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What is the study of death and dying? - ANSWER Thanatology

Middle age adults adjust more easily to divorce than younger adults: True or False -
ANSWER True

The later adulthood stage of Erikson's Theory is Ego Integrity versus _______ (p.
604) - ANSWER Despair

Ego Differentiation - ANSWER For those who invested heavily in their careers,
finding other ways to affirm self-worth—through family, friendship, and
community life (Peck's ideas of attaining ego integrity - one of 3 parts)

Ego Transcendence - ANSWER As contemporaries die, facing the reality of death
constructively through efforts to make life more secure, meaningful, and gratifying
for younger generations

Body Transcendence - ANSWER Surmounting physical limitations by
emphasizing the compensating rewards of cognitive, emotional, and social powers

Memory strategy effectiveness in middle age: increases, stays same, or decreases? -
ANSWER Increases

Which personality type is associated with cardiovascular disease? - ANSWER
Type A

In early adulthood, thought/logic moves from hypothetical to pragmatic thought.
How does pragmatic thought benefit them? - ANSWER They accept contradictions
as part of existence and develop ways of thinking that thrive on imperfection and
compromise.

What are the 3 periods of vocational development? Which applies to young
adulthood? - ANSWER Fantasy, Tentative, & Realistic. Young adulthood is
realistic.

Expertise - ANSWER Extensive knowledge in the field

Relativistic Thinking - ANSWER The idea that in many situations there is not

, necessarily one right or wrong answer

Realistic Period - ANSWER Narrowing vocational options

Dualistic Thinking - ANSWER Dividing information into right and wrong

Piaget's post formal thought - ANSWER Personal effort and social experiences lead
to increased rational, flexible, and practical thinking

Perry's epistemic cognition - ANSWER Move from dualistic thinking (right or
wrong extremes) to relativistic thinking (awareness of multiple truths) to
commitment within relativistic thinking (synthesize contradictions)

Which is NOT one of the most abused substances in the U.S.? Choices: Cocaine,
Nicotine, Alcohol, Marijuana) - ANSWER Cocaine

Death anxiety is higher among men or women? - ANSWER Women

Anticipated grief is associated with ______ - ANSWER Prolonged, expected death

Voluntary euthanasia has __________ public support in U.S. (growing, stable, or
decreasing?) - ANSWER Growing

Generativity - ANSWER the desire, in middle age, to use one's accumulated
wisdom to guide future generations (examples: parenting, mentoring, volunteering)

What are the 5 stages of death? - ANSWER denial, anger, bargaining, depression,
acceptance

During prolonged dying, the bereaved person's acknowledgement that the loss is
inevitable, and emotional preparation for it is __________ - ANSWER
Anticipatory Grief

When does puberty happen for girls compared to boys? - ANSWER 2 years earlier

Adolescents have difficulty controlling _________ - ANSWER Emotions and
impulses



Sleep deprivation in adolescents is due to ________ - ANSWER Brain revisions in
regulation

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