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Experiencing the Lifespan - Chapter 11
Exam Study Guide
Deinstitutionalization of Marriage - answer✔The decline in marriage and the emergence of
alternate family forms that occurred during the last third of the twentieth century
U shaped Curve of Marital Satisfaction - answer✔The most common pathway of marital
happiness in the West, in which satisfaction is highest at the honeymoon, declines during the
child-rearing years, then rises after the children grow up.
Triangular Theory of Love - answer✔Robert Sternberg's theory that three components
(intimacy, passion, and commitment), in various combinations, can explain all the forms of
human love.
Consummate Love - answer✔According to Sternberg's theory, the most complete form of love,
consisting of all three components-intimacy, passion, and commitment.
Demand-Withdrawal Communication - answer✔A pathological type of interaction in which
one partner, most often the woman, presses for more intimacy and the other person, most often
the man, tends to back off.
Fertility Rate - answer✔The average number of children a woman of childbearing years will
have in her lifetime at the current rate for her country.
Marital Equity - answer✔Fairness in the "work" of a couple's life together. If a relationship
lacks equity, with one partner doing significantly more than the other, the outcome is typically
marital dissatisfaction.
New Nurturer Father - answer✔Late-twentieth-century, middle-class idea in Western countries
that fathers should do hands-on nurturing and share the child care equally with wives
Traditional Stable Career - answer✔A career path in which people settle into their permanent
life's work in their 20s and often stay with the same organization until they retire.
Boundryless Career - answer✔Today's most common career path for Western workers, in
which people change jobs or professions periodically during their working lives.
Occupational Segregation - answer✔The separation of men and women into different kinds of
jobs and career paths
Experiencing the Lifespan - Chapter 11
Exam Study Guide
Deinstitutionalization of Marriage - answer✔The decline in marriage and the emergence of
alternate family forms that occurred during the last third of the twentieth century
U shaped Curve of Marital Satisfaction - answer✔The most common pathway of marital
happiness in the West, in which satisfaction is highest at the honeymoon, declines during the
child-rearing years, then rises after the children grow up.
Triangular Theory of Love - answer✔Robert Sternberg's theory that three components
(intimacy, passion, and commitment), in various combinations, can explain all the forms of
human love.
Consummate Love - answer✔According to Sternberg's theory, the most complete form of love,
consisting of all three components-intimacy, passion, and commitment.
Demand-Withdrawal Communication - answer✔A pathological type of interaction in which
one partner, most often the woman, presses for more intimacy and the other person, most often
the man, tends to back off.
Fertility Rate - answer✔The average number of children a woman of childbearing years will
have in her lifetime at the current rate for her country.
Marital Equity - answer✔Fairness in the "work" of a couple's life together. If a relationship
lacks equity, with one partner doing significantly more than the other, the outcome is typically
marital dissatisfaction.
New Nurturer Father - answer✔Late-twentieth-century, middle-class idea in Western countries
that fathers should do hands-on nurturing and share the child care equally with wives
Traditional Stable Career - answer✔A career path in which people settle into their permanent
life's work in their 20s and often stay with the same organization until they retire.
Boundryless Career - answer✔Today's most common career path for Western workers, in
which people change jobs or professions periodically during their working lives.
Occupational Segregation - answer✔The separation of men and women into different kinds of
jobs and career paths
