PSY 658 – Final Exam Questions And Correct Revised Answers
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PSY 658 – Final Exam Questions And
Correct Revised Answers
What is the study of death and dying? - answerThanatology
Middle age adults adjust more easily to divorce than younger adults: True or False -
answerTrue
The later adulthood stage of Erikson's Theory is Ego Integrity versus _______ (...
PSY 658 – Final Exam Questions And
Correct Revised Answers
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 3 periods of vocational development? Which applies to young adulthood? -
answer✔✔Fantasy, Tentative, & Realistic. Young adulthood is realistic.
Expertise - answer✔✔Extensive knowledge in 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 postformal 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 contradictinos)
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
Health issues that impact adolescents include: - answer✔✔Eating disorders, adolescent
pregnancy/parenthood, STD's, & substance abuse
What percentage of adolescents identify as lesbian/gay/bisexual and what percentage are unsure?
- answer✔✔5% and 2-3%
What is the adolescent stage of Piaget's Theory and at what age does it start? - answer✔✔Formal
Operational Stage around age 11
What happens during the Formal Operational Stage? - answer✔✔Develop the capacity for
abstract, systematic, scientific thinking.
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