Exam 13: Making It in Midlife: The Unique Challenges of Middle Adulthood.

In the normal course of female development, menopause precedes the climacteric.

Kinkeepers serve the purpose of keeping family members who are fighting or experiencing conflict away from each other.

Fluid intelligence is to the ____ of intelligence as crystallized intelligence is to the ____ of intelligence.​

A person who is high on the neuroticism trait will tend to be anxious, hostile, self-conscious, depressed, impulsive, and vulnerable.

As Dr. Benton is looking at an X-ray of bones in your leg, his comment, ____, would indicate that you may have osteoporosis.

In terms of stability in personality traits, there appear to be increases in _____ aspects of personality with increasing age.

"I just don't seem to matter," Rufus thinks to himself on his way home from work. The divorced, 47-year-old father of two feels like his job doesn't accomplish anything that he isn't doing a good job of parenting his sons, and that he doesn't have any real impact on the world around him. In Erik Erikson's theory, Rufus is experiencing a sense of

Reevaluating one's roles and dreams and making the necessary corrections is considered a(n) _______________ correction.

As a result of the Women's Health Initiative and the Million Women Study, physicians began recommending that women over the age of ____ years should not begin menopausal hormone therapy to relieve menopausal symptoms or protect their health because the risks significantly outweighed the potential benefits.

Blanchard-Fields (2007) has conducted research that found that, for middle-aged adults, highly emotional problems are associated most with ____ and ____ approaches to solving those problems.

Osteoarthritis is an example of a(n) _______________ disease, a degenerative condition caused by injury and/or overuse.

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

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

Roughly ____ percent of young adults in the United States of America return to live in their parents' house at least once after moving out.

The definition of aerobic exercise provided in your text is exercise that places moderate stress on the heart by maintaining a pulse rate of ____ to ____ percent of its maximum heart rate.

Most children feel a sense of responsibility to care for their aging parents when such care is needed. This is called _______________ obligation.

The stress and coping paradigm views stress as an environmental stimulus.

Describe the two dimensions of grandparenting noted in your textbook. What other roles do grandparents play in their grandchildren's lives?

Costa and McCrae argue that personality traits undergo significant changes between early adulthood and old age.

Dr. Zorba is giving 44-year-old Annette an intelligence test. Annette finds that she really likes answering the questions because they seem to be based on her life experiences. Dr. Zorba is most likely attempting to assess Annette's