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chapter14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| big five factors of personality | Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability |
| contemporary life-events approach | An approach that emphasizes that how a life event influences the individual's development depends not only on the life event, but also on mediating factors, |
| contemporary life-events approach | the individual's adaptation to the life event, the life-stage context, and the sociohistorical context. |
| cumulative personality model | States that with time and age, people become more adept at interacting with their environment in ways that promote the stability of personality. |
| empty nest syndrome | A term used to indicate a decrease in marital satisfaction after children leave home. |
| generativity | Adults' desires to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation; the positive side of Erikson's generativity versus stagnation middle adulthood stage. |
| sandwich generation | A term used to describe middle-aged adults because of the responsibilities they have for their adolescent and young children on the one hand and their aging parents on the other. |
| social clock | The timetable according to which individuals are expected to accomplish life's tasks, such as getting married, having children, or establishing themselves in a career. |
| stagnation | Sometimes called "self-absorption"—develops when individuals sense that they have done little or nothing for the next generation; the negative side of Erikson's generativity versus stagnation middle adulthood stage. |
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