Deck 4: Careers As Cycles

Question 1

Most people who retire are … by the experience.

A)Exhilarated
B)Traumatized
C)Relatively unaffected
D)Substantially affected, positively or negatively
E)Psychologically sedated

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Hall's idea of 'mini-cycles' in a career was closely tied to the notion of

A)Balance
B)Motivation
C)Family cycle
D)Learning
E)Aging

Answer 2

D

Question 3

A special term for working on a part-time or temporary contract after retirement from a full-time position is

A)Semi-retirement
B)Phased retirement
C)Senior contract
D)Encore career
E)Bridge employment

Answer 3

E

Question 4

In the SOC Model of late-career coping, the letters stand for

A)Socialization-Optimization-Characterization
B)Specialization-Optimization-Co-operation
C)Systematization-Optimization-Calculation
D)Selection-Optimization-Compensation
E)Synchronization-Optimization-Communication

Question 5

The fourth of the five career stages described by Super was

A)Establishment
B)Disengagement
C)Consolidation
D)Crisis
E)Maintenance

Question 6

Gottfredson showed the age-related changes of career conceptualizations for

A)Children
B)Adolescents
C)Women
D)Non-Western cultures
E)Long-term unemployed

Question 7

On the whole, how does the job performance of older workers compare with that of younger workers?

A)Older workers perform much better
B)Older workers perform somewhat better
C)Older workers perform about the same
D)Older workers perform somewhat worse
E)Older workers perform much worse

Question 8

Which of the following is true of Levinson in relation to women's careers

A)His studies suggested women's careers were very different from men's
B)He thought the 'seasons' of women's lives were similar to men's
C)He thought that the sequencing of transitions was delayed for women
D)He reviewed prominent women's biographies but found no common pattern
E)He never studied women's careers

Question 9

In Levinson's theory of male career development, the 'Dream' is

A)A state of mature reflection back on one's career
B)The 'American Dream' of career and material success
C)A personal view of one's own life and values
D)A sense of security gained through one's family circumstances
E)The recognition that one's life is not all one wants it to be

Question 10

According to Erikson, generativity is

A)The ability to have children
B)Accomplishments that contribute to future generations
C)Strong energy shown towards the end of a person's life
D)Promotion to senior positions at any point in one's career
E)The product of the early, exploratory phase of a career