ASU Chapter 16: Socioemotional Development in Middle Adulthood

Question 1

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
According to Erikson, _____ is an adult’s desire to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation.

Answer 1

Generativity

Question 2

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
Generativity can be developed in 4 ways, namely..?

Answer 2

• Biological
• Parental
• Work
• Cultural

Question 3

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
According to Levinson’s Seasons of a Man’s Life, this is regarded as the transition from dependence to independence.

Answer 3

Teens

Question 4

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
According to Levinson’s Seasons of a Man’s Life, this age is regarded as a novice phase of adult development.

Answer 4

20s

Question 5

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
According to Levinson’s Seasons of a Man’s Life, this age is regarded as a time for focusing on family and career development.

Answer 5

30s

Question 6

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
According to Levinson’s Seasons of a Man’s Life, this age is regarded as a time of having a stable career, wherein one must now look forward to the kind of life they will lead as a middle-aged adult.

Answer 6

40s

Question 7

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
TRUE or FALSE: A majority of adults experience a midlife crisis.

Answer 7

FALSE, only a minority of adults do.

Question 8

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
An approach focusing on how life events influence an individual’s development, depending on multiple factors such as: the life event itself, life-stage context, and more.

Answer 8

Contemporary-Life Events Approach

Question 9

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
The drawback of the life-events appraoch is that it places too much emphasis on ____, not adequately recognizing _____.

Answer 9

Focuses on change, not recognizing stability.

Question 10

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
A type of behavior men engage in when they experience stress, wherein they socially withdraw, become aggressive, or drink alcohol.

Answer 10

Fight-or-Flight

Question 11

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
A type of behavior women engage in when they experience stress, wherein they seek social alliances with others.

Answer 11

Tend-and-Befriend

Question 12

PERSONALITY THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT:
A timetable according to which individuals are expected to accomplish life’s tasks.

Answer 12

Social Clock

Question 13

STABILITY AND CHANGE:
Longitudinal study focusing on the big five factors of personality.

Answer 13

Costa and McCrae’s Baltimore Study

Question 14

STABILITY AND CHANGE:
Longitudinal study that discovered that intellectual orientation, self-confidence and openness to new experiences were the more stable traits.

Answer 14

Berkeley Longitudinal Studies

Question 15

BIG FIVE FACTORS OF PERSONALITY:
In the context of personality, what does OCEAN stand for?

Answer 15

Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

Question 16

STABILITY AND CHANGE:
A study that discovered the 3 main groups of women, namely: family-oriented, career-oriented, and those with neither path.

Answer 16

Helson’s Mills College Study

Question 17

STABILITY AND CHANGE:
A study that conducted on samples from different types of people (Harvard graduates, inner city men, and intellectually gifted women) born from varying time periods.

Answer 17

George Vaillant’s Studies

Question 18

STABILITY AND CHANGE:
A model suggesting that with time and age, people become more adept at interacting with their environment in ways that promote the stability of personality.

Answer 18

Cumulative Personality Model

Question 19

CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS:
A syndrome characterized by a decrease in marital satisfaction after children leave the home. Sugeesting that parents derive considerable satisfaction from their children.

Answer 19

Empty Nest Syndrome

Question 20

CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS:
Provide the 3 grandparenting styles.

Answer 20

• Formal
• Fun-seeking
• Distant-figure

Question 21

CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS:
Relationships between aging parents and their children are characterized by….?

Answer 21

Ambivalence