Human Growth & Development Exam 7 Quiz Questions - SBU Maloney

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

age identity

Which of the following places individuals on a continuum from trusting to suspicious?

agreeableness

The age structure of the population used to be represented by a pyramid and is now represented by a triangle. The change represents:

an increasing number of older adults as compared to children

In Vaillant's longitudinal study, factors at age 50 that were linked with being in the "happy-well" group at age 75 to 80 years of age included all of the following EXCEPT:

being wealthy

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

reaction-time task

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

a tend and befriend pattern

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

accommodation

The level of cholesterol in the blood increases through the adult years and in midlife begins to accumulate on the artery walls, increasing the risk of:

cardiovascular disease

________ is a term that is used to describe the midlife transition in which fertility declines.

climacteric

The majority of sibling relationships in adulthood are:

close

A decrease in marital satisfaction after children leave home, because parents derive considerable satisfaction from their children.

empty nest syndrome

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

In personality research aiming to predict future well-being, ________ tends to be more positive years later, and ________ tends to be more negative years later.

extraversion; neuroticism

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

When men face stress, they are more likely to respond in a:

fight or flight manner

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.

generatively;intimacy

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

have been exaggerated

Sleep deprivation in middle-age has been linked to all of the following EXCEPT:

improved cogntiive functioning

According to research on intergenerational relationships, in which of the following ways is an adult child most likely to be similar to his or her parents?

in politics

A man in his mid-forties is MOST likely to notice:

joint stiffness

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

novice

In the Berkeley Longitudinal Studies, which of the following characteristics generally changed the most across time for the adult?

nurturance or hostility

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

optimism

According to Viktor Frankl, the three most distinct human qualities are freedom, responsibility, and:

spirituality

Sarcopenia is especially marked in:

the back and legs

Which of the following is one of the reasons why many middle-aged workers are delaying retirement plans?

the decline in defined-benefit pensions