Chapter 10 & 11
Role Transitions
What is the acquisition of new responsibilities?
Holland's personality-type theory proposes people choose occupations to optimize this individual trait
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What is personality
Denying a job or promotion to an individual soley based on age.
What is age discrimination?
A type of intelligence that includes a broad range of skills related to how individuals adapt to their physical and social environments and solve "real world" problems.
What is practical intelligence?
An appraisal or response to events that exceed a person's resources to cope.
What is stress?
A type of intelligence that increases with age based on knowledge gained through experience.
What is crystallized intelligence?
The situation in which what you learn in the classroom, does not always transfer directly into the "real world" and does not represent all you need to know.
What is reality shock?
Satisfaction with the division of household labor is higher for women when _______
What is men that perform traditional women's chores (e.g., cooking, childcare)?
This individual keeps family members in touch with one another.
What is a kinkeeper?
During midlife, the point at which menstruation stops for women.
What is menopause?
Tagging future events with a particular time or age by which they are to be completed.
What is a social clock?
This usually happens when workers' feel that their work is meaningless and see no connection between what they do and the end product.
What is alienation?
The greatest discrepancy in household chores in heterosexual couples is found when males use more ________ gender roles for themselves.
What is masculine?
Osteoporosis
What is the name of the disease where bones become porous and extremely easy to break?
The transitional phase from regular menstruation to menopause for women.
What is perimenopause?
According to Sternberg, this is the ultimate type of love.
What is consummation?
Betty simply has no energy left for her job. She is totally unmotivated and feels exploited by the company she works. She is probably experiencing __________.
What is burnout?
Women are paid, on average, _____ of what men in the same position are paid.
What is 80%?
Erikson's 7th psychosocial stage of development that occurs in midlife.
What is generativity vs stagnation?
Improves physical, cognitive and psychological fitness as well as heart, blood pressure and oxygen functioning. (Slows down the aging process)
What is exercise?
Being preoccupied with a former spouse, failure to move forward and establish new friendships due to emotional turmoil.
What is divorce hangover?
Denying someone a job based on their gender.
What is gender discrimination?
Glass ceiling
What is the promotional level above which a women may not go?
A type of personality style characterized by over-ambitiousness, impatience, hostility and aggression.
What is type A?
Middle-aged adults who are caught between the competing demands of two generations: their parents and their children.
What is the sandwich generation?