Chap14- Social and Personality Development in Early Adulthood

Question 1

social clock

Answer 1

the culturally determined psychological timepiece providing a sense of whether we have reached the major benchmarks of life at the appropriate time in comparison to our peers

Question 2

Sternberg

Answer 2

Love is made up of 3 components: intimacy, passion, decision/commitment

• Fatuous love: passion and commitment without intimacy, are present
• Consummate love: all three components of love are present
• Companionate love: intimacy and commitment occur jointly
• Romantic love: intimacy + passion, no commitment

Question 3

homogamy

Answer 3

the tendency to marry someone who is similar in age, race, education, religion, and other basic demographic characteristics.

Question 4

marriage gradient

Answer 4

the tendency for men to marry women who are slightly younger, smaller, and lower in status, and women to marry men who are slightly older, larger, and higher in status.

Question 5

John Holland’s personality type theory

Answer 5

certain personality types match particularly well with certain careers. If the correspondence between personality and career is good, people will enjoy their careers more

Question 6

marriage age

Answer 6

male 28

female 26

Question 7

divorce

Answer 7

tend to decline after the 5th year of marriage

Question 8

Characteristics of a happy marriage

Answer 8

social homogamy, sharing leisure activities, similar interests, agreement on the distribution of roles

Question 9

replacement level

Answer 9

the number of children that one generation must produce to be able to replenish its number

Question 10

Ginzberg’s career choice theory

Answer 10

• fantasy period: last until abt 11; career choices are made without regard to skills, abilities,…
• tentative period: 2nd stage- spas adolescence, people begin to think in pragmatic terms about the requirements of various jobs and how their own abilities might fit with them
• realistic period: 3rd stage- early adulthood- ppl begin to explore specific career options, either through actual experience on the job or through training for a profession, then narrow their choices and make a commitment

Question 11

friendship

Answer 11

basic need for belongingness that leads people in early adulthood to establish and maintain at min rela with others

Question 12

glass ceiling

Answer 12

a metaphor used to represent an invisible barrier that keeps a given demographic from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy.