PSYC: Chapter 10b

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Which is NOT a tip for making college a flow zone?

Avoid speaking with your professors outside of class.

_____ is a focused state of total absorption in a challenging, goal-oriented activity.

Flow

Which nation offers a well-structured school-to-work transition?

Germany

Early in psychology's history, the psychoanalytic pioneer _____ stated that ideal mental health consists of the ability to love and work.

Sigmund Freud

Which statement regarding teens' tendency to entertain high career aspirations is true?

The adolescent tendency to entertain unrealistic career aspirations varies little with socioeconomic status.

Which statement about people in satisfying relationships is FALSE?

They pick people who have different values and goals.

Which set of attachment characteristics contains an item that does NOT belong?

empathic, secure, likely to be in a successful long-term relationship, jealous

Hillary feels bored and distracted as she tackles a copy-editing assignment. In Csikszentmihalyi's terms, Hillary _____ experiencing the state he called ______.

is not; flow

Eugene is 27 years old, and he feels very insecure about some of the personal and career choices he has made. Consequently, he is reluctant to undertake a serious, committed relationship with another person. Based on Erikson's theory, Eugene may develop a sense of _____.

isolation

People who see their partner as _____ have better relationships over time.

outgoing and emotionally stable

Alice takes her 1-year-old son, Derek, to visit an infant-toddler program in which she hopes to enroll him. Derek eagerly explores the room as long as Alice is present. When Alice leaves the room to fill out some forms, Derek becomes somewhat upset. When she returns, though, Derek quickly calms down. Which term best describes Derek's attachment style?

secure

You are at a bar and want to dance. As you scan the bar, you think to yourself, "Too heavy ... too old ... doesn't look clean ..." This behavior reflects the _____ phase of Bernard Murstein's mate-selection process

stimulus

As of 2012, a person with a master's degree earned about _____ compared to a person whose highest level of education was high school.

twice as much

About _____ U.S. teenagers enroll in college after high school.

two in three

Emily will be happiest with a mate if she chooses someone _____.

whose personality she adores

In a study described in the text, Csikszentmihalyi and Schneider (2000) labeled young people as _____ if they enjoyed being productive and mastering challenging tasks.

workers


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