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approach to pers developmt that is based on fairly universal stages tied to a sequence of age-related crises
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Normative Crisis Models
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Name a theory that exemplifies a Normative Crisis Model
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Erikson's Psychosocial Theory, Freud's Psychosexual theory of devel., etc.
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What is the biggest criticism of the Normative-Crisis models of development
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They arose at a time when society had rigid roles for people (men worked and women took care of the house).
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approach that is based on the timing of particular events in an adult’s life rather than on age per se determining
personality |
Life Event Models
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One woman has her first child @ age 21 experiences
similar psychological forces to that of another woman who has her first child @ age 39. Result is that the 2 women, despite very diff ages, share certain commonalities of pers developmt. Which model of adult personality development best explains this scenario? |
Life Event Model
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stage during middle adulthd in which people consider their contributions to family & society
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Erikson's Generativity v. Stagnation stage
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Sd adult men pass thru a series of stages beginning w/entry into early adulthd around age 20 & continuing into middle adulthd
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Levinson's seasons of life theory
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What occurs in the beginning stages of Levinson's seasons of life theory?
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you leave your parents and enter the adult world
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At around age 40 or 45, this is a time of questioning
- people focus on finite nature of life - experience first signs of aging - confront knowledge will be unable to accomplish all their goals ac they die. Levinson calls this stage: |
Midlife transition
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stage of uncertainty & indecision brought about by
- realization that life is finite - may not be as satisfied w/their accomplishments than they expected - look toward past & seek to define what went wrong/look for ways to correct mistakes - Levinson sd is painful and tumultuous period of questioning |
Midlife Crisis
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- initial wk based on a gp of only 40 men
- yrs later worked w/women but again only a small sample - overstated consistency & generativity of midlife crisis patterns These are all problems associated with whose theory? |
Levinson
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True/False
Most research today suggests that passage into middle adulthood is relatively tranquil and without crisis |
True
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True/False
Adults’ sense of subj well-being or general happiness is unstable over the lifespan |
False, Subjective well-being and happiness remains relatively stable for the majority of people
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