother Micah, and wants to push him down when he takes her swing. Sally does not push Micah, however, because she predicts that she will be punished with no television privileges after dinner if she does. Sally is most likely in the _____ stage of development
Formal operational
In our twenties, intimacy needs to be met through _______ rather than with partners
Friendships
Theo is an adolescent boy who has gotten in trouble for a number of delinquent acts such as underage drinking, vandalizing on Halloween, and trespassing. Researchers who take a biological approach would explain this behavior as being caused by an immature _____
Frontal lobe
What is the most obvious indicator that aging begins in young adulthood?
Graying hair
Which of the following is an environmental cause for decreased auditory acuity during middle adulthood?
Having a history of working within a factory or a job that exposes a person to chronically loud noises
Kate is 87, what kind of care will she most likely need?
Nursing home/Long term care
During middle adulthood, which of the following are factors related to sleep disturbances and sleep disorders?
Obesity, chronic pain, and stress
Reese is a single mom and really busy, what form of dating is best for her?
Online dating
Betty is a 75-year-old widow who enjoys taking exercise classes, traveling, and playing with her great-grandchildren. What population of late adulthood would she be considered?
Optimal aging
What happens if the wheel theory of love turns backward?
Partners will talk less, less likely to rely on one another, and less likely to disclose much of anything
What aspect of love fades fairly quickly in most relationships as partners become used to each other and the stresses and conflicts of daily life accumulate?
Passion
Adults have gained experience and understood why possibilities do not always become realities. What kind of thinking is this?
Postformal Thoughts
_______ involves adapting logical thinking to the practical constraints of real-life situations
Pragmatism
Two kinds of changes take place in the body in response to increased sex hormones during puberty. What characteristic is directly related to reproduction?
Primary sex characteristics
What type of memory is involved when an individual remembers how to perform a task or activity involving motor skills?
Procedural memory
The prefrontal cortex is one of the areas of the brain that changes the most dramatically during adolescence. Which of the following is NOT a cognitive function of the prefrontal cortex?
Recognizing facial features
Tracey is new to college and dorm life. She experiments with drugs and alcohol and often 'blacks out' after a night of partying. Tracey is exhibiting what type of behavior?
Risky behavior
Ms. Long is a third grade teacher and uses cooperative learning in her classroom. In creating groups of students, she will equally distribute high achieving, moderate achieving, and low achieving students so there is one student of each category in every group. Based upon the skills of each student, Ms. Long knows that the high achieving students can help the moderate achieving students, and in turn, the moderate achieving students can help the low achieving students. It is clear that Ms. Long is using the principle of ______ in her classroom
Scaffolding
What is the term that is used to describe the decline in physical functioning that takes place due to lifestyle behaviors such as unhealthy diet, insufficient exercise and substance use, as well as environmental influences such as pollution?
Secondary aging
A male's larynx grows and his voice becomes deeper. A woman starts to grow underarm hair and pubic hair. These examples of sexual maturity are known as what?
Secondary sexual characteristics
Lawrence is 23 years old and has recently graduated with his bachelor's degree in psychology. He has applied to several graduate programs but has been denied by all of them. Now, Lawrence is seeking employment and would like to find a job that leads to a promising career. Although not his ideal scenario, he applied for a position as an academic advisor at a community college, was offered a job, and accepted a position. Which stage of Donald Super's theory of occupational development is Lawrence in?
Stage 3
Sasha has recently experienced the death of a family member and is having a difficult time managing large amounts of school work. These negative events have caused her blood pressure to rise, poor sleeping habits, and an inability to fully recover from a common cold. Sasha is currently dealing with large amounts of ________
Stress
The time period of emerging adulthood is more likely to be seen in which of the following countries?
The United States, Australia, and Japan
Which of the following best describes the phenomenon known as menopause?
The end of monthly ovulation and menstruation
Each time ovulation does not result in a healthy pregnancy, what occurs?
The endometrial lining is shed and removal of unfertilized eggs
Which of the following best explains why visual acuity declines during middle age?
The lens of the eye enlarges and becomes less flexible/elastic and less transparent
Bob helped his sports team win the state championship and now he thinks he may someday be famous. This reflects:
The personal fable
Which of the following best describes Erik Erikson's notion of intimacy?
The uniting of one's newly formed identity with another person in an enduring, committed intimate relationship
Which of the following is a common activity that emerging adults engage in with their friends?
Unstructured socializing
________ is the ability to use common sense and good judgment in making decisions
Wisdom
According to Jane Fonda's Ted talk, the three factors that can contribute to an upward ascension to human spirit on the life's staircase are __________
Wisdom, wholeness, and authenticity
Which aspect of memory is hardest hit in late adulthood?
Working memory
Ashley and Lindsey are a couple do they deal with added stress from social disapproval and discrimination of their same-sex relationship?
Yes
Does our body seek out social relationships during stress?
Yes
Do cohabiting relationships last long?
Yes, they last longer than normal non-cohabiting couples
The changes that occur in vision during middle adulthood make it necessary that most adults _____
get reading glasses
Middle adulthood
has many individual differences and cultural variation
The age of _____ is an age when people explore various possibilities in love and work as they move toward making enduring choices
identity explorations
Jean Piaget proposed that cognitive development reaches full maturity at formal operations; however, contemporary researchers propose that this is not the case, but rather that cognitive maturity exceeds into ________
postformal thinking
People who hear a ringing or buzzing sound with no external source probably have ________
tinnitus