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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- Explanation
Question 1: personal control beliefs
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the degree to which you believe your performance in a situation depends on something you do
Question 2: multidirectionality
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developmental pattern in which some aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects decline during adulthood
Question 3: fluid intelligence
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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
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college students over the age of 25
Question 5: secondary menal abilities
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broader intellectual skills that subsume and organize the primary abilities
Question 6: plasticity
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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
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representations of what we could become, what we would like to become, and what we are afraid of becoming
Question 8: interindividual variability
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patterns of change that vary from one person to another
Question 9: life story
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a personal narrative that organizes past events into a coherent sequence
Question 10: social clock
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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 integ network of neurons in the parietal and frontal lobes of the brain
Question 12: intimacy versus isolation
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sixth stage in Erikson's theory and the major psychosocial task for young adults
Question 13: addiction
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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)
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chemicals that cause fatty deposits to accumulate in arteries, impeding blood flow
Question 15: metabolism
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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
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behavior or cognition aimed at affecting the individuals internal world
Question 18: body mass index (BMI)
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a ratio of body weight and height and is related to total body fat
Question 19: scenario
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manifestation of the life-span construct through expectations about the future
Question 20: edgework
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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
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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
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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
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characteristic of theories of intelligence that identify several types of intellectual abilities
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