Ch. 11

Question 1

Role transition

Answer 1

Assuming new responsibilities and duties when a person moves from one phase of development to another

Question 2

Rites of passage

Answer 2

Initiation rituals that Mark the onset of a new phase of development such as adulthood

Question 3

Edge work

Answer 3

The desire to live life more on the edge through physically and emotionally threatening situations on the boundary between life and death

Question 4

Intimacy versus isolation

Answer 4

According to Erickson the psychosocial conflict of young adulthood

Question 5

Binge drinking

Answer 5

Consuming five or more drinks in a row for men or four more drinks in a row for women in a single sitting

Question 6

Addiction

Answer 6

Physical dependence on the particular substance such as alcohol

Question 7

Low density lipoprotein’s

Answer 7

Lipoprotein’s that cause fatty acids to cumulate in the arteries which impedes the flow of blood

Question 8

High density lipoprotein’s

Answer 8

Lipoprotein’s that help clear arteries

Question 9

Body mass index

Answer 9

And adjustment ratio of weight to height used to define overweight

Question 10

Multidimensional

Answer 10

Approaches to intelligence that identifies different areas of intellectual abilities

Question 11

Multidirectionality

Answer 11

Refers to the fact that some aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects decline across adulthood

Question 12

Inter-individual variability

Answer 12

Patterns of change in the domain are different for different people

Question 13

Plasticity

Answer 13

The fact that abilities can be modified by certain conditions or experiences

Question 14

Primary mental abilities

Answer 14

Groups of related intellectual skills such as Spatial skill and mathematical skill

Question 15

Secondary mental abilities

Answer 15

Broad categories of related primary mental abilities

Question 16

Fluid intelligence

Answer 16

Abilities such a stinking in a flexible adopted manner drawing inferences and understanding relations between concepts

Question 17

Crystallized intelligence

Answer 17

Knowledge acquired through experience and education in a particular culture

Question 18

Parieto-frontal integration theory

Answer 18

Theory proposing that intelligence comes from distributed and integrated network of neurons in the parietal and frontal lobe of the brain

Question 19

Post formal thought

Answer 19

Thought characterized by the realization that the correct answer may very from situation to situation that problem solutions must be realistic that most situations are ambiguous and that emotion and other subject of factors are important part of thought

Question 20

Reflective judgment

Answer 20

Reasoning about dilemmas that is characterized by the realization that the search for truth is an ongoing never ending journey

Question 21

Lifespan construct

Answer 21

Unified sense of the past present and future that is based on one’s experience and input from others

Question 22

Scenario

Answer 22

Lifespan construct that consists of expectations about the future

Question 23

Social clock

Answer 23

When adults associate future events for the time or age by which they expect to complete them

Question 24

Life story

Answer 24

Second manifestation of the lifespan construct, a personal narrative that organizes pass events into a cohort sequence

Question 25

Possible selves

Answer 25

Projecting what we could become what we would like to become and what we are afraid of becoming

Question 26

Personal control beliefs

Answer 26

Beliefs about the degree to which ones profession in a situation is within one’s control

Question 27

Primary control

Answer 27

Behavior aimed at affecting the individuals external world

Question 28

Secondary control

Answer 28

Behavior or cognition aimed at affecting the individuals internal world

Question 29

Emerging adulthood

Answer 29

The period from the late teens to the mid late 20s when individuals are not adolescents but not yet fully adults