Dr. Pam Turner NCE Study Guide Exam
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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 - ✔✔a midlife crisis - age 40-45
William Perry developed a scheme for intellectual development and ethical
development.
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,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
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
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,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
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) - ✔✔Charles Spearman
Primary Mental Abilities - ✔✔Louis Thurstone;
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, individuals have seven primary mental abilities that make up intelligence,
Daniel Goleman - ✔✔Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
Propinquity - ✔✔proximity, nearness;
Choose relationships based on proximal distance
One-dimensional Causal Models - ✔✔this model assumes that a disorder is caused by
one factor
such as a chemical imbalance.
NOT supported by research
Multidimensional Causal Model - ✔✔a disorder is caused by the
interaction of several factors and dimensions.
Symptoms or Traits may be Ego-Dystonic or Ego-Syntonic - ✔✔Ego-Dystonic:
Symptoms are unacceptable or undesirable
Ego-Syntonic - Symptoms and Traits are perceived as acceptable
A formal mental status exam
covers the following five areas: - ✔✔a. appearance and behavior
b. thought processes
c. mood and affect
d. intellectual functioning
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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 - ✔✔a midlife crisis - age 40-45
William Perry developed a scheme for intellectual development and ethical
development.
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,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
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
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,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
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) - ✔✔Charles Spearman
Primary Mental Abilities - ✔✔Louis Thurstone;
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, individuals have seven primary mental abilities that make up intelligence,
Daniel Goleman - ✔✔Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
Propinquity - ✔✔proximity, nearness;
Choose relationships based on proximal distance
One-dimensional Causal Models - ✔✔this model assumes that a disorder is caused by
one factor
such as a chemical imbalance.
NOT supported by research
Multidimensional Causal Model - ✔✔a disorder is caused by the
interaction of several factors and dimensions.
Symptoms or Traits may be Ego-Dystonic or Ego-Syntonic - ✔✔Ego-Dystonic:
Symptoms are unacceptable or undesirable
Ego-Syntonic - Symptoms and Traits are perceived as acceptable
A formal mental status exam
covers the following five areas: - ✔✔a. appearance and behavior
b. thought processes
c. mood and affect
d. intellectual functioning
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