Exam 13: Adulthood: Psychosocial Development

What needs do long-term partners meet?

Although household _____ have increased significantly over the past 50 years, overall happiness has not.

As people age, their friendships tend to:

A child's _____ at age 3 can predict some behaviors in adulthood.

The group of people who move through life with an individual providing protection and encouragement is his or her social convoy.

Genes do not exert the only influence on personality. Therefore,:

What factors might make it difficult for foster children and foster parents to bond?

Although Erikson's stages of psychosocial development are sequential, the search for identity that begins in the stage of identity versus role diffusion:

What innovations in work scheduling have helped families? What innovations have hurt families?

What evidence is there that political and cultural attitudes toward same-sex partnerships are changing?

One study on the impact of changing employment found that people who changed jobs frequently before age 36 were _____ times more likely to have various health problems by age 42.

Discuss three ways that employment can meet generativity needs in adulthood. How does a person's perspective on employment-particularly the extrinsic and intrinsic benefits of work-change with age and maturity?

When a factory closed, Benito has lost his job of 20 years. He is 39 years old. Finding a new job will be stressful because:

Since they are called on to help both the older and younger generations of the family, middle-aged adults have been called the:

When is it better to divorce than to stay married?

The primary form that generativity takes is:

Erikson argued that often the responsibilities of adulthood make adults _____ rather than stagnant.

According to Erikson, when individuals are productive in an unselfish and caring way, they are demonstrating:

Today, few developmentalists believe that the changes of middle age produce a midlife crisis.

When they care for both older and younger generations, the middle-aged have been called the ______ generation.