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Dr. Pam Turner NCE Study Guide
Questions & 100% Correct Answers
Daniel Levinson - Identified 3 Major major transitions/times occurring
between four major
eras of life:
✓ ~~> a. early adult transition (17 to 22)
✓ b. mid-life transition (40 to 45)
✓ c. late adult transition (60 to 65).
Daniel Levinson stated adults cope with 3 developmental tasks:
✓ ~~> a. build, modify, and enhance life structure
b. form and modify single components of the life structure such
as: life dream, occupation, love-marriage, family relationships,
mentor, and forming mutual relationships
c. tasks to become more individuated.
Levinson believed that most men experience
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✓ ~~> a midlife crisis - age 40-45
William Perry developed a scheme for intellectual development and ethical
development.
3 General Categories and 9 Positions
✓ ~~> A. Dualism
B. Relativism is Discovered
C. Commitment in Relativism
Nancy Chodorow was one of the first to speak out against the masculine bias
✓ ~~> Found in psychoanalytic
In Toward a New Psychology of Women, Jean Baker Miller indicated that a
large part of women's lives has been spent helping others develop
emotionally,
intellectually, and socially.
✓ ~~> "Caretaking" concept
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Judith Jordan developed the Self-in-Relation Theory.
Now known as relational-cultural theory.
✓ ~~> a. people grow toward relationships
b. mature functioning is characterized by mutuality
c. psychological growth is characterized by involvement in complex and
diversified relational networks
d. mutual empathy and empowerment are at the core
e. growth-fostering relationships require engagements to be authentic
f. growth-fostering relationships stimulate change
g. goals of development are characterized by an increasing ability to name
and resist disconnections, sources of oppression, and obstacles to mutual
relationships
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Harriet Lerner wrote The Dance of Intimacy
✓ ~~> Women needed to
re-evaluate their intimate relationships and choose a healthier balance
between other-oriented and self-absorption
Carol Tavris
✓ ~~> Society pathologizes women
Different gender perceptions based on roles
Gail Sheehy
✓ ~~> Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Transitional periods between life stages
Adaptive Thinking or Action
✓ ~~> Developed by Piaget - concept for intelligence
General Intelligence (g factor) and special intelligence (s factor)
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Dr. Pam Turner NCE Study Guide
Questions & 100% Correct Answers
Daniel Levinson - Identified 3 Major major transitions/times occurring
between four major
eras of life:
✓ ~~> a. early adult transition (17 to 22)
✓ b. mid-life transition (40 to 45)
✓ c. late adult transition (60 to 65).
Daniel Levinson stated adults cope with 3 developmental tasks:
✓ ~~> a. build, modify, and enhance life structure
b. form and modify single components of the life structure such
as: life dream, occupation, love-marriage, family relationships,
mentor, and forming mutual relationships
c. tasks to become more individuated.
Levinson believed that most men experience
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✓ ~~> a midlife crisis - age 40-45
William Perry developed a scheme for intellectual development and ethical
development.
3 General Categories and 9 Positions
✓ ~~> A. Dualism
B. Relativism is Discovered
C. Commitment in Relativism
Nancy Chodorow was one of the first to speak out against the masculine bias
✓ ~~> Found in psychoanalytic
In Toward a New Psychology of Women, Jean Baker Miller indicated that a
large part of women's lives has been spent helping others develop
emotionally,
intellectually, and socially.
✓ ~~> "Caretaking" concept
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Judith Jordan developed the Self-in-Relation Theory.
Now known as relational-cultural theory.
✓ ~~> a. people grow toward relationships
b. mature functioning is characterized by mutuality
c. psychological growth is characterized by involvement in complex and
diversified relational networks
d. mutual empathy and empowerment are at the core
e. growth-fostering relationships require engagements to be authentic
f. growth-fostering relationships stimulate change
g. goals of development are characterized by an increasing ability to name
and resist disconnections, sources of oppression, and obstacles to mutual
relationships
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Harriet Lerner wrote The Dance of Intimacy
✓ ~~> Women needed to
re-evaluate their intimate relationships and choose a healthier balance
between other-oriented and self-absorption
Carol Tavris
✓ ~~> Society pathologizes women
Different gender perceptions based on roles
Gail Sheehy
✓ ~~> Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Transitional periods between life stages
Adaptive Thinking or Action
✓ ~~> Developed by Piaget - concept for intelligence
General Intelligence (g factor) and special intelligence (s factor)
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