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Question 1

Social clock

Answer 1

The concept that we regulate our passage through adulthood by an inner timetable that tells us which life activities are appropriate at certain ages

Question 2

unique social-clock pressures that affect emerging adults.

Answer 2

Emerging adults are told when they should be dating or when they should be in college or have a job

Question 3

factors that correlate with successful relationships

Answer 3

Secure adult attachment:
* Definition: capable of
genuine intimacy in
relationships
* Signs: empathic, sensitive,
able to reach out
emotionally; balances own
needs with those of
partner; has affectionate,
caring interactions;
probably in a loving,
long-term relationship

Question 4

factors that correlate with relationships that fail

Answer 4

Avoidant/dismissive insecure attachment:
* Definition: unable to get close in relationships
* Signs: uncaring, aloof, emotionally distant; unresponsive to
loving feelings; abruptly disengages at signs of involvement;
unlikely to be in a long-term relationship

Question 5

impact of children on a relationship.

Answer 5

-Parenthood makes couples less intimate and happy
-If the couple is heterosexual, parenthood produces more traditional (and
potentially conflict-ridden) marital roles.
(after
having children, a woman may leave her job or reduce her hours at work)

Question 6

boundaries of middle age

Answer 6

-middle age span about age 40 to the
early sixties, many older adults describe themselves as middle
aged. Personality, specifically neuroticism, predicts whether midlife adults have an upbeat or gloomy view of the future.

Question 7

three contradictory views about how personality changes with age.

Answer 7

-One is that we don’t change
-entering new life stages
-having life-changing experiences, propels emotional growth

Question 8

generativity

Answer 8

 Erikson’s theory, the seventh psychosocial task

• People in midlife find meaning in nurturing the next generation, caring for others, or enriching the lives of others through their work.
• When midlife adults have not achieved generativity, they feel stagnant, without a sense of purpose in life.

Question 9

Crystalized intelligence skills

Answer 9

Accumulated knowledge
 Tends to increase with age, until later life
 Then begins to fall

Question 10

Fluid intelligence skills

Answer 10

Ability to reason quickly when facing
totally new intellectual tasks
 Linked to nervous system
 Flynn effect
 Because of this link, begins to decline early in adult life

Question 11

Process and outcome of menopause

Answer 11

• Menopause can indirectly affect sexuality;
  declining estrogen produces changes in
  reproductive tract.
  -Sexual desire declines in late middle age, but sex lives often improve after menopause.

Question 12

psychological and physiological issues related to sex in middle adult life

Answer 12

 Men experience changes in erection ability;
women are still orgasmic.
 Women are more likely to be turned off to sex.

Question 13

importance of constructing an adult life

Answer 13

Helps to prepare one for what’s to come. Education, marriage, etc.

Question 14

various features of emerging adulthood.

Answer 14

testing out different possibilities and developing
the self.
(ex): Emerging adults live
alone or with friends, stay with their parents or move far away. For some emerging
adults, constructing an adult life takes decades

Question 15

gender differences in the nest-leaving experience.

Answer 15

Southern Europe it’s not popular to leave the nest. Northern Europe, it’s encouraged. In the US, it varies all over.

Question 16

challenge of finding a career for emerging adults.

Answer 16

With so many US young people steering clear of college, it makes the job search very difficult. However, even with a degree now, it can be difficult because of the demand for jobs. School-to-work transitions can also stand in the way, as can finding the “flow”
-“ability to love ones work”
-everyone has goals of achieving high
-most hard working people encounter trouble childhood

Question 17

three pathways to death

Answer 17

1) death occurs suddenly; 2) death occurs after steady decline in health; and 3) death occurs after a long and difficult struggle, typically due to illness.

Question 18

why it is harder to accept a death that has happened “off time” in terms of our social clock.

Question 19

reasons why caregivers have an important role in easing the pain and suffering of the patient and his/her family.

Question 20

concept of a “good death”.

Question 21

why “end-of-life care instruction” should be a component of every health professional’s training.

Question 22

body image issues associated with middle adulthood.

Answer 22

 Feeling physically appealing is important to
happiness at every age for men and women.
 Body-image issues affect vulnerable midlife
women.

Question 23

process and outcome of menopause

Answer 23

-estrogen production falls, the cycle becomes irregular
-Perimenopause: physical symptoms, such as night sweats and hot flashes
-Postmenopause: vaginal walls thin out and become more fragile. The vagina shortens, and its
opening narrows
-Effects on desire: Women won’t want sexual intercourse