Exam 3

Question 1

Ever-changing network of social relationships that surrounds each of us throughout our lives

Answer 1

Social Convoy Model

Question 1

What are the three components of the social convoy model?

Answer 1

inner, middle, outer circles

Question 2

size of our social networks decline as we age

Answer 2

socioemotional selectivity theory (SST)

Question 3

longer future time perspective

Answer 3

younger adults

Question 4

shorter future time perspective

Answer 4

older adults

Question 5

motivated to pursue information, knowledge, relationships

Answer 5

younger adults

Question 6

motivated to pursue emotional satisfaction, deepen existing relationships, and weed out those that aren’t satisfying

Answer 6

older adults

Question 7

quantity of social relationships ____ but quality remains ____

Answer 7

declines; the same or gets better

Question 8

an intense physiological desire for someone

Answer 8

passion

Question 9

the feeling that you can share all your thoughts and actions with another

Answer 9

intimacy

Question 10

the willingness to stay with a person through good and bad time

Answer 10

commitment

Question 11

infatuation?

Answer 11

passion

Question 12

consummate love?

Answer 12

passion + intimacy + commitment

Question 13

friendships?

Answer 13

intimacy + commitment

Question 14

what are the three different neural/emotional systems for love?

Answer 14

sexual desire, romantic love, attachment

Question 15

chemicals for sexual desire?

Answer 15

testosterone and amphetamines

Question 16

chemicals for romantic love?

Answer 16

oxytocin and opioids

Question 17

chemicals for attachment?

Answer 17

oxytocin and serotonin

Question 18

living together in an intimate partnership without being married

Answer 18

cohabiting relationships

Question 19

cohabitation has gone _____ since 1995?

Answer 19

up

Question 20

three marriage outcomes

Answer 20

marital success, marital adjustment, and marital satisfaction

Question 21

umbrella term referring to any marital outcome (ex. does a marriage end or continue?)

Answer 21

marital success

Question 22

degree spouses accommodate each other over time

Answer 22

marital adjustment

Question 23

a global assessment of one’s marriage

Answer 23

marital satisfaction

Question 24

what are the factors for marital success?

Answer 24

homogamy and feelings of equality

Question 25

similarity of values and interests a couple shares

Answer 25

homogamy

Question 26

each partner contributing someone to the relationship that the other would be hard pressed to provide

Answer 26

exchange theory

Question 27

Vunerability Stress Adaption Model

Answer 27

enduring vulnerabilities, initial satisfaction, external stressors, adaptive process, change in marital satisfaction, marital dissolution

Question 28

average age for a woman to have her first child is going ____

Answer 28

up over time for college-educated women

Question 29

number of children people have has ___ in recent years

Answer 29

decreased

Question 30

more than __% of pregnancies in the Us are ____?

Answer 30

50; unplanned

Question 31

Does the US have mandated paid paternity leave?

Answer 31

No

Question 32

enacted in 1993; requires large employers (over 50 employees) to give ____ leave for 12 weeks

Answer 32

UNPAID; Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

Question 33

Family and Medical Leave Act covers what?

Answer 33

12 UNPAID weeks of leave for new child, ill family member, recovering from medical condition, certain obligations for child or spouse

Question 34

Well-being of family takes precedence over the concerns of individual members

Answer 34

Familism

Question 35

What types of families emphasize familism more than White or Black families?

Answer 35

Hispanic/Latino and Asian American families

Question 36

person who gathers the family members together; mainly middle-age daughters

Answer 36

Kinkeeper

Question 37

Middle-age parents caught between their children and their parents as caregivers

Answer 37

Sandwich generation

Question 38

What is a boomerang kid?

Answer 38

returning home to live with parents at least once after they move out

Question 39

How many Americans provide care for older adults, in-laws, and grandparents?

Answer 39

50 million

Question 40

To care for one's parents when necessary

Answer 40

Filial obligation

Question 41

2 main sources of stress?

Answer 41

coping with parents' decline and when the caregiving role infringes on the adult child's other responsibilities

Question 42

Patterns and sequences of jobs or related roles held by people across their working lives and into retirement

Answer 42

Career

Question 43

People build careers through their own actions that result from the interface of their own person characteristics and social context

Answer 43

Career Construction Theory

Question 44

Types of Career people

Answer 44

Sprinters, Wanderers, and Stragglers

Question 45

Starting a career depends on what?

Answer 45

interest/ability, education and training, job market, economy, and how welcoming a profession is of diversity

Question 46

Is a career path linear?

Answer 46

No, it develops over many years and is not linear

Question 47

People will be more successful if they work in a field for which they are talented rather than taking a job for other reasons

Answer 47

Person-Environment Fit

Question 48

People develop careers in stages and that career decisions are not isolated from other aspects of their lives

Answer 48

Life Span/Life Space Theory

Question 49

Career success involves being proactive, believing in yourself, being self-regulated/self-motivated, and focusing on your goals

Answer 49

Social-Cognitive Theory

Question 50

What is self-efficacy?

Answer 50

belief in one's ability to succeed

Question 51

6 areas of vocational interest and job choice

Answer 51

social, investigative, realistic, enterprising, artistic, and conventional

Question 52

when a situation in which what you learn in the classroom does not always transfer directly into the real work and does not represent all you need to know

Answer 52

reality shock

Question 53

what are mentors?

Answer 53

help people adjust and advance in their careers

Question 54

Positive feeling that results from appraisal of one's work

Answer 54

Job satisfaction

Question 55

having a positive outlook about your job improves processes and outcomes

Answer 55

Psychological Capital Theory

Question 56

____-collar professionals show an increase in job satisfaction with age where ___-collar workers do not

Answer 56

White; Blue

Question 57

Do younger workers enter the workforce with high or low expectation?

Answer 57

High

Question 58

feelings that arise when workers believe what they are doing is meaningless and their efforts are devalues, or when they do not connect what they do to the final product

Answer 58

negative feelings and alienation about work

Question 59

state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress

Answer 59

burnout

Question 60

when individuals do not feel compelled to engage in enjoyable activity but rather choose freely to do so and is in harmony with other aspects of their life

Answer 60

Harmonious Passion

Question 61

Internal urge in the passionate activity that makes it difficult for a person to fully disengage from thoughts about said activity, leading to conflict with other activities in a person's life

Answer 61

Obsessive passion

Question 62

when there is a lack of challenge in one's job or promotional opportunity in the organization, also when a person decided not to seek advancement

Answer 62

Career Plateauing

Question 63

Improving existing skills

Answer 63

Reskilling

Question 64

Learning new job skills

Answer 64

Upskilling

Question 65

Changing to a completely new career

Answer 65

Job Retraining

Question 66

when paid employment is being taken away from someone

Answer 66

job loss

Question 67

when an anticipation of job loss happens with currently employed workers

Answer 67

job insecurity

Question 68

when an older adult leaved full-time workforce to pursue other interests, part-time work, volunteer work, or leisure interests

Answer 68

retirement

Question 69

retirement plan ran by the government; employee and employer both contribute a set amount monthly and employee receives set amount monthly when they retire

Answer 69

Social security

Question 70

defined benefit plan; retirement plan run by employer; employee/employer both contribute set amount monthly and employee receives set amount monthly when they retire

Answer 70

Pension

Question 71

defined contribution plan; retirement plan run by employer; employee contributing a set amount monthly and employe contributes matching amount; employee's income at retirement depends on the performance of the investments they choose

Answer 71

401k/403b

Question 72

retirement savings owed by the individual; employee's income at retirement depends on the performance of the investments they choose

Answer 72

Individual Retirement Account (IRA)

Question 73

Interest you earn on interest

Answer 73

Compound interest

Question 74

continuing in the workforce after 65

Answer 74

shunning retirement

Question 75

self-employment or part time/less demanding full time job

Answer 75

Bridge employment

Question 76

given a reduced work load or less strenuous job with the same company

Answer 76

Phased retirement