HG&D ch. 14 hw questions
Roughly, what percentage of adults responded that adults have a duty to care for their aging parents?
80%
Following the "Grant Study," Vaillant concluded that which of the following is the main focus of a person in his/her forties?
Reassessing and recording the truth about the adolescent and adulthood years
According to Erikson, which of the following are ways in which middle-aged adults can develop generativity?
cultural generativity biological generativity work generativity
According to Levinson, a person between the ages of 28 and 33 is faced with which of the following tasks?
determining life goals
The contemporary life-events approach takes into account all of the following, except ______.
the stability of one's personality overtime
Which of the following pairs is most likely to have the closest relationships during their adult years?
mothers and daughters
In general, high scores on the Big Five factor of ______ are associated with less optimal life outcomes.
neuroticism
Recent studies revealed that middle-aged adults were ______ their counterparts in late adulthood to view their relationships with indifference or ambivalence.
more likely than
According to Levinson, what are the two major tasks to be mastered in early adulthood? `
*Developing a stable life structure *Exploring the possibilities for adult living
George Vaillant performed longitudinal studies of adult development and aging on which THREE of the following groups?
*Middle-SES, intellectually gifted women born about 1910 *Socially disadvantaged inner-city men born about 1930 *Socially advantaged Harvard graduates born about 1920
According to Vaillant, which of the following behaviors at age 50 were linked to reaching 80 in a good place?
*Not smoking or abusing alcohol *Healthy weight and exercise *Mature adaptations and quality education *Stable marriage
In middle adulthood, affectionate or companionate love increases. This form of love includes which of the following qualities?
*loyalty *security *mutual emotional interest
Which of the following responses to stress are more common among men than women?
*trying to solve the problem themselves *isolating themselves *drinking
According to Levinson, which of the following ages most closely corresponds to the point in adulthood when a person enters the phase of Becoming One's Own Man (BOOM)?
39
At what age does Vaillant see an adult reassessing and recording the truth about the adolescent and adulthood years?
40's
According to Levinson, how long does the transition to middle adulthood last?
5 years
By 2020, experts project that _____ percent of children at 30 years of age will still have living grandparents.
80
Which of the following are some of the main reasons middle-aged and older women gave for initiating a divorce?
Alcohol or drug abuse Cheating Verbal, physical, or emotional abuse
The ______ study found little to support the view that personality universally changes or remains stable from early adolescence through a portion of midlife.
Berkely
What was the name of Daniel Levinson's report on his extensive interviews with middle-aged men?
The Seasons of a Man's Life
George Vaillant asserted that ______ experience a midlife crisis.
a minority of people
Paul Costa and Robert McCrae conducted the ______ Study, which uses the Big Five factors of personality to track adult personality development.
baltimore
Research indicates that personality ______ throughout adulthood, but there is greater ______ in personality during middle adulthood.
changes; stability
The majority of sibling relationships in middle adulthood can be described as ______.
close
Romantic love tends to be stronger in early adulthood, while ______ love tends to be stronger in middle adulthood.
companionate
Compared to younger adults, most individuals in midlife who are married voice ______ with their marriages.
considerable satisfaction
A limitation of the contemporary life-events approach is that it ______.
fails to address daily experiences that may also be a source of stress
When men face stress, they are more likely to respond in a ______ pattern, while women are more likely to respond in a ______ pattern.
fight or flight; tend and befriend
Levinson's The Seasons of a Man's Life supported the notion that men ______.
go through four major conflicts that comprise a midlife crisis
According to Vaillant, which of the following characteristics at the age of 50 was not predictive of being in the "happy-well" category at 75 to 80 years of age?
having wealth and income
As adult children become middle-aged, they often develop more ______ perceptions of their parents.
positive
Women are more likely than women to react to stress with a tend-and-befriend approach, which can involve ______.
seeking social alliances
The Berkeley studies found that the most stable aspects of personality included all of the following, EXCEPT ______.
self-control
According to Erikson, ____________ develops when middle-aged adults sense they have not done anything for the next generation.
stagnation
Which research project studied more than 500 children and their parents in the 1920s and early 1930s and then again as they entered midlife, resulting in the book Present and Past in Middle Life?
the Berkeley longitudinal studies
The process by which, over time, people become more adept at interacting with the environment and in ways that promote increased stability in personality can be described as ______.
the cumulative personality model
Olivia is a 19-year-old college student who hopes to be a physician's assistant in a large medical facility. She plans to be married and have two children by the time she turns 30. Levinson would call this ______.
the dream
True or false. In their Baltimore Study, Costa and McCrae found relative stability in the big five factors of personality across adulthood; however, recent studies have found greater variability over the course of the life span.
true
