Exam 17: Adjustment Disorders and Life-Cycle Transitions

Which of Marcia's proposed categories of identity conflicts is described as "young adults who never questioned themselves or their goals but instead proceed along the predetermined course of their childhood commitments"?

Rebecca is a college graduate who has made decisions about her long-term goals,although her goals are quite different from her parents' expectations for her.What does research tell us about where she may be in terms of Erikson's view of development?

The multidisciplinary study of aging is known as

The most important biological contribution to psychological well-being in later life is

Which of the following is most accurate in regard to the rate of affective disorders in younger and in older Americans?

John Gottman,a researcher on marital interaction,has described one pattern of problematic communication called stonewalling.How would he describe this pattern?

The term "ageism" refers to

Psychologists are not so much interested in the content of family struggles as the process.One of the most consistent findings concerns ________,or social exchange of cooperation and conflict.

What are legal documents that direct health care professionals to refrain from performing certain procedures that would keep a terminally ill or severely disabled patient alive?

____________ is the multidisciplinary study of aging.

Researchers have just begun to study the phenomenon of ________,or remembering and recounting experiences from the distant past,which is common among the elderly.

A nonrandom association between inborn propensities and environmental experience is referred to as the __________ correlation.

What element is important in both the Bowlby and Kübler-Ross models of bereavement?

Ted and Ned are monozygotic twins in their early 40s.They are both divorced.Which of the following is a genetic factor that might have influenced both twins to divorce?

Erik Erikson's major contribution to a model of psychosocial development was

Which of the following is characteristic of life-cycle transitions?

A psychologist is trying to understand the level of cooperation and conflict evident in the social exchanges of a family.This psychologist is focusing on

According to ego psychologist Karen Horney,why do adolescents experience conflict with their parents?

At age 10,Joseph decided to become a priest.By age 20,he had the same goal,never having considered any other options and never having questioned his earlier decision.Which of the following terms describes Joseph's identity category?

According to Erik Erikson,when does the struggle of generativity versus stagnation occur?