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Life Span Development Santrock Chapter 16
Chapter 16 from Life Span Development John Santrock. Extra info from Lecture
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04/25/2012

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Generativitity
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Achieve Immortality by leaving a legacy to the next generation
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Stagnation
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Sense they have done nothing for the next generation
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Erikson believed it was more difficult to achieve generativity without being a....
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parent
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Midlife Crisis
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Period of unusual anxiety, radical reexamination and sudden transformation
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True or False

Midlife Crisis is a common occurrence in middle adulthood

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False

Only a small % experience a midlife crisis

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Social Roles
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Expected behavior and attitudes associated with a social position
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Role Conflict
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role expectations of two more more roles are contradictory or incompatible
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Role Strain
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Difficulties that a person has in carrying out the responsibilities attached to one role
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What is the most stressful time (stage) of life?
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young adulthood
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What percentage of people age 65+ are grandparents?
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75%
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Styles of Grandparenting
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Formal

Fun-seeker

Surrogate parent

reservoir of family wisdom

Distant

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What are parents' generativity linked to?

 

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Successful development of their children as young adults
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How long does the transition to middle adulthood last?
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About 5 years
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Contemporary life events approach
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How life events influence the individual's development depends on mediating facotrs, individuals adaptation to the life event, life-stage context, and the sociohistorical context
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Social Clock
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timetable according to which indivuidals are expected to accomplish life's tasks
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Big Five Factors of personality
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openness to experinece, conscientous, extraversion, agreeableness, and neruroticism
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True or False:

Marital satisfaction increases in middle age

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True
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Empty Nest Syndrome
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Decreased marital satisfaction after children leave home
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