Exam 14: Middle Adulthood: Physical, Cognitive, Social and Personality Growth

Levinson (1986) devised a theory of career development that subdivides working life into nine stages.

In a study of employed Australian adults, Smart and Peterson (1997) discovered that progress through Super's (1990) stages of career development was slower for adults who had voluntarily given up one career in order to embark on a second career that was very different from the first.

Husbands and wives who have been married for five to 10 years encounter a/an ______________ in marital satisfaction, whether or not they have children, although parenting adds independently to the severity of the decline in marital quality.

According to Feeney et al. (1994), approximately one- third of Australian wives felt exploited in regards to domestic rewards and contributions during the childrearing and launching stages.

The struggle to devote oneself full time to a career and to a family can be a source of stress and frustration , leading to ______________, or the feeling that one has neither time nor energy enough to do either job properly.

Which of the following is not considered a disadvantage of child care outside the home, according to Australian parents?

fMRI studies by study by Wang (2007) found that male and female brains reacted differently to mild levels of cognitive and emotional stress. Male brains had increased blood flow in the right prefrontal cortex and decreased flow in the left prefrontal cortex during stress. Females during the same stressful cognitive task had changes in blood flow in the limbic system.

Which of the following stages is in Levinson's (1986) era of middle adulthood?

At what age is there typically an increase in systolic blood pressure due to decreasing elasticity of blood vessels?

Colcombe et al. (2006), found that physical exercise could not serve to enrich and enhance the functioning of the adult brain in areas such as executive functioning skills.

Almost ______________ of two- parent households where there are dependent children now have both spouses in the labour force.

Antill and Cotton (1987) found that husbands and wives who scored higher in ______________ sex- role orientations on Sandra Bem's (1975) androgyny measure communicated more intimately and effectively. They were consequently happier with their marriage.

Maslach and Leiter (2008) discovered that the two early warning signals of impending burnout are exhaustion and cynicism.

Which of the following is true about couples with children as compared to their childless counterparts?

Between the ages of 20 and 60, employed adults typically spend ______________ of their waking hours on their job.

From the age of 45 and onwards, males agree that 'sexual satisfaction is important to my present quality of life' ______________ often than females.

According to Myers (2000), the percentage of individuals who are married and are happy is less than that of their peers who have never married.

One way of resolving the ______________ crisis is to drop out of the old career and embark on a new and totally different line of work.

The ______________or (______________) theory of leisure suggests that workers select recreational activities that offer satisfactions which they cannot access via their job.

During Havighurst's (1964) ____________________________ phase, the worker is preoccupied not only with mastering vocational skills and ascending the career ladder in the direction of higher occupational status, success and seniority, but also with an inward struggle to stabilise his or her vocational self- definition and to gain a better understanding of personal talents and incapacities.