Chapter 16: CHANGING MIDDLE AGE



Study Guide for Exam 4 Chapters 12, 14, 15, & 16

Chapter 12: Socioemotional Development in Early Adulthood

Continuity and Discontinuity From Childhood to Adulthood

Attachment

Love and Close Relationships

The Faces of Love

Sternberg Theory

Friendship

Adult Lifestyles

Single Adults

Cohabitating Adults

Divorced Adults

Remarried Adults

Gay and Lesbian Adults

Marriage parenting and divorce

Marital Trends

Marital Expectations and Myths

What Makes Marriages Work

Benefits of a Good Marriage

Becoming a Parent

Gender, communication and relationships

Chapter 13: MIDDLE AGE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

A. Physical Changes

Sleep

B. Health and Disease

C. Culture, Personality, Relationships, and Health

1. Culture and Cardiovascular Disease

2. Health and Social Relationships

D. Mortality Rates

CAREERS, WORK, AND LEISURE

A. Work in Midlife

B. Job Satisfaction

C. Career Challenges and Changes

D. Leisure

RELIGION AND MEANING IN LIFE

Religion and Adult Lives

Religion and Health

Religion and Physical Health

Coping

Happiness

Meaning in Life

Ch 14 Socioemotional development in Middle Adulthood

Personality theories and adult development

Erikson’s stage

Levinson’s Periods of Adult Development

Robert Peck

How pervasive are midlife crises?

The life-events approach

Adult stage theories

The life-events approach

Stress and personal control in midlife

Contexts of midlife development

Stability and change Longitudinal Studies

Costa and McCrae’s Baltimore Study - the big five factors of personality

Berkeley Longitudinal Studies

George Vaillant’s studies

Close relationships

Love and marriage at midlife

The empty nest and its refilling

Sibling relationships and friendships

Grandparenting

Intergenerational relationships

Chapter 15 Late Adulthood

Life Expectancy and Life Span

Centenarians

Sex Difference in Longevity

Biological Theories of Aging

1. Cellular Clock Theory

2. Free-Radical Theory

3. Hormonal Stress Theory

The Aging Brain

Physical development

Sexuality

Health

Health Problems

exercise, nutrition and weight

Health Treatment

Cognitive functioning

Use it or lose it

Wisdom

Work and retirement

Mental Health

depression

dementia

Other diseases

Chapter 16 Late Adulthood

THEORIES OF SOCIOEMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Erikson's Theory

1. Peck's Reworking of Erikson's Final Stage

2. Life Review

Activity Theory

Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

Selective Optimization with Compensation Theory

Personality and Society

Personality

Older Adults in Society

Stereotyping Older Adults

Policy Issues in an Aging Society

Income

Living Arrangements

FAMILIES AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Lifestyle Diversity

Parents and adult children

Friendship

Social Support and Social Integration

Altruism/volunteering

ETHNICITY, GENDER, AND CULTURE

Ethnicity

Gender

Culture

SUCCESSFUL AGING

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