Chapter 3

Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. Each of Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development involve positive or negative resolution of

a. / a developmental task or challenge
b. / an unconscious desire
c. / a moral dilemma
d. / an instinctual crisis

____ 2. In young adulthood, friends appear to help people

a. / with the task of becoming an independent, autonomous person.
b. / internalize the social expectations of society.
c. / consciously focus on the aging process.
d. / maintain intimate ties with their families.
e. / All of these choices

____ 3. Middle age typically is a time of

a. / having to cope with decreasing competence.
b. / psychologically separating from the family into which one was born or adopted.
c. / adjusting to decreased physical strength and health.
d. / deciding which roles one might still fill and which to abandon.

____ 4. Developmentalists usually define the “very-old” as ages _____ and older.

a. / 75
b. / 80
c. / 85
d. / 90

____ 5. Continuity theory assumes

a. / adult children will age like their parents.
b. / people do not develop a core personality until middle-age.
c. / a person’s adaptation to old age can be predicted from his adaptation to young adulthood and middle age.
d. / people do not adopt sufficient coping mechanisms for stress and frustration until their senior years.