Key Terms

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Match each of the terms on the left with its definition on the right. Click on the term first and then click on the matching definition. As you match them correctly they will move to the bottom of the activity.

Question

Big Five
consequential strangers
ecological niche
empty nest
extrinsic rewards of work
fictive kin
generativity versus stagnation
intrinsic rewards of work
kinkeeper
midlife crisis
sandwich generation
social convoy
Someone who becomes accepted as part of a family to which he or she has no blood relation.
The tangible benefits, usually in the form of compensation (e.g., salary, health insurance, pension), that one receives for doing a job.
The time in the lives of parents when their children have left the family home to pursue their own lives.
The seventh of Erikson’s eight stages of development. Adults seek to be productive in a caring way, perhaps through art, caregiving, and employment.
A caregiver who takes responsibility for maintaining communication among family members.
The intangible gratifications (e.g., job satisfaction, self-esteem, pride) that come from within oneself as a result of doing a job.
The generation of middle-aged people who are supposedly “squeezed” by the needs of the younger and older members of their families. In reality, some adults do feel pressured by these obligations, but most are not burdened by them, either because they enjoy fulfilling them or because they choose to take on only some of them or none of them.
The particular lifestyle and social context that adults settle into because it is compatible with their individual personality needs and interests.
The five basic clusters of personality traits that remain quite stable throughout adulthood: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Collectively, the family members, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers who move through life with an individual.
People who are not in a person’s closest friendship circle but nonetheless have an impact.
A supposed period of unusual anxiety, radical self-reexamination, and sudden transformation that was once widely associated with middle age but that actually had more to do with developmental history than with chronological age.
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