Deck 1: A Life Course Perspective

Question 1

______ is a major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that individual and family development must be understood in a past context.

A)Timing of lives
B)Linked or interdependent lives
C)Developmental risk and protection
D)Interplay of human lives and historical time

Answer 1

Interplay of human lives and historical time

Question 2

A(n)______ is the sequence of significant events,experiences,and transitions in a person's life.

A)developmental history
B)self history
C)personal history
D)event history

Answer 2

event history

Question 3

______ represents age-graded roles and behaviors expected by society.

A)spiritual age
B)chronological age
C)psychological age
D)social age

Answer 3

social age

Question 4

An example of a typical age norm in the U.S.is that ______.

A)teenagers are too young to date
B)middle-aged men often experience mid-life crises
C)elderly people are bad drivers
D)children are expected to leave the parental home at 18

Question 5

The story of Phoung and her family's experience resettling in southern California after spending two years in a refugee camp highlights ______.

A)the importance of understanding intergenerational issues within a family
B)the importance of understanding the unique adjustments refugee or immigrant families experience
C)how risk factors affect development
D)how protective factors affect development

Question 6

A person's ______ indicates their level of biological development and physical health,as measured by the functioning of their various organ systems.

A)biological age
B)chronological age
C)psychological age
D)social age

Question 7

Policies and laws that regulate timing of social role transitions are referred to as ______.

A)age norm
B)age structuring
C)age timing
D)age development

Question 8

A cohort is similar,yet distinct from a(n)______.

A)generation
B)team
C)family
D)observational group

Question 9

The capacities that people have and the skills they use to adapt to changing biological and environmental demands is ______.

A)biological age
B)chronological age
C)psychological age
D)social age

Question 10

______ is a major theme of the life course perspective which suggests that experiences with one life transition have an impact on subsequent transitions and events and may either guard the life course trajectory or put it at risk.

A)Timing of lives
B)Diversity in life course trajectories
C)Developmental risk and protection
D)Interplay of human lives and historical time

Question 11

The life course perspective is useful to social work because it acknowledges the ______ of people's lives.

A)multidisciplinary nature
B)diversity
C)similarity
D)central purpose

Question 12

A(n)______ perspective looks at how chronological age,relationships,common life transitions,and social change shape people's lives from birth to death.

A)person-in-environment
B)life course
C)developmental
D)identity development

Question 13

A _____ is a life event or transition that produces a shift in the life course trajectory.

A)transition
B)trajectory
C)life event
D)turning point

Question 14

______ indicates the current position of a person in the ongoing search for meaning and morally fulfilling relationships.

A)spiritual age
B)chronological age
C)psychological age
D)social age

Question 15

The ability of some people to fare well in the face of risk factors is referred to as ______.

A)coping ability
B)adaptability
C)protection
D)resilience

Question 16

An off-time transition means that it ______.

A)does not occur at the typical stage in the life course
B)occurs multiple times at every life course stage
C)occurs only in certain cohorts
D)is atypical for the majority of young adults

Question 17

A ______ is a significant occurrence in a person's life that may produce serious and long-lasting effects.

A)transition
B)trajectory
C)life event
D)turning point

Question 18

A ______ is a change in roles and statuses that represent a distinct departure from prior roles and statuses.

A)transition
B)trajectory
C)life event
D)turning point

Question 19

The behaviors that are expected of people of a specific age in a given society at a particular point in time are referred to as ______.

A)age norm
B)age structuring
C)age timing
D)age development

Question 20

A _____ is a long-term pattern of stability and change,which usually involves multiple transitions.

A)transition
B)trajectory
C)life event
D)turning point

Question 21

The same events of a particular historical era may affect different cohorts in different ways.

Question 22

Conjoint agency resides in ______.

A)relationships between interdependent selves
B)developing countries
C)developed countries
D)independent self

Question 23

Self-efficacy is defined as ______.

A)personal productivity
B)self-esteem
C)sense of personal competence
D)expectation that one can personally accomplish a goal

Question 24

When a society develops policies and laws that regulate the timing of social role transitions,it is called age structuring.

Question 25

A person's event history can include a day for which they have no specific memories.

Question 26

The population pyramid helps us ______.

A)prioritize pay schedules across industry
B)understand the supply and demand of labor stratification by age cohorts
C)advocate for living wage subsidies for working class families
D)understand workplace discrimination

Question 27

Parents' lives are more influenced by the trajectories of their children's lives than vice versa.

Question 28

Privilege can be described from a life course perspective as a(n)______.

A)preferable lifestyle
B)earned advantage
C)high income lifestyle
D)trajectory of unearned advantage

Question 29

Disjoint agency is defined as agency that resides in ______.

A)developing countries
B)relationships between interdependent selves
C)developed countries
D)the independent self

Question 30

The life course perspective is a theoretical model based in social work.

Question 31

The legal drinking age in the U.S.is an example of an age norm.

Question 32

Emma Suarez's roles and responsibilities changed after she gave birth to Maria.This change in roles and statuses is called a ______.

A)transition
B)life event
C)turning point
D)life timing

Question 33

The LCP views the life course as a straight path.

Question 34

A life event refers to both the happening itself and the transition that occurs because of that happening.