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1. Our society places the midlife point at age
2. Begining with the 40th birthday, birthdays are seen as
 to late to live it up.
hardly a reason to live.
time remaining to live.
time already lived.
3. A period of unusual anxiety, reexamination, & transformation is called a
midlife crisis.
cohort bridge.
ecological niche.
gender trajectory.
4. The person who is most likely to become a kinkeeper is a
son.
daughter.
daughter-in-law.
granddaughter.
5. Ed is moody, anxious, & self-punishing, Ed is high in
conscientiousness.
extroversion.
neuroticism.
openness.
6. Openness is seen as a positive personality trait in
the United States.
Australia.
China.
Italy.
7. A biological explanation for gender convergence stresses
family responsibilities.
social obligations.
sex hormones.
midlife crises.
8. Who believed that everyone has both a masculine & feminine side?
Jung
Freud
Maslow
Erikson
9. The "shadow side" concept was developed by
Jung.
Freud.
Levinson.
Sheely.
10. Individuals who are accepted in a family that is not their legal or biological family are
fictive kin.
generative allies.
kissing cousins.
adopted aunts or uncles.
11. By age 50, most of us are living with
aging parents.
a large extended family.
a spouse or friend.
two or more adolescent children.
12. The shift away from the extended family in the U.S.
probably will not continue.
has affected only minority families.
is the cause of the rising divorce rate.
has not eliminated family closeness, contact, & cooperation.
13. In middle age a person's attitude toward his or her parents usually becomes more
private.
ambivalent.
appreciative.
critical.
14. A young adult who serves as a "cohort bridge" usually provides
kinkeeping services.
information on new developments in the culture.
financial and emotional aid in an emergency.
an opportunity for parental pride in family accomplishments.
15. Most contemporary grandparents prefer which role?
involved
traditional
remote
companionate
16. Most Developmentalists ___________ the trend toward uninvolved grand parenting.
fully support
are unhappy with
disagree about
are delighted by
17. Most middle aged adults have their closest relationship with a
spouse.
friend.
grandchild.
cohabiting partner.
18. Studies of long term marriages
show an increasing level of happiness for recent generations.
have not been carried out for several decades.
involve cross-sectional research.
involve a selected sample.
19. Research indicates that remarried people
have a higher chance of divorce.
are unlikely to get divorced.
are worse off financially than when they lived alone.
report a higher average happiness than those in a first marriage.
20. When one partner works at a "job" to pay the bills, the other partner may then take on a _________ which is lower paying.
part-time job
avocation
vocation
career
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Robert C. Gates
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