Lifespan Development Final Exam
Questions And Answers
/.Emerging Adulthood - Answer-✅The period of life between the ages of 18 & 25. It is
now widely thought of as a separate developmental stage.
/.Extreme Sports - Answer-✅Forms of recreation that include apparent risk in injury or
death and are attractive and thrilling as a result.
/.Drug Abuse / Addiction - Answer-✅The ingestion of a drug to the extent that it impairs
the user's biological or psychological well-being.
/.Postformal Thought - Answer-✅A proposed adult stage of cognitive development,
following Piaget's four stages. Postformal thought goes beyond adolescent thinking by
being more practical, more flexible, & more dialectical (more capable of combining
contradictory elements into a comprehensive whole).
/.Stereotype Threat - Answer-✅The possibility that one's appearance or behavior will be
misread to confirm another person's oversimplified, prejudiced attitudes.
/.Massification - Answer-✅The idea that establishing higher learning institutions &
encouraging college enrollment could benefit everyone, leading to marked increases in
the number of emerging adults in college.
/.Ethnic Identity - Answer-✅The development of ethnic & racial identity.
/.Personality in Emerging Adulthood - Answer-✅Continuity & change are evident. This
age is characterized by years of freedom from a settled lifestyle. New characteristics
appear & negative traits diminish.
/.Psychological Disorders - Answer-✅The rate of emotional disorders rises in emerging
adulthood. The causes are thought to include psychological vulnerability, combined with
one's own identity apart from the family. (schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, suicide,
drug addiction)
/.Intimacy vs. Isolation - Answer-✅The 6th of Erikson's 8 stages of development. Adults
seek someone with whom to share their lives in an enduring and self-sacrificing
commitment. Without such commitment they risk profound loneliness & isolation.
/.Choice Overload - Answer-✅Having so many options that a thoughtful choice
becomes difficult, & regret after making a choice is more likely.
, /.Cohabitation - Answer-✅An arrangement in which a couple live together in a
committed romantic relationship but are not formally married.
/.Linked Lives - Answer-✅Lives in which the success, health, & well-being of each
family member are connected to those of other members, including members of another
generation, as in the relationship between parents & children.
/.Senescence - Answer-✅A gradual physical decline related to aging. It occurs in
everyone & in every body part, but the rate of decline is highly variable within & between
persons.
/.Organ Reserve - Answer-✅The extra capacity built into each organ, such as the heart
& lungs, that allows a person to cope with extraordinary demands or to withstand organ
strain.
/.Homeostasis - Answer-✅The adjustment of all the body's systems to keep
physiological functions in a state of equilibrium, moment by moment. As the body ages,
it takes longer for these homeostatic adjustments to occur, so it becomes harder for
older bodies to adapt to stress.
/.Allostasis - Answer-✅A dynamic body adjustment, related to homeostasis, that over
time affects overall physiology. The main difference is that while homeostasis requires
an immediate response, allostasis requires longer-term adjustment.
/.Infertility - Answer-✅The inability to conceive a child after trying for at least a year.
/.In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) - Answer-✅A technique in which ova (egg cells) are
surgically removed from a woman & fertilized with sperm in a laboratory. After the
original fertilized cells have divided several times, they are inserted into the woman's
uterus.
/.Menopause - Answer-✅The time in middle age, usually around 50, when a woman's
menstrual periods cease & the production of estrogen, progesterone, & testosterone
drops. Strictly speaking, menopause is dated 1 year after a woman's last menstrual
period.
/.Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) - Answer-✅Taking hormones to compensate
for hormone reduction. HRT is most common in women at menopause or after removal
of the ovaries, but is also used by men to restore their decreased testosterone level.
/.Andropause - Answer-✅A term coined to signify a drop in testosterone levels in older
men, which normally results in reduced sexual desire, erections, & muscle mass. (Male
menopause)
Questions And Answers
/.Emerging Adulthood - Answer-✅The period of life between the ages of 18 & 25. It is
now widely thought of as a separate developmental stage.
/.Extreme Sports - Answer-✅Forms of recreation that include apparent risk in injury or
death and are attractive and thrilling as a result.
/.Drug Abuse / Addiction - Answer-✅The ingestion of a drug to the extent that it impairs
the user's biological or psychological well-being.
/.Postformal Thought - Answer-✅A proposed adult stage of cognitive development,
following Piaget's four stages. Postformal thought goes beyond adolescent thinking by
being more practical, more flexible, & more dialectical (more capable of combining
contradictory elements into a comprehensive whole).
/.Stereotype Threat - Answer-✅The possibility that one's appearance or behavior will be
misread to confirm another person's oversimplified, prejudiced attitudes.
/.Massification - Answer-✅The idea that establishing higher learning institutions &
encouraging college enrollment could benefit everyone, leading to marked increases in
the number of emerging adults in college.
/.Ethnic Identity - Answer-✅The development of ethnic & racial identity.
/.Personality in Emerging Adulthood - Answer-✅Continuity & change are evident. This
age is characterized by years of freedom from a settled lifestyle. New characteristics
appear & negative traits diminish.
/.Psychological Disorders - Answer-✅The rate of emotional disorders rises in emerging
adulthood. The causes are thought to include psychological vulnerability, combined with
one's own identity apart from the family. (schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, suicide,
drug addiction)
/.Intimacy vs. Isolation - Answer-✅The 6th of Erikson's 8 stages of development. Adults
seek someone with whom to share their lives in an enduring and self-sacrificing
commitment. Without such commitment they risk profound loneliness & isolation.
/.Choice Overload - Answer-✅Having so many options that a thoughtful choice
becomes difficult, & regret after making a choice is more likely.
, /.Cohabitation - Answer-✅An arrangement in which a couple live together in a
committed romantic relationship but are not formally married.
/.Linked Lives - Answer-✅Lives in which the success, health, & well-being of each
family member are connected to those of other members, including members of another
generation, as in the relationship between parents & children.
/.Senescence - Answer-✅A gradual physical decline related to aging. It occurs in
everyone & in every body part, but the rate of decline is highly variable within & between
persons.
/.Organ Reserve - Answer-✅The extra capacity built into each organ, such as the heart
& lungs, that allows a person to cope with extraordinary demands or to withstand organ
strain.
/.Homeostasis - Answer-✅The adjustment of all the body's systems to keep
physiological functions in a state of equilibrium, moment by moment. As the body ages,
it takes longer for these homeostatic adjustments to occur, so it becomes harder for
older bodies to adapt to stress.
/.Allostasis - Answer-✅A dynamic body adjustment, related to homeostasis, that over
time affects overall physiology. The main difference is that while homeostasis requires
an immediate response, allostasis requires longer-term adjustment.
/.Infertility - Answer-✅The inability to conceive a child after trying for at least a year.
/.In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) - Answer-✅A technique in which ova (egg cells) are
surgically removed from a woman & fertilized with sperm in a laboratory. After the
original fertilized cells have divided several times, they are inserted into the woman's
uterus.
/.Menopause - Answer-✅The time in middle age, usually around 50, when a woman's
menstrual periods cease & the production of estrogen, progesterone, & testosterone
drops. Strictly speaking, menopause is dated 1 year after a woman's last menstrual
period.
/.Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) - Answer-✅Taking hormones to compensate
for hormone reduction. HRT is most common in women at menopause or after removal
of the ovaries, but is also used by men to restore their decreased testosterone level.
/.Andropause - Answer-✅A term coined to signify a drop in testosterone levels in older
men, which normally results in reduced sexual desire, erections, & muscle mass. (Male
menopause)
