CH16 - PsychSoc M.Adulthood

Question 1

Erikson’s seventh stage of psychosocial development, in which the middle-aged adult develops a concern with establishing, guiding, and influencing the next generation or else experiences stagnation (a sense of inactivity or lifelessness).

Answer 1

generativity versus stagnation

Question 1

Erikson’s term for concern of mature adults for finding meaning through contributing to society and leaving a legacy for future generations.

Answer 1

generativity

Question 2

In some normative-crisis models, stressful life period precipitated by the review and reevaluation of one’s past,

typically occurring in the early to middle forties.

Answer 2

midlife crisis

Question 3

this term refers to the psychological transitions that involve
significant change or transformation in the perceived meaning, purpose, or direction of a person’s life.

Answer 3

turning point

Question 4

this term refers to the introspective examination that often
occurs in middle age, leading to reappraisal and revision of values and priorities.

Answer 4

midlife review

Question 5

this term refers to the ability to adapt flexibly and resourcefully to potential sources of stress.

Answer 5

ego-resiliency

Question 6

Whitbourne’s theory of identity development based on processes of
assimilation and accommodation.

Answer 6

identity process theory (IPT)

Question 7

this term refers to the accumulated perceptions of the self shaped by incoming information from intimate relationships, work-related situations, and community and other experiences.

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identity schemas

Question 8

Whitbourne’s term for effort to fit newexperience into an existing
self-concept.

Answer 8

identity assimilation

Question 9

Whitbourne’s term for a tendency to balance assimilation and
accommodation.

Answer 9

identity balance

Question 10

Theory, proposed by Kahn and Antonucci, that people move through
life surrounded by concentric circles of intimate relationships on which they rely for assistance, well-being, and social support.

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social convoy theory

Question 11

Theory, proposed by Carstensen, that people select social contacts on the basis of the changing relative importance of social interaction as a source of information, as an aid in developing and maintaining a self-concept, and as a source of emotional
well-being.

Answer 11

socioemotional selectivity theory

Question 12

this term refers to the financial and emotional benefits built up during a long-standing marriage, which tend to hold a couple together.

Answer 12

marital capital

Question 13

this term refers to the transitional phase of parenting
following the last child’s leaving the parents’ home.

Answer 13

empty nest

Question 14

this term refers to the tendency for young adults who have
left home to return to their parents’ household in times of financial, marital, or other trouble.

Answer 14

revolving door syndrome

Question 15

In Marcoen’s terminology, normative development of middle age, in which adults learn to balance love and duty to their parents with autonomy within a two-way relationship.

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filial crisis

Question 16

this term refers to the middle-aged adults squeezed by competing needs to raise or launch children and to care for elderly parents.

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sandwich generation

Question 17

this term refers to a condition of physical, mental, and
emotional exhaustion affecting adults who provide continuous care for sick or aged persons.

Answer 17

caregiver burnout

Question 18

this term refers to the substitute supervised care by visiting nurses or home health aides

Answer 18

Respite care

Question 19

what virtue comes from generativity vs stagnation?

Answer 19

care