FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT LIFESPAN

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT LIFESPAN

PSY CH 10 EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -31 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: personal control beliefs

Answer:

the degree to which you believe your performance in a situation depends on something you do

Question 2: multidirectionality

Answer:

developmental pattern in which some aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects decline during adulthood

Question 3: fluid intelligence

Answer:

abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker, allow you to make inferences, and enable you to understand the relations among concepts

Question 4: returning adult students

Answer:

college students over the age of 25

Question 5: secondary menal abilities

Answer:

broader intellectual skills that subsume and organize the primary abilities

Question 6: plasticity

Answer:

concept that intellectual abilities are not fixed but can be modified under the right conditions at just about any point in adulthood

Question 7: possible selves

Answer:

representations of what we could become, what we would like to become, and what we are afraid of becoming

Question 8: interindividual variability

Answer:

patterns of change that vary from one person to another

Question 9: life story

Answer:

a personal narrative that organizes past events into a coherent sequence

Question 10: social clock

Answer:

tagging future events with a particular time or age by which they are able to completed

Question 11: Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT)

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proposes that intelligence comes from a distributed and integrated network of neurons in the parietal and frontal lobes of the brain

Question 12: intimacy versus isolation

Answer:

sixth stage in Erikson's theory and the major psychosocial task for young adults

Question 13: addiction

Answer:

physical dependence on a substance (e.g., alcohol) such that withdrawal symptoms are experienced when deprived of that substance

Question 14: low-density lipoproteins (LDLs)

Answer:

chemicals that cause fatty deposits to accumulate in arteries, impeding blood flow

Question 15: metabolism

Answer:

how much energy the body needs

Question 16: postformal thought

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thinking characterized by recognizing that the correct answer varies from one situation to another, that solutions should be realistic, that ambiguity and contradiction are typical, and that subjective factors play a role in thinking

Question 17: secondary control

Answer:

behavior or cognition aimed at affecting the individuals internal world

Question 18: body mass index (BMI)

Answer:

a ratio of body weight and height and is related to total body fat

Question 19: scenario

Answer:

manifestation of the life-span construct through expectations about the future

Question 20: edgework

Answer:

the desire to live life more on the edge through physically and emotianlly threatening situations on the boundary between life and death

Question 21: primary mental abilities

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groups of related intellectual skills (such as memory or spatial ability)

Question 22: reflective judgement

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way in which adults reason through real-life dilemmas

Question 23: crystallized intelligence

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the knowledge you have acquired through life experience and education in a particular culture

Question 24: binge drinking

Answer:

type of drinking defined for men as consuming five or more drinks in a row and for women as consuming four or more drinks in a row within the past 2 weeks

Question 25: life-span construct

Answer:

a unified sense of the past, present, and future based on personal experience and input from other people

Question 26: role transitions

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movement into the next stage of development marked by assumption of new responsibilites and duties

Question 27: primary control

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behavior aimed at affecting the individual's external world

Question 28: multidimensional

Answer:

characteristic of theories of intelligence that identify several types of intellectual abilities