Ch 16 Social and Personality Development in Middle Adulthood Flashcards
What is the generativity vs stagnation stage?
The seventh of Erikson’s stages, in which middle-aged adults find meaning in contributing to the development of younger individuals.
What does generativity mean?
A sense that one is making a valuable contribution to society by bringing up children or mentoring younger people.
What is the life events approach?
A theoretical perspective on middle adulthood that focuses on normative and non-normative events and how adults in this age group respond to them.
What is role conflict?
Any situation in which two or more roles are at least partially incompatible, either because they call for different behaviors or because their separate demands add up to more hours than there are in a day.
What are multigenerational caregivers?
Middle-aged adults who are caring both for elderly parents and young adult children at the same time, also called the sandwich generation.
What is caregiver burden?
The cumulative negative effects of caring for an elderly or disabled person.
What is burnout?
Lack of energy, exhaustion, and pessimism that results from chronic stress.
What are embryonic stem cells?
Undifferentiated cells found in the zygote and blastocyst that are capable of indefinite self-replication and differentiation into specialized cells.
What are somatic/adult stem cells?
Non-embryonic stem cells found in differentiated tissue that are capable of self-replicating and differentiating into the kind of tissue from which they originated.
