Sam, who lives in the US, will most likely consider himself an adult when he ________.
What is obtains financial independence?
100
Erikson's psychosocial crisis for the person in early adulthood.
What is intimacy versus isolation?
100
Levinson's theory of adult development had been criticized because it was based on interviews with ______ only.
What are men?
100
A term used to indicate a decrease in marital satisfaction after children leave home.
What is the "empty nest syndrome"?
100
As defined by the text, middle age begins at approximately ____ years of age and continues to about 60 to 65 years of age.
What is 40?
200
Abasi who lives in South Africa, will most likely consider himself an adult when he ______________.
What is gets married?
200
According to Erikson, if individuals do not develop intimacy, they face ___________.
What is isolation?
200
Levinson concluded that midlife transitions for men and women are basically the ____________.
What is the same?
200
For most parents, marital satisfaction does/does not (pick one) decline after children have left home.
What is does not?
200
Symptoms of metabolic syndrome are ___________, ____________, and ________________.
What are hypertension, obesity, and insulin resistance?
300
In the US, the most widely recognized marker of entry into adulthood.
What is holding a permanent, full-time job?
300
The 7th stage of Erikson's lifespan theory is characteristic of middle age.
What is generativity versus stagnation?
300
Current research does/does not (pick one) support the idea that midlife crises are common.
What is does not?
300
The main reason some children delay leaving home and that some return home as adults is due to
What are financial reasons?
300
When women go through menopause, there is a(n) increase/decrease in estrogen.
What is decrease?
400
Jeffrey Arnett has proposed a new category of adulthood for people ages 18-25 which involves experimentation and exploration.
What is emerging adulthood?
400
Through generativity, adults promote and guide the next generation by ___________ (only one thing required for correct answer).
What are parenting, teaching, leading, or doing things that benefit the community?
400
A recent study of stress showed that middle-age adults experience __________ "overload" stressors compared with young and older adults.
What is more?
400
Middle adulthood is referred to as the ____________ generation because they are often caring for both their adolescent children as well as their own aging parents.
What is "sandwich"? (credit for "squeezed" or "overload")
400
A recent study of American women found that the majority of postmenopausal women reported that menopause was/was not the negative event that it was once portrayed to be.
What is was not?
500
A 2003 longitudinal study found that at age 25 only slightly more than _______ of the participants were financially independent of their family of origin.
What is half?
500
Erikson believed that adults strive for generativity to achieve a sense of _______________.
What is immortality?
500
Social clocks provides guides for our lives. Individuals who are not synchronized with these social clocks find life to be more/less (pick one) stressful than those who are on schedule.
What is more stressful?
500
In the metaphor of the sandwich generation, the people who are between the"bread slices."
Who are the middle-aged adults?
500
Female menopause is more physical/psychological; whereas male menopause is more physical/psychological.