human growth and development week 7

Middle-aged partners are more likely to view their marriage as positive if they:

engage in mutual activities

Individuals who had a high level of allostatic load (wearing down of the body's systems in response to high stress levels) exhibited difficulties in:

episodic memory

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

a tend and befriend pattern.

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

novice

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

passion; security

The Seattle Longitudinal Study concluded that middle age is a time of:

peak performance for verbal ability.

Accommodation of the eye experiences its sharpest decline between

40-59 years of age

According to Levinson, one of the changes to middle adulthood requires that the adult male come to grips with four major conflicts. Which of the following is NOT one of these major conflicts?

Being attractive versus being unattractive

Which of the following places individuals on a continuum from disciplined to impulsive?

Conscientiousness

According to Levinson, which of the following is a major task that needs to be mastered in early adulthood?

Developing a stable life structure

Which of the following statements about novices and experts is TRUE?

Experts process more information automatically than novices.

The ability to focus and maintain an image on the retina is referred to as ________ of the eye.

accommodation

Questions such as, "To which age group do you belong?" and "How old do you feel?" reflect the concept of:

age identity

Vaillant's research showed that at age 50, the best predictors of who would be dead at 75 to 80 years of age were:

alcohol abuse and smoking.

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

conscientiousness

Leading Finnish research Clas-Hakan Nygard concluded from his longitudinal research that work effectively peaks in middle adulthood for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

fewer demands at home

George Vaillant concludes that the ________ are a decade of reassessing and recording the truth about the adolescent and adulthood years.

forties

According to George Vaillant's longitudinal studies, ________ in middle-age was more strongly related than ________ to whether individuals would have an enduring and happy marriage at 75 to 80 years of age.

generativity; intimacy

Sensitivity to ________ sounds usually declines first among ________.

high pitched, men

The results from an 18-year longitudinal study revealed that the longevity gap between African American and non-Latino white men is linked to:

higher marriage rates for non-Latino white men.

Many experts on middle adulthood describe the age period of 55 to 65 as:

late midlife

A common complaint voiced by both adult children and their parents when adult children return home is a(n):

loss of privacy.

All of the following have been found to be stress reducing EXCEPT:

marital separation.

According to Lachman, researchers have found that on average a sense of personal control peaks in ________.

midlife

Park suggested that religion may influence health in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

providing answers to existential questions.

Which of the following is a common way to assess speed of information processing?

reaction time tasks