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LSDP
life span dev psych Ch 8
Question | Answer |
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Five basic clusters of personality traits that remain consistent throughout adulthood. These include: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. | big five |
Young adults who return home (after having been gone for some period) to live with the middle-aged parents. | boomerang children |
The transition from being able to bear children to being unable to do so. | climacteric |
Parents’ feelings of unhappiness, worry, loneliness, and depression resulting form their children’s departure from home. | empty nest syndrome |
Refers to the acquisition of skills or knowledge in a specific area. This usually occurs in a focused area, e.g., an occupational specialty area. | expertise |
People who accept and treat a person like a family member even though the people are neither biologically nor legally related. | fictive kin |
A tendency where men and women tend to become more similar as they move through middle age. | gender convergence |
A situation in which each sex takes on the other sex’s roles and traits in later life, i.e., women become more self-confident and men more emotional. | gender crossover |
Erikson’s middle adulthood stage in which people consider their contributions to family and society. | generativity versus stagnation |
Physical and psychological change related to the male reproductive system that occurs during late middle age. | male climacteric |
The cessation of menstruation. | menopause |
A period of unusual anxiety and radical transformation that is commonly associated with middle age. | midlife crisis |
Loss of the ability to hear sounds of high frequency. | presbycusis |
. A nearly universal change in eyesight that results in some loss of near vision. | presbyopia |
Age-related changes that are an inevitable part of aging. | primary aging |
A term used to describe couples in middle adulthood who must fulfill the needs of both their children and their aging parents. Largely now considered a myth since some adults do feel pressured by obligations but do not feel themselves burdened by them. | sandwich generation |
Organized bodies of information stored in memory that help explain the way the world is organized, allow the categorization of information, and the interpretation of new information. | schemas |
Age-related changes that take place as the result of a person’s behavior or a society’s failure to eliminate unhealthy conditions. | secondary aging |
A process by which people concentrate on a particular skill area to compensate for losses in other areas. | selective optimization |
A group of people who form relationships and socialize with an individual; it helps guide a person throughout life. | social convoy |
A cognitive perspective that is characterized by a broad, practical, comprehensive approach to life’s problems. It reflects timeless truths rather than immediate answers. | wisdom |