ch. 14 quiz

It has been two weeks since Brianna's husband left her for someone else. She knows that this divorce will be a life-changing event for her. Even though she is distressed, she has coped with difficult things in the past, and is sure she will recover from this, too. The contemporary life-events approach would consider her appraisal to be:

an adaptation factor.

Whereas ________ is important in new relationships, especially in young adulthood, ________ becomes more important in middle adulthood.

passion; security

A recent study by Specht, Egloff, and Schukle found that conscientiousness showed a continuous increase from early adulthood to late adulthood.

True

When women experience stress, they are more likely to engage in:

a tend and befriend pattern.

D'Angelo and his wife just had their last child move out of the house. They had lived vicariously through their children, letting their sports activities and various achievements dominate their lives. Now they may experience the ______ _______ _______ (3 words), which includes a decline in marital satisfaction after children leave the home.

empty nest syndrome

Erikson's proposed developmental stage that middle-aged adults face is termed:

generativity versus stagnation.

Adult development experts are virtually unanimous in their belief that midlife crises:

have been exaggerated.

Levinson sees the twenties as a(n) ________ phase of adult development.

novice

Researchers increasingly are finding that ________ is linking to being healthier and living longer.

optimism

As he looks back over his life, Chris realizes that his work was not as important to him as he believed, and that he lost too much valuable time with his children. If he could do it over again, he would work less and spend more time with his children. According to Erikson, Chris is experiencing some degree of:

stagnation