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| David Levinson and colleagues at Yale University researched the stages of male adult development and concluded that: |
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| most men do go through a midlife crisis, and many are likely to make drastic changes in their lives at this time |
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| Erik Erikson deems the central task of middle age to be resolving the issue of: |
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| generativity vs. stagnation |
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| Developmentalists McAdams and de St. Aubin see ________ as springing from two deeply rooted desires: the communal need to nurture and the personal desire to do something or be something that transcends death. |
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| Robert Peck’s aspect of midlife that concerns the ability to become emotionally flexible is called: |
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| emotional flexibility vs. emotional impoverishment |
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| According to Peck, individuals cultivate greater understanding and compassion when they confront the midlife task of: |
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| socializing vs. sexualizing in human relationships |
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| Until recently, most psychologists believed that personality patterns are established during early childhood and then remained relatively stable throughout life. Which model is being described? |
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| Neugarten suggests that middle age typically brings a(n): |
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| different reactions by socioeconomic status |
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According to Gutmann, in later life those people who age successfully tend toward androgyny,
which is: |
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| male-typed and female-typed characteristics in one personality |
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| The capacity of individuals to undergo continual change in order to adapt successfully and cope flexibly with the demands and responsibilities of life best defines: |
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| The view we have of ourselves through time as “the real me” is referred to as: |
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| The mature personality will have which traits? |
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| Which substage of Levinson’s model of male development includes reappraisal and exploration of one’s self? |
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| Women in Levinson’s model constituted three groups. What are these groups? |
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| women professional athletes |
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The study of aging and the special problems of the elderly is ________, whereas the branch of
medicine that is concerned with the mental health of elderly persons is ________. |
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| gerontology; geropsychology |
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| An area of the world where people typically live until very old age is: |
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| A substantial rise in elderly population will most likely occur around what time, when the baby boom generation passes 65? |
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| The fastest growing part of the American population currently is: |
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| Women seem to be more durable organisms than men because: |
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| of inherited sex-linked resistance to some types of life-threatening disease |
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| Regarding the future of the Social Security system, one can probably anticipate that: |
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| the ratio of support from contributions to beneficiaries will continue to decrease |
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| If a woman is a widow and was not employed during her lifetime, she is likely to receive a monthly Social Security benefit of how much based on her husband’s previous benefit of $850? |
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| In order to combat the effects of aging through physical fitness, elderly individuals: |
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| need to perform aerobic exercises as well as strength training |
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| Most communities, through their own utility companies, accept donations for the elderly poor to heat their living space during the cold months because the elderly are susceptible to a medical condition called: |
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| The biological theory of aging that proposes the body’s natural defenses against infection begin to attack normal cells is called ________ theory. |
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| Longevity assurance theory, proposed by Sacher, takes a different perspective on the aging process by supporting that: |
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| favorable genes that repair other cells are passed along by evolution |
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| What of the following is not a characteristics of senility? |
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| According to Erik Erikson, those in late adulthood are confronted with which task that might lead to wisdom? |
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| According to Peck, an elderly person who sees himself as having multiple dimensions and as pursuing new ways of finding a sense of satisfaction is demonstrating: |
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| What does Peck say happens to men and women who equate pleasure with physical comfort and wellbeing? |
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| They are affected significantly by the decline in their health and strength. |
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| By “ego transcendence,” Peck means that the elderly: |
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| come to see themselves living on after death via their contributions |
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| According to Neugarten’s research on personality and patterns of aging, what term does she use to describe those people who place a premium on staying young, remaining active, and refusing to grow old? |
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| In Neugarten’s study of personality patterns in the aged, she describes the disintegrated elderly as: |
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| revealing defects in their psychological and thought processes |
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| The Harvard graduates’ longitudinal study found that which personality traits are associated with those making the best emotional adjustments in their later years? |
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| organized, dependable, sincere |
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According to what theory does a gradual and mutually satisfying process occur in
the course of aging in which society and the individual prepare in advance for incapacitating disease and death? |
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| According to activity theory, as people age they: |
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| decrease social interaction as a result of society's withdrawing from the aging person |
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| The role exit theory, formulated by Blau and supported by Rosow, states that as Americans age, they: |
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| lose basic identity by losing chances to be socially useful |
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| The social exchange theory of aging suggests that the elderly find themselves in a state of increasing vulnerability because: |
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| as they age, they have less to offer to society than in the past |
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| The ________ theory assumes that the position of the aged in pre-industrial, traditional societies is high because the aged tend to accumulate knowledge and control through their years of experience. |
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| According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by the year 2000 only one in ________ men 60 years and over will be working. |
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| Life-extending technologies have compelled courts and legislatures to accept a standard for death—one that is agreed upon by the American Bar Association, American Medical Association, and Presidential Commission. According to this standard, death is when: |
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| a person's brain and brain stem register no activity |
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| The death-drop phenomenon refers to: |
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| the systematic psychological changes that occur before death |
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| According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a thanatologist and leading advocate for restoring dignity to dying, typically a terminally ill person’s first response to impending death is: |
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| Kübler-Ross distinguishes five stages of a process through which dying people typically pass. In the middle phase, dying individuals try to arrange a truce with the illness in order to prolong their lives (“If only I can live through our family gathering at Christmas, I’ll be ready to go.”), and Kübler-Ross calls this the stage of: |
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| Dying people often mourn their own deaths, the loss of all the people and things they have found meaningful, and the plans and dreams that will never be fulfilled. Kübler-Ross calls this: |
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| Most people who are aware of their impending death desire to die where? |
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| at home, among loved ones, and in familiar surroundings |
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| Kastenbaum’s criticism of Kübler-Ross’s stage theory of death includes what? |
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| the lack of recognition of the "preparatory grief" time |
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| The death awareness movement asserts that: |
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| a basic human right is the power to control one's own dying process |
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| “Any clinical circumstance in which the doctor and consultants conclude that further treatment cannot, within a reasonable possibility, cure, palliate, ameliorate, or restore a quality of life that would be satisfactory to the patient” describes: |
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| Because of a Supreme Court ruling stating that when a permanently unconscious person has left no clear instructions, a state is free to carry out its interest in the protection and preservation of human life, more people are preparing a legal document recognized in most states that describes one’s wishes regarding life-sustaining technology and treatment when one is dying. What is this document? |
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| Another term for “mercy killing” is: |
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