Human Development Final Chapter 16

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generativity versus stagnation

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Erikson's theory: Generativity involves reaching out to others in ways that give to and guide the next generation.

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generativity is when...?

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commitment extends beyond oneself (identity) and one's life partner (intimacy) to a larger group-family, community, or society.

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results from generativity?

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the capacity to care for others in a broader way than in previous stages.

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stagnation

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Erikson recognied that once people attain certain life goals, such as marriage, children, and career success, they msy become self-centered and self-indulgent.

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midlife crisis implies?

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a major restructuringof the personality.

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possible selves

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future-oriented representations of what one hopes to become and what one is afaid of becoming. Possible selves are hte temporal dimension of self-concept-what the individual is striving fo and attempting to avoid.

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unlike selfconcept, possible selves...?

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self concept, is constantly responsive to others feeback, possible selves though influenced by others can be defined and redefined by the individual, aas needed.

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parental imperative theory

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holds that identifictaion with traditional gender roles is maintained durin the active parenting years to help ensure the survival of children. Men become more goal-oriented, while women emphasize nurturance. Afer children reach adulthood parents are free to express the "other-gender" side of their personalities.

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adrongynous

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a mixture of masculine and feminine characteristics.

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adrognyny results from...?

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a complex combination of social roles and life conditions.

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"big 5" personality traits

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neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.

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neuroticism

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individuals who are high on this trait are worrying, temperamental, self=pitying self consious, emotinal and vulnerable. individuals who are low are calm, even-tempered, self-content, comfortable, unemotinal, and hardy

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extroversino

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individuals who are highon this trait are affectionate, talkative, active, fun-loving, and passionate. individuals who are low are reserved, quiet, passive, sober, and emotionally unreactive.

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openness to experience

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individuals who are high on this trait are imaginative, creative, origianal, curious and liveral. individuals who are low are down-to-earth, uncreative, conventional, uncurious, and conservative.

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agreeableness

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individuals who are high on this trait are sof-hearted, trusting, generous, acquiescent, lenient, and goodnatured. individuals hwo are low are ruthless, suspicious, stingy, antagonistic, critical, and irritable.

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conscientiousness

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individuals who are high on this trait are conscientious, hardworking, well-organized, puctual, ambitious, and perservering. individuals who are low are negligent, lazy disorganized, late aimless, and nonpersistent.

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feminization of poverty

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a trend in which women who support themselves or their families have become the majority of the adult population living in poverty, regarless of age and ethnic group.

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kinkeeper

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the grandparent rolel may be a vital means through which middle-aged womoen satisfy their kinkeeping functino.

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sandwich generation

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widely used to refer to the idea that middle-aged adults must care for multiple generations about and below them at the same time.

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burnout

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a conditino in which long-term job stress leads to mental exhaustion, a sense of loss of personal control, and feelings of reduced accomplishment.

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glass ceiling

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women and ethnic minorities face a glass ceiling, or invisible barrier to advancement up to the corporate ladder.

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Young-old

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(Levinson) new ways of being both young and old

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destruction-creation

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(Levinson) acknowledge past paths of destruction and try to create products of life

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masculinity-femaninity

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try to balance masculine and femanine parts of self.

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engagement-seperatism

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try to balance engament in surrounding world and seperatist in it.