Ch 11: Love & Marriage
According to Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love, which three components can combine to produce different types of love?
Intimacy, passion, and commitment
Which Holland type prefers helping, teaching, and working with people?
Social
What personality pattern is associated with increased cardiovascular risk?
Type A
What term describes physical decline caused by accumulated cellular damage?
Senescence
What theory explains why older adults prioritize emotionally meaningful relationships?
Socioemotional selectivity theory
Lack of heartbeat and lack of respiration
What term describes couples who share similar values and backgrounds?
Homogamy
Which Holland type enjoys analyzing problems and testing theories?
Investigative
What term describes age-related declines in male testosterone?
Andropause
What type of life expectancy measures years lived without debilitating disease?
Useful life expectancy
What term describes a gradual transition from full-time work into retirement?
Bridge job
What state involves wake-sleep cycles but no awareness of self or surroundings?
Persistent vegetative state
According to exchange theory, what makes a relationship satisfying?
Both couples contribute equally what they are good at
What term describes the gap between career expectations and workplace reality?
Reality shock
What stage precedes menopause and often involves irregular cycles and hot flashes?
Perimenopause
Which type of intelligence relies on accumulated knowledge and experience?
Crystallized intelligence
What term describes a sudden, complete departure from employment?
Crisp retirement
What distinguishes physician-assisted suicide from euthanasia?
The patient takes the prescribed lethal medication
Which Gottman behavior is the strongest predictor of divorce?
Contempt
What workplace experience involves feeling meaningless and replaceable?
Alienation
What Erikson concept describes contributing to future generations?
Generativity
Which type of intelligence tends to decline with age: fluid or crystallized?
Fluid intelligence
What activities include bathing, dressing, and eating?
Activities of daily living (ADLs)
What is the primary goal of hospice care?
Avoid measures to delay death and to make dying easier
What relationship pattern involves moving in together before making a commitment to marry?
Sliding into cohabitation
What condition involves emotional exhaustion and detachment from work?
Burnout
What family role involves maintaining connections and organizing gatherings?
Kinkeeper
What age-related condition makes speech harder to understand, especially in noisy settings?
Presbycusis
What type of elder abuse involves failing to provide needed care and is the most common type of abuse?
Neglect
What is the correct order of Kübler-Ross's five stages of dying?
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
What hormone is associated with bonding, attachment, and long-term monogamy?
Oxytocin
What conflict occurs when work demands interfere with family responsibilities?
Work-family conflict
What term describes adults caring for both children and aging parents?
Sandwich generation
What is the primary factor in living to 100 or older, according to the exam material?
Genes
What process involves reflecting on and evaluating one's life?
Butler's Life Review
Why should adults avoid euphemisms when explaining death to young children?
Children may interpret them literally.