chapter 12 PS

Question 1

a strong feeling for potential or actual life partner involving intense arousal and longing for joining with the other

Answer 1

passionate love

Question 2

a caring and desire for another person with whom our lives intertwine. it emphasizes intimacy and concern for the other

Answer 2

compassionate love

Question 3

the tendency to find a mate who is similar to oneself in one or more dimensions

Answer 3

assortive mating

Question 4

the tendency to find a mate who is different from oneself in one or more dimensions

Answer 4

complementary selection

Question 5

those jobs or careers dealing with work that must respond to definite requirements of land or objects (farmer, mechanic)

Answer 5

realistic occupations

Question 6

those jobs or careers involving the investigation of information, or exploration of new ideas or possibilities

Answer 6

investigative occupations

Question 7

those jobs or careers stressing communication, creativity, art and entertainment

Answer 7

artistic occupations

Question 8

those jobs or careers involving working with people, including social workers, managers, and therapists

Answer 8

social occupations

Question 9

those jobs or careers involving the influencing of others, including salespeople, politicians, and entrepreneurs

Answer 9

enterprising occupations

Question 10

those jobs or careers involving work with numbers and letters, including secretaries, bookkeepers, accountants, and engineers

Answer 10

conventional occupations

Question 11

a law of productivity of the members of a given field that states that the square root of the total will account for half the productivity

Answer 11

Lotka-Price Law

Question 12

a personality type that emphasizes time pressure, competitiveness, achievement striving, impatience, and hostility, and that has been related to heart disease and high professional attainment

Answer 12

type A personality

Question 13

adults interested in both practical attainments and personal improvement

Answer 13

achievers

Question 14

adults interested in practical attainment

Answer 14

conservers

Question 15

adults interested in personal and spiritual self-development

Answer 15

seekers

Question 16

adults who are no longer seeking further goals in life

Answer 16

depleteds

Question 17

a manual of psychiatric diagnoses published by the American Psychiatric Association and providing the descriptions of mental disorders recognized by law in the USA

Answer 17

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)

Question 18

a scientific movement to identify the positive strengths in individual’s personalities

Answer 18

positive psychology

Question 19

the state of a person who is able to develop his or her innermost self in a healthy fashion that represents, expresses, and satisfies his or her true needs and characteristics

Answer 19

self-actualized

Question 20

an altered state of consciousness in which one’s awareness appears to merge with a cosmic consciousness, and an individual feels at one with the surrounding environment or universe

Answer 20

peak experience

Question 21

a type of humor employed by the self-actualized that gently pokes fun at the oddities and commonalities of the human experience

Answer 21

philisophical humor

Question 22

an attitude of caring concern for the rest of humanity that leads to a desire to help others in one’s life projects; considered to be a quality of the self-actualized person

Answer 22

Gemeinschaftsgefuhl