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Question 1

Define Menopause

Answer 1

Women stop menstruating, have not had a period for 12 months

Question 2

Average age of menopause

Answer 2

51

Question 3

John Horn is known for

Answer 3

cross-sectional studies, Crystallized Intelligence

Question 4

Define John Horn’s Crystallized intelligence

Answer 4

A person’s accumulated information and verbal skills, increases in midlife

Question 5

Pertaining to John Horn’s Crystallized Intelligence, define Fluid intelligence

Answer 5

The ability to think logically and solve problems in new situations, decreases in midlife

Question 6

What is Warner Schaie known for

Answer 6

Seattle Longitudinal Study

Question 7

Describe Seattle Longitudinal Study

Answer 7

Effects of aging on intelligence, midlife is the time of peak performance in 4 of the 6 intellectual skills

Question 8

4 Intellectual skills in the Seattle Longitudinal Study

Answer 8

verbal comprehension, verbal memory, spatial orientation, inductive reasoning

Question 9

National Survey of the Changing Workforce (NSCW)

4 changes of the workforce

Answer 9

• Jobs are less secure now
• Jobs are not 9-5 anymore now
• People work more hours on the job now
• Instead of staying home, women work outside the house now

Question 10

Define Generativity

Answer 10

Finding meaning in life through nurturing the next generation

Question 11

Generativity leads to what

Answer 11

higher eudaimonic happiness (having purpose and meaning)

Question 12

Define higher eudaimonic happiness

Answer 12

having purpose and meaning

Question 13

Four factors of generativity

Answer 13

Biological (having children)

Parental (parent children)

Work (passing on skills)

Culture (passing on culture)

Question 14

Define biological generativity

Answer 14

having children

Question 15

Define parental generativity

Answer 15

parenting children

Question 16

Define work generativity

Answer 16

passing on skills

Question 17

Define culture generativity

Answer 17

passing on culture

Question 18

Describe Levinson:

Qualitative research on midlife

Answer 18

in-depth interviews with 40 men and biographic information from famous men.
Outcome: midlife=crisis

Question 19

Describe Vaillant (the Grant Study)

Answer 19

Quantitative research on 268 men, longitudinally studied over 75 years and ongoing.
Outcome: midlife ≠ crisis

Question 20

Main outcome of the Grant Study

Answer 20

warmth of relationships has the greatest positive impact on life satisfaction

Question 21

Most research and developmental experts say that midlife is what

Answer 21

NOT a crisis for the majority of people

Question 22

Strategies for parents/children related to empty nest syndrome

Answer 22

• Discuss splits for bills and household work
• Parents treat children as adults and let go of parenting role
• Children should negotiate expectations of their behavior with their parents before moving in and set a deadline for moving out

Question 23

From 2001 to 2011, was there an increase of decrease in young adults living at home

Answer 23

increase all 18-24 and 18-34 categories

Question 24

Summary of getting stuck in the negative video

Answer 24

Research on feeling happy in old age, three studies randomly assigned people to two groups, described procedure/governor in terms of success and failure, failure was stickier than success, “loss frame” is stickier, we have to work harder to see the upside of things, writing about happiness and talking about happiness makes people happier