H5P 8

In Vaillant's approach to defense mechanisms, which of the following is considered intermediate between immature and mature?

Displacement

In the identity status model, emerging adults who are low in exploration but high in commitment to important life areas would be in which identity status?

Foreclosure

As pointed out in socioemotional selectivity theory, people who value the _________ function of their relationships want to seek advice and practical tips from the people with whom they spend time.

Informational

According to socioemotional selectivity theory, people who are reaching the end of time together with each other are more likely to emphasize which aspect of their relationship?

Positive Emotional Bonds

In Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, the idea that older adults, or people thinking about a limited future, show a ___________ in memory.

Positivity Effect

The quality of ____________ describes individuals who are characteristically able to cope with challenging life situations.

Resilience

A 22-year-old college graduate enters a Master's program in social work after having considered several possible majors, ranging from biology to classics. This graduate would be considered to fit into which identity status?

Achieved

A 66-year-old man is a huge fan of his local university's football team. He attends every game, spending several hours tailgating before the game actually begins. When his team wins, he's elated, but when they lose, he cannot control his anger, sometimes going so far as to go outside and throwing rocks into the yar His reaction to defeat, in Vaillant's terms, would be consistent with which defense mechanism?

Acting Out

According to which theory of development do people become more focused on emotional aspects of relationships as they get older?

Life Structure

Which of the following is a myth vs. a fact about personality and aging?

Pessimists report a higher quality of life because they're less likely to be disappointed.

Identity process theory proposes that, ideally, people maintain their sense of self through which process?

Seeking Balance

To obtain data on age and happiness, economists used which type of measure?

Single Rating Scale

You've known one of the closest friends of your parents for almost your entire life, and for that entire time has worked for the same company, lived in the same house, and even travelled to the same vacation spot every summer. You feel that this highly predictable and stable person most closely fits the _____________ pathway, as described in the RALS.

Straight and Narrow

The finding that happiness shows a U-shaped pattern in adulthood, according to critics, fails to take into account which important factor?

Health

What term did Levinson use to describe the pattern of an individual's total situation at one point in time?

Life Structure

Findings from the Veteran Affairs Normative Aging Study showed that men with high scores on a midlife crisis scale had, when they were younger, also had high scores on which personality trait?

Neuroticism

People with a Type __ personality have high levels of anxiety, loneliness, and depression but try to suppress those feelings.

D

According to economists, the shape of happiness in adulthood follows which basic pattern?

Decline then increase

Research on global patterns of happiness show that which types of countries are most likely to show the "U-shaped" effect?

High Income

Erikson proposed that the key psychosocial of midlife involves the ability to achieve a sense of:

generativity