Chapter 10-12

Question 1

Emerging childhood

Answer 1

Period between late teens and mid to late twenties when individuals are not adolescents but are not yet fully adults

Question 2

Rites of passage

Answer 2

Rituals marking initiation into adulthood

Question 3

Role transitions

Answer 3

Movement into the next stage of development marked by assumption of new responsibilities and duties

Question 4

Returning adult students

Answer 4

College student over age 25

Question 5

Edgework

Answer 5

Desire to live life more on the edge, boundary between life and death

Question 6

Intimacy vs. isolation

Answer 6

Erickson’s sixth stage that deals with psychological task for young adults

Question 7

Binge drinking

Answer 7

Type of drinking defined for men as consuming five or more drinks in a row and for women consuming four or more drinks

Question 8

Addiction

Answer 8

Physical dependence on a substance such that withdrawal symptoms are experienced when deprived of that substance

Question 9

Metabolism

Answer 9

How much energy the body needs

Question 10

Low density lipoproteins(LDLS)

Answer 10

Chemicals that cause fatty deposits to accumulate in arteries impeding blood flow

Question 11

High density lipoprotein (HDLS)

Answer 11

Chemicals that help keep arteries clear and break down LDLs

Question 12

Body mass index (BMI)

Answer 12

Ratio of body weight and height related to total body fat

Question 13

Multidimensional

Answer 13

Characteristics of theories of intelligence that identify several types of intellectual abilities

Question 14

Multidirectionality

Answer 14

Developmental pattern in which some aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects decline during adulthood

Question 15

Inter-individual variability

Answer 15

Patterns of change that vary from one person to another

Question 16

Plasticity

Answer 16

Concept that intellectual abilities are not fixed but can be modified under the right conditions at just about any point in adulthood

Question 17

Primary mental abilities

Answer 17

Groups of related intellectual skills (such as memory or spatial ability)

Question 18

Secondary mental abilities

Answer 18

Broader intellectual skills that subsume and organize the primary abilities

Question 19

Fluid intelligence

Answer 19

Abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker and enable you to understand the relations among concepts

Question 20

Crystallized intelligence

Answer 20

The knowledge you have acquired through life experiences and education in a particular culture

Question 21

Post formal thought

Answer 21

Thinking characterized by recognizing that the correct answer varies from one situation to another

Question 22

Reflective judgement

Answer 22

Way in which adults reason through real life dilemmas

Question 23

Lifespan construct

Answer 23

Unified sense of the past,present, and future based on person experience and input from other people

Question 24

Scenario

Answer 24

Manifestation of the lifespan construct through expectations about the future

Question 25

Social clock

Answer 25

Tagging future events with a particular time or age by which they are to be completed

Question 26

Life story

Answer 26

A personal narrative that organizes past events into a coherent sequence

Question 27

Possible selves

Answer 27

Representation of what we could become what we would like to become and what we are afraid of becoming

Question 28

Personal control beliefs

Answer 28

The degree to which you believe your performance in a situation depends on something you do

Question 29

Primary control

Answer 29

Behavior aimed at affecting the individual's external work

Question 30

Secondary control

Answer 30

Behavior or cognition aimed at affecting the individual's internal world

Question 31

Assortative mating

Answer 31

Theory stating that people find partners based on their similarities to each other

Question 32

Abusive relationship

Answer 32

Relationships in which once person becomes aggressive toward the partner

Question 33

Battered woman syndrome

Answer 33

Situation occurring when a woman believes that she cannot leave the abusive situation and may even go so far as to kill her abuser

Question 34

Cohabitation

Answer 34

People in commuted intimate sexual relationships who live together but are not married

Question 35

Marital success

Answer 35

Umbrella term referring to any marital outcome

Question 36

Marital quality

Answer 36

Subjective evaluation of the couple's relationship on a number of different dimensions

Question 37

Marital adjustment

Answer 37

Degree to which a husband and wife accommodate to each other over a certain period of time

Question 38

Marital satisfaction

Answer 38

Global assessment of one's marriage

Question 39

Homogamy

Answer 39

Similarity of value and interests

Question 40

Exchange theory

Answer 40

Relationship such as marriage based on each partner contributing something to the relationship that the other would be hard pressed to provide

Question 41

Vulnerability stress adaptation model

Answer 41

Model that proposes that marital quality is a dynamic process resulting from the couple's ability to handle stressful events in the context of their particular vulnerabilities and resources

Question 42

Nuclear family

Answer 42

Most common form of family in western societies consisting only of parents and children

Question 43

Extended family

Answer 43

Most common form of family around the world one in which grandparents and other relatives live with parents and children

Question 44

Familism

Answer 44

Idea that the family's well being takes precedence over the concerns of individuals family members

Question 45

Covenant marriage

Answer 45

Expands the marriage contract to a life long commitment between the partners within a supportive community

Question 46

Marriage education

Answer 46

Idea that the more couples are prepared for marriage the better the relationship will survive over the long run

Question 47

Collaborative divorce

Answer 47

Couples who want to negotiate a resolution of their situation rather than have a ruling imposed on them by a court or arbitrator