Exam 13: Methods of Therapy: Ways of Helping

Describe what menopause and the climacteric are and discuss how they affect women in middle adulthood.

The Seattle Longitudinal Study found that each of the following factors to contribute to intellectual functioning across the life-span EXCEPT ______.

Alzheimer's disease is a normal part of aging.

Most parents suffer from the empty-nest syndrome when the youngest child leaves home.

Allen is 19 years old. He feels like his whole life is a series of trips down one blind alley after another. He blindly follows his more dominant peers in an effort to "find himself," with little success. He is experiencing what Erikson would call ______.

Chuck is 25 years old. According to Erikson's theory, with which of the following is he MOST likely to be struggling?

Among the elderly, ______.

Describe personality and social development in late adulthood, and explain how the living arrangements of most elderly people differ from the stereotypes about them.

Women in the United States outlive men by ______.

Which of the following will NOT promote competence in children?

Compared to younger adults, older adults tend to focus ______ on positives in life and tend to remember more ______ experiences.

For most people, the years between 40 and 60 are reasonably stable, in terms of physical development.

Alvin has recently retired. After a flurry of activity, his schedule has slowed down and he has now discovered that many of the activities he fantasized about before retirement are less stimulating then he thought they would be. He is in the ______ stage of retirement.

The period of turmoil or upheaval that adolescents may experience as they come to grapple with questions about their occupational choice and direction in life is what Erikson called ______.

Sheehy argues that women enter midlife at about age ______.

Describe the effects of gender, ethnicity, and social class on aging, and explain why those differences exist.

The majority of people over age 65 suffer from Alzheimer's disease.

Many elderly are likely to use more spice on their foods because ______.

Levinson's term for the overriding drive of youth to become someone important, to leave one's mark on history, is ______.

Nick is 78 years old. According to Erikson's theory, he is most likely struggling with ______.