Deck 22: Seciton 4: Adulthood: Psychosocial Development

Question 1

Personality traits are exhibited the same in all contexts.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The "Big Five" refers to the five years following an adult's 40th birthday.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A typical adult becomes a little less neurotic and open and a little more agreeable and conscientious with age.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Consequential strangers are people who have no impact on a person's life.

Question 5

Adequate income is not correlated with marital satisfaction.

Question 6

A good indication of family closeness is whether family members live with one another, close to one another, or distant from one another.

Question 7

Today, few developmentalists believe that the changes of middle age produce a midlife crisis.

Question 8

Divorce often weakens or destroys family bonds beyond that of the spousal relationship.

Question 9

As adults age, their friendships tend to stagnate.

Question 10

According to Erikson, the search for identity is complete at the end of the stage of identity versus role confusion.

Question 11

Fictive kin are people accepted as part of a family without having biological or marital ties to that family.

Question 12

Since Donato and Gemma's children have moved away and started their own families, their home is now an "empty nest."

Question 13

Gay, lesbian, and heterosexual couples can all be supportive and destructive.

Question 14

According to a study of twins living in Denmark, twins are less apt to get married than single-born adults.

Question 15

As adults age, sibling relationships tend to become closer.

Question 16

Most adults do not seek long-term romantic partners.

Question 17

Maslow linked chronological age to adult development on his hierarchy of needs.

Question 18

The group of people who move through life with an individual providing protection and encouragement is his or her social convoy.

Question 19

Whether an individual ranks high or low in each of the Big Five personality traits depends solely on heredity.

Question 20

Introversion is a proposed sixth personality dimension that may be added to the Big Five.

Question 21

Extrinsic rewards of work include pride in a job well done and friendship at the workplace.

Question 22

About half of all employees in the United States work a traditional 9-to-5 work schedule.

Question 23

Though it may be painful if they are later separated, a loving bond is best for both foster parents and foster children.

Question 24

The intrinsic rewards of work often result in less absenteeism and job change.

Question 25

Today's workers change jobs more often than did workers of the past because resignations, firings, and hirings occur more often.

Question 26

Raises and bonuses at work do not seem to increase employee motivation.

Question 27

Since Dorothea is caring for her teenage children and her elderly parents, she is a member of the sandwich generation.

Question 28

Remarriages are less likely to end in divorce than are first marriages.

Question 29

For remarried fathers, bonds with their new stepchildren or with a new baby may replace strained relationships with their children from a prior marriage.

Question 30

As adults grow older, job changes become less stressful.

Question 31

Most adoptions today are open adoptions; that is, the adopted child is aware that the biological mother released him or her to the adoptive parents.

Question 32

Most employers consider the psychosocial needs of their workers.

Question 33

A way that adults can be generative is by caregiving.

Question 34

Micro-aggressions may go unnoticed by those in the majority.

Question 35

Most kinkeepers are middle-aged women.

Question 36

Most people underestimate the difficulty of parenting.

Question 37

Weekend work, especially with mandatory overtime, is particularly difficult for father-child relationships.