Marriage & Identity
This phase of marriage often improves once children leave the home.
What is the empty nest phase?
Jobs today are often less secure and more flexible than in past generations. This reflects the rise of this career type.
What is a boundaryless career?
This type of love, according to Sternberg, includes only intimacy and commitment.
What is friendship or companionate love?
This term refers to age-related hearing loss.
What is presbycusis?
This care option is intended specifically for end-of-life situations.
What is hospice care?
This identity status involves accepting a path laid out by others without exploration.
What is identity foreclosure?
This memory type includes general knowledge and facts.
What is semantic memory?
A person who avoids intimacy and struggles to trust others may have this attachment style.
What is avoidant attachment?
This stage theory outlines denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
What is Kübler-Ross’s stages of dying?
A sudden and traumatic loss often leads to this kind of complex emotional reaction.
What is complicated grief?
This concept explains why young adults delay traditional roles like marriage.
What is emerging adulthood?
This stage in Erikson’s theory involves giving back to society or feeling purposeless.
What is generativity vs. stagnation?
This term refers to choosing partners who are similar in background or values.
What is homogamy?
This form of care is appropriate at any illness stage and focuses on symptom relief.
What is palliative care?
One major concern around legal euthanasia is that it might influence vulnerable people to make this decision prematurely.
What is the pressure to die?
A partner who is clingy and insecure likely exhibits this attachment style.
What is preoccupied/ambivalent attachment?
This type of intelligence declines with age and involves quick reasoning.
What is fluid intelligence?
This theory explains how attachment styles can shape and fulfill our expectations in relationships.
What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?
This document specifies treatment preferences if one becomes incapacitated.
What is a living will?
This ethical concept concerns giving individuals autonomy in their medical decisions.
What are advance directives?
This love phase in Murstein’s theory focuses on physical and superficial attraction.
What is the stimulus phase?
A person may experience this personality trait if they’re friendly but consistently forgetful and disorganized.
What is low conscientiousness?
This love language values helpful actions and tasks done for a partner.
What is acts of service?
This degenerative condition begins with memory loss and word-finding difficulties.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
This stage of memory involves remembering life events or episodes.
What is episodic memory?