Human Development Final Exam

Social Construction roles

behavioral expectations, identities, and social categories created and maintained through collective agreement, language, and interaction, rather than biological necessity.

Microsystem

Mesosystem

Exosystem + example of “exosystem” influence

Macrosystem

Chronosystem

Person-Process-Context-Time Model

Stereotypes/ Stereotyping

Labels/Labelling

Memory recall and retrieval in older adults

Ageism

Aging Paradox

Social Disengagement

Learned Helplessness

Compression of Morbidity

Narrative Model of Grief

Dual Process Model of Grief

Philippe Aries

Urie Bronfenbrenner

Hillary Clinton

Erik Erikson

Stanley Milgram

Margaret Thatcher

Phillip Zimbardo

Melanie Klein

the definition and example of “proximal process”

What did the participants in Milgram and Zimbard'o’s study do (and not do?)

Important divisions within society (levels of context) that impact individuals development

How are modern conceptions of old age similar to adolescence?

Distinguish between fluid and crystalized intelligence performance in older adults

Most common memory issues for older adults?

An example of “subjective age”

National Geographic Scratch and Sniff Study

Kastenbaum’s ages of me

Typical gender breakdown of family caregivers (daughters outnumber sons 3 to 1)

The “Denial of Death” Thesis and Death Taboo

Attachment Styles and Type of Grief Reactions (ambivalent attaachment leads to…)

Stages (in order) of the Kubler-Ross Model of Grieving

Relationship between religious beliefs and fear of death

____ is what happens when unfounded generalizations such as expectations about roles become to rigid

Stereotyping

This perspective see the reality of the world as the result of the interactions between individuals and groups in society and medicated through ideology and culture

Social Construction

______describes how people who are treated based on unfounded generalizations may respond to the expectations by becoming what they are expected to become

Labelling

Which of the following best represents an influence from the exosystem in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model

A parents workplace implementing mandatory overtime

“There is no such thing as society…there are only individual men and women” is a quote from which British Prime Minister

Thatcher

In Bronfernbrenner’s Person-Proccess-Context-Time (PPCT) model, which of the follwoing best illustrates a “priximal process?”

Daily conversations between a caregiver and child during mealtimes

The cluster of expectations which become attached to a particular position, status, or job are known as

Roles

In Milgrams obedience study, the majority of participants:

Administered the highest level of shocks under pressure from an authority figure

“It takes a _____ to raise a child” is a proverb popularized by Hillary Clintons book from 1996

Village

The Zimbardo prison experiment demonstrates that

Labelling and institutional roles can alter behavior and identity quickly

Modern conceptions of old are are best described as a result of economc development and social conditions. In this way it is similar to another part of the life course

Adolescence

While dementioa is not inevitable part of getting older, some memory issues are common. What is the most common issue?

Memory recall and retrival

What is the term to used to describe the unwarranted stereotypes applied to older people

Ageism

Which of the following best reflects the concept of “subjective age”

How old someone feels, look, acts, and engages socially

What did the National Geogrpahic Scratch and Sniff Study reveal about aging and sensory perception

Adults over 70 were least likely to correctly identify odors, including dangerous ones

Which of the following is not one of Kasenbaum’s “Ages of Me”

intellectual age

If a nursing home resident is spoken in “baby talk” and given no chocies regarding their daily routine, they might begin to believe they have no control over their life. This is known as…

learned helplessness

According to Erikson, the primary psychological ‘crisis’ of late adulthood invovles:

Integrity vs Despair

As people realize their ‘time horizons’ are contracting in late life, they typically:

Prioritize and savor existing, rewarding relationships

Which of the following is true regarding family caregiving in late life

daughters outnumber sons as primary caregivers by a ration of 3 to 1

Individuals with what attachment style are most likely to manifest “severe protracted grief”

Ambivalent

According to the Dual Process Model of grief by Stroebe and Schut, healthy grieving involves”

Oscillating between loss-oriented and restoration-oriented coping

What best describes the “denial of death” thesis proposed by Philippe Aries?

Death is hidden away in hospitals and treated as taboo in modern societies

Kubler-Ross model of grief

1. Denial

2. Anger

3. Bargaining

4. Depression

5. Acceptance

This psychoanalytic thinker draws heavily on and wrote extensively on Freuds concept of the “death instict”

Melanie Klein

True or False?

In the narratives model of grief, two types of coping with beravement wax and wane between a “loss-oriented” and “restoration-oriented” perspective for the individual

False

Which of the following statement is true regarding belief in an afterlife and death anxiety

Strong religious or secular beliefs may reduce anxiety about death

True or False? People with moderately strong religious beliefs fear death more than those with no religious beliefs

True