answered to pass 2025/2026
secondary aging - correct answer ✔✔physical declines due to/brought about by environmental
factors or an individual’s behavioral choices
stress - correct answer ✔✔physical and emotional response to events that threaten or
challenge an individual
Lazarus and Folkman - correct answer ✔✔not every situation produces stress
primary appraisal - correct answer ✔✔assessment of an event to determine whether its
implications are positive, negative or neutral
secondary appraisal - correct answer ✔✔the assessment of whether one's coping abilities and
resources are adequate to overcome the harm, threat, or challenge posed by the potential
stressor
negative emotions - correct answer ✔✔more likely to produce stress
psychosomatic disorders - correct answer ✔✔medical problems caused by the interaction of
psychological, emotional, and physical difficulties
Hardiness - correct answer ✔✔a personality characteristic associated with a lower rate of
stress-related illness, take-charge kind of people
, resilience - correct answer ✔✔the ability to withstand, overcome and actually thrive following
profound diversity, easy-going, good-natured, social skills, independent people
Giesela Labouvie-Vief - correct answer ✔✔suggests that nature of thinking changes
qualitatively during early adulthood, post-formal thought
William Perry - correct answer ✔✔development growth in early adulthood involves mastering
new ways of understanding the world
dualistic thinking - correct answer ✔✔the notion that something can either be right or wrong
acquisitive stage - correct answer ✔✔(childhood and adolescence) the first two decades the
child is acquiring knowledge
Achieving Stage (Schaie) - correct answer ✔✔the point reached by young adults in which
intelligence is applied to specific situations involving the attainment of long-term goals
regarding careers, family, and societal contributions
executive stage and responsible stage - correct answer ✔✔middle adulthood
reintegrative stage - correct answer ✔✔the period of late adulthood during which the focus is
on tasks that have personal meaning
componential intelligence - correct answer ✔✔mental components involved in analyzing data
and solving problems, especially problems involving rational behavior
experiential intelligence - correct answer ✔✔the ability to use their knowledge and experiences
in new and creative ways
part of triarchic theory by Robert Sternberg