Exam 13: Making it in Midlife: The Biopsychosocial Challenges of Middle Adulthood

Adam is going to be taking care of his mother as her health is declining. Her husband is deceased, and Adam has no siblings or spouse to help with the caretaking. Adam loves his mother dearly and wants to help her in her time of need. Which of the following can Adam expect as the caretaking duties continue?

The _________ paradigm is the dominant framework used to study stress, and it involves an emphasis on the transactions that occur between a person and his/her environment.

Ashley is a person whose friends describe her as calm, even-tempered, self-content, comfortable, unemotional, and hardy. According to the Big Five personality trait theory, Ashley would be very

Seth is creating an online profile for a dating website. He describes himself as a person who is very outgoing, who loves social interactions, likes to keep busy, and prefers stimulating and challenging environments. In the Big Five personality trait theory, Seth would probably score high on the ________ dimension.

People who demonstrate the Type B behavior pattern tend to be very belligerent, hostile, aggressive, impulsive, and impatient.

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of the pragmatic of intelligence?

Which dimension of grandparenting includes cultural needs and expectations of what grandparents are to do, such as passing on the family history to the grandchildren?

The primary reason that women show a decline in sexual activity as they get older involves

In Erikson's theory, middle adulthood is occupied by the search for ________. It involves being productive by helping others in order to ensure the continuation of society by guiding the next generation.

Why is it that osteoarthritis would be considered an example of a wear-and-tear disease?

Erikson felt that the search for generativity was a major task of our middle-adulthood years.

Research by Srivastava and colleagues (2003) found that of the Big Five personality traits, ________ increased the most during people's thirties.

Experiencing negative events in life tends to ________ immune functioning in the human body, while experiencing positive events tends to ________ those functions.

Darrelle knows that male pattern baldness runs in his family, and he watches his own hair closely for any signs of thinning. If he is going to start developing this condition, where should he expect to see the earliest signs of hair loss?

________ intelligence refers to the broad range of skills that relate to how individuals shape, select, or adapt to their physical and social environments.

Contrary to popular belief, getting gray hair and wrinkles is not a universal consequence of aging, and they are physical changes that only happen to about 40% of older adults.

________ to experience is one of the Big Five, and it refers to a person who has a vivid imagination and healthy dream life, an appreciation of art, and a willingness to try anything once.

A major biological process during which women, usually in their mid-life years, pass from being reproductive to being non-reproductive is called the ________.

Why is it that adults in the sandwich generation may feel more stress than adults at other age periods?

In McAdams' model, generativity is derived, in part, from the formation of a life story, or a narrative.