Development Quiz 2

Question 1

Early Adulthood: developmental tasks, psychosocial crisis, central process, adaptive ego quality, and core pathology

Answer 1

Tasks: Exploring Intimate Rel., childbearing, work, lifestyle
Crisis: Intimacy vs. Isolation 
Central Process: mutuality among peers
Adaptive Ego Qual: love
Core Path: jealousy/exclusivity

Question 2

Middle Adulthood: developmental tasks, psychosocial crisis, central process, adaptive ego quality, and core pathology

Answer 2

Developmental tasks:career managem, nurturing intimate relationship, expanding caring rela., managing household
psychosocial crisis: generativity vs. stagnation
central process: person-environment interaction creativity
adaptive ego qual: moral fortitude
core path: unwillingness to embrace others/rejectivity

Question 3

Later Adulthood: developmental tasks, psychosocial crisis, central process, adaptive ego quality, and core pathology

Answer 3

dev. tasks: accepting one’s life, promoting intellectual vigor, redirect energy new roles & activities, dev. point of view on death
psychosocial crisis: integrity vs. despair
central process: introspection
adaptive ego qual: wisdom
core pathology: disdain

Question 4

Elderhood: developmental tasks, psychosocial crisis, central process, adaptive ego quality, and core pathology

Answer 4

developmental tasks: coping with the phys changes of aging, dev a psychosocial history perspective, traveling uncharted territory
psychosocial crisis: immortality vs. extinction
central process: social support
adaptive ego quality: confidence
core pathology: diffidence ( overwhelming self-doubt)

Question 5

Major Concepts of Adulthood (3)

Answer 5

Social Roles- identities indiv assume to express & make sense of social demands they’re exper. -kinship, fam, occupation

Life Course- integrating work and fam over time- 1.trajectory: path life exp. take them(marr., kids) 2. transition-connected to life exp.

Fulfillment Theories- 1. competence 2. self-acceptance 3. self actualization: purposeful, goal;-oriented striving, comfort. putting self in challenging sit.

Question 6

Selman (2005)- factors that contribute to longevity

Answer 6

motivation to live
appropriate diet
medical attention 
intense physical activity 
cultural activities 
health environment

Question 7

Kubler-Ross and her work on death and dying

Answer 7

KR: her work set the stage for our modern conceptualization of death and dying

death, dying and bereavement:

• Definitions of Death: brain, cardio, veg, etc.
• Process of Dying: doesn’t happen suddenly, “leading up to”
• Death-Related Rituals: tied to culture, very imp.
• Bereavement and Grief: (ber)long term adj. more encompassing, (grief) role loss, reevaluation of social st., role ref., loss of int. rel.
• Psychosocial Growth through Bereavement: re-eval and re-interp several stages, eval scripts and re-interp them at this time

Question 8

Relationship between psychosocial crisis of Early Adulthood and psychosocial crisis of Infancy

Answer 8

Connects to attachment in trust v. mistrust – must be resolved as an infant or revisited to be understood in order to accomplish developmental task of intimate relationships

Question 9

Death and dying-SA

Answer 9

 What role does mortality play in psychosocial development?
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 When is this role most pronounced?
o Middle adulthood
 What is the relationship between psychosocial growth and bereavement?
o Evaluate scripts and give client opportunity to reinterpret scripts - ???