Psy 658 - Final Exam Vocabulary
Mourning - answerthe culturally specified expression of the bereaved person's thoughts and
feelings through funerals and other rituals
Aging in Place - answerIn late adulthood, remaining in a familiar setting where one has
control over one's everyday life
Social...
Mourning - answer✔✔the culturally specified expression of the bereaved person's thoughts and
feelings through funerals and other rituals
Aging in Place - answer✔✔In late adulthood, remaining in a familiar setting where one has
control over one's everyday life
Social Convoy - answer✔✔A model of age-related changes in social networks, which views the
individual as moving through life within a cluster of relationships, with close ties in the inner
circle and less close ties on the outside. With age, people change places in the network, new ties
are added, and some are lost entirely
Possible Selves - answer✔✔The temporal dimension of self-concept. Future-oriented
representations of what one is striving for and what one is attempting to avoid
Skipped Generation Family - answer✔✔a family structure in which children live with
grandparents but apart from parents
Burnout - answer✔✔a condition in which long-term job stress leads to mental exhaustion, a
sense of loss of personal control, and feelings of reduced accomplishment
Hardiness - answer✔✔a set of three personal qualities - control, commitment, and challenge -
that, together, help people cope adaptively with stress brought on by inevitable life changes
Sandwich Generation - answer✔✔A term used to describe middle-aged adults who must care for
multiple generations above and below them at the same time
Menopause - answer✔✔The end of menstruation and, therefore, of a woman's reproductive
capacity
Mortality - answer✔✔The phase of dying in which the individual passes into permanent death
Kinkeeper - answer✔✔Role assumed by members of the middle generation, especially mothers,
who take responsibility for gathering the family for celebrations and making sure everyone stays
in touch
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