DEP 2000 Final Exam Review Sheet

Use the following material to study for the final examination. Please note that that the final exam will NOT include any essay questions. I will adjust the final grade scale to reflect this change.

Chapter 10

1. State the psychosocial stage of adolescence.

2. Identify the components on identity and the earliest part to form.

3. Define:

adolescence puberty

acculturation ethnic identity

integration assimilation

marginality secondary sex characteristics

Chapter 11

1. Explain why girls are experiencing menarche at a younger age today.

2. Identify the disadvantage of late maturation on males and females.

3. State the relationship between physical attractiveness and self-esteem.

4. Describe the effect of nutrition and weight during adolescence

5. Define:

menarche self-esteem

self-concept cognitive

obesity secondary sex characteristics

Chapter 12

1. Identify the type of school where the greatest ethnic diversity is found.

2. Compare the social activities and study habits of U.S. students with Japanese and Chinese students.

3. Define:

introspection abstract thinking

hypothetical thinking introspection

Chapter 13

1. Explain how worry and anxiety differ from fear.

2. State the main source of self-esteem girls.

3. Identify the parent style that is associated high self-esteem in adolescence.

4. Identify the factor that is related to high self-esteem in black adolescents.

5. Define:

phobia self-esteem

self-concept authoritarian parents

democratic parents permissive parents

power assertive parents

Chapter 14

1. Describe the advantages of a democratic parental behavior style.

2. Identify the optimal combination of control and care that parents should exercise with their children and the results of inconsistent control.

3. Compare the dating concern reported by women and men.

4. State who is most likely to report an unwanted sexual experience.

5. Explain how academic and family life are affected by adolescence working.

Chapter 15

1. Identify the dimensions of the adulthood.

2. List the developmental tasks of late adulthood.

3. State the major psychosocial task of early adulthood.

4. Define:

command generation social clock

normative-crisis model baby boomers

Chapter 16

1. Explain what is meant by a “double standard of aging.”

2. State the effect of too much sugar in our diet.

3. Describe the conditions that lead to a stroke.

4. Define:

ageism presbyopia

arteriosclerosis cardiac arrhythmias

Chapter 17

1. Identify the characteristics of formal operational thinking.

2. Explain the factors that weaken Denney and Palmer’s study of age and problem solving.

3. Describe the impact of aging on WAIS scores

4. Summarize Schaie’s research on intelligence.

5. List the criticisms of WAIS and other test of intelligence.

6. State the relationship between intelligence and cognitive rigidity.

7. Explain the reason performance is often confused for intelligence when testing intelligence.

Chapter 18.

1. List the components of emotional maturity.

2. Compare the effects of race on life satisfaction.

3. Describe the finding on happiness among middle age adult women and men.

4. State importance of social networks for subjective well-being of the elderly.

5. Define:

affect congruence

happiness general anxiety disorder

Chapter 19

1. List the advantage and disadvantages of being single.

2. Identify the traits married couples cited as most important in attractiveness after several years of marriage.

3. Define:

stress burnout

misogynist activity theory

Chapter 20

1. Identify the leading cause of death for adults and for children.

2. Distinguish between physiological, clinical, sociological, and psychic death.

3. Explain death with dignity.

4. Compare hospitals and hospice.

5. State the current thinking about the terminally ill and informing them about their condition.

6. Define:

euthanasia living-dying interval

sudden infant death syndrome