exam 3

Question 1

Older adults often see themselves as getting better at problem solving and declining at _____________

Answer 1

memory

Question 2

Gluck and Bluck found that within western culture, people under the age of _________ were less likely than people ages _________ and beyond to emphasize the affective aspects of wisdom.

Answer 2

20,20

Question 3

According to sternberg, ____________ is related to divergent thinking.

Answer 3

Creative intelligence

Question 4

Wise individuals are good at ___________

Answer 4

problem finding

Question 5

When lector’s to their own devices to make a decision about selecting a physician and a health plan, __________ are more likely then __________ are to review more positive information than negative information before making a choice.

Answer 5

older adults, young adults

Question 6

_________ men take less time than __________ men do to come to a decision about which treatment to select for prostate cancer.

Answer 6

older, younger

Question 7

older adults are more influenced than young adults by _____________.

Answer 7

framing affect

Question 8

__________________ involves being able to deal with conflict and multiple perspectives.

Answer 8

Postformal thought

Question 9

According to Ardelt, ___________ implicit theories of wisdom tend to emphasize the cognitive aspect where as ___________ implicit theories of wisdom tend to emphasize the selective aspect.

Answer 9

Westurn, Eastern

Question 10

According to the constant probablitliy of success model of creativity, the point of ____________ productivity coincides with the point of maximum creativity.

Answer 10

maximum

Question 11

There is an ____________ in some creative fields than there is in others.

Answer 11

earlier peak

Question 12

The ______________ refers to a resurgence in creative output in the late years of many artists and composers.

Answer 12

swan song phenomenon

Question 13

________________ are a type of personality measure that asks people to respond to ambiguous stimuli.

Answer 13

Projective measures

Question 14

____________ personality inventories can be given to large numbers of people.

Answer 14

Self report

Question 15

A ______________ research study on personality would compare the personality characteristics of individuals in two or more age groups.

Answer 15

cross sectional

Question 16

According to theorist ____________ men and women have both masculine and feminine aspects to their personalities.

Answer 16

Carl Jung

Question 17

In young adulthood, ____________ suppress the feminine aspects, but as they move toward late adulthood, they are less likely to suppress the feminine aspects.

Answer 17

men

Question 18

__________ who are were very aggressive and achievement oriented in young adulthood may become more expressive and nurturing later on.

Answer 18

men

Question 19

According to theorist ____________, there is an emphasis in older adulthood on devoting time too the inner self.

Answer 19

Carl jung

Question 20

If individuals resolve the psychosocial challenge of middle adulthood successfully, ____________ believes they are graced with the virtue of care.

Answer 20

Erikson

Question 21

__________ and _________ reorganizational stage of cognitive development occurs in the young old years.

Answer 21

Schaie Willis

Question 22

Erik Erikson’s 7th stage of development is ____________ vs ____________.

Answer 22

generaltivity stagnation

Question 23

Bargh and his colleagues found that compared to young adults who unscrambled a set of neutral words, young adults who unscrambled words that are stereotypically associated with older adulthood walked more slowly after completing the task. They concluded that this was an example of _____________.

Answer 23

implicit priming

Question 24

Hummers and her colleagues found that stereotypes that people have about older adults are a mixture of __________ and ___________.

Answer 24

negative positive

Question 25

Compared to ____________ with a low sense of personal control, older adults with a high sense of personal control are more likely to watch their diet, exercise, and take prescribed medications.

Answer 25

older adults

Question 26

An individual who says "Whatever happens will happen. It is just a matter of chance and fate" is best described as a person who is high in _______________________.

Answer 26

external locus of control

Question 27

______________ refers to what we think about ourselves, whereas ___________ refers to how we feel about ourselves.

Answer 27

Self concept, self esteem

Question 28

According to ______________ life story model, invidiuals construct a personal myth to make sense of their lives.

Answer 28

McAdams

Question 29

Lets say you rent a movie and it turns out to be extremely boring and unlikely to get any more interesting but you continue watching it to the end anyhow. This is an example of _______________.

Answer 29

sunk cost fallacy

Question 30

According to the _________________ of social interactions, a social interaction between two partners is balanced if not partners value the social interaction to an equal extent.

Answer 30

social exchange theory

Question 31

According to the _______________ there is a social network of emotionally close others that moves with a person throughout life.

Answer 31

convoy model

Question 32

In _____________ study on triads young adult women, their mothers, and their grandmothers, it was found that family members make up a larger proportion of the inner circle of the social network for the older adult cohort than for the young adult cohort.

Answer 32

Levitt

Question 33

____________ and _____________ studied individual differences in the social networks of a sample of older adults ranging from 70 to 104 years of age. They found the size of the social network was inversely related to _______________.

Answer 33

Lang Christensen chronological age

Question 34

In situations involving interpersonal conflict, ___________ are less likely than younger adults are to respond emotionally.

Answer 34

older adults

Question 35

As long as older adult parents are in reasonable health, they usually provide more support for their adult offspring than their _____________ adult offspring do for them.

Answer 35

middle aged

Question 36

Compared to _____________ ,older adults are less likely to become involved in intense emotional interactions both positive and negative when interacting with others especially if those others are new acquaintances.

Answer 36

younger adults

Question 37

Research by ____________ found that the source of greatest conflict older adults report having with their adult children is life style choices.

Answer 37

Clarke

Question 38

Research by ____________ found that the source of greatest conflict that adult children report having with their older parents is communication styles, including criticism.

Answer 38

Clarke

Question 39

Compared to _______________________, African american family caregivers percibe caring for older family members more favorably.

Answer 39

European american family caregivers

Question 40

The term _______________ has been used to describe the fact that older adults welcome contact and involvement with family members but they prefer to maintain their own households as long as they are able to.

Answer 40

intimacy at a distance

Question 41

The family into which a person is born is called the _______________

Answer 41

family of origin

Question 42

The term ________________ refers to middle aged adults who have children as well as elderly parents to care for.

Answer 42

sandwich generation

Question 43

With regard to older parent adult child relationships _________________ relationship is the closest.

Answer 43

mother daughter

Question 44

In studies comparing middle aged and older married couples, __________ were more expressive than husbands, whereas husbands were more restrained when they were speaking about topics about which there was conflict.

Answer 44

wives

Question 45

Research studies on martial satisfaction indicate that the arrival of children puts a strain on a marriage but martial relationships improve once the children are launched and living independently. This is also referred to as the _______________ hypothesis.

Answer 45

upswing

Question 46

According to Kivnick and sinclair the most common grandparenting style in contemporary American society is _____________.

Answer 46

compassionate

Question 47

Just because there are no obvious signs of physical trauma, an investigator can't be sure that an older adult has not been ____________.

Answer 47

abused

Question 48

What are other different type of family house holds?

Answer 48

Been pole family, Nuclear family, extended family, household, modified extended family, blended family

Question 49

What are the types of grand parenting styles?

Answer 49

remote, compassionate, involved

Question 50

A Coping strategy that has been termed " tenacious goal pursuit" is ______________

Answer 50

assimilation

Question 51

Norman considers himself to be an excellent golf player. He has been playing on the most competitive team in his retirement community. Lately, however, he has not been paying as well, but he attributes his poor showing to the deteriorating condition of the golf course. Which coping strategy is Norman using?

Answer 51

Immunization

Question 52

What are the factors in Costa and McCraes Five Factor Model of personality?

Answer 52

Neurtics, Extroversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness and conscientious