Exam 3 Review

Name one of the Big 5 Personality Traits

A person who is anxious, impulsive, high strung or hostile is considered to have

• Low neuroticism

• High neuroticism

• Low conscientousness

• High conscientiousness

Which Big 5 personality trait is related to the most real-world achievements?

• Extraversion

• Openness to experience

• conscientousness

• agreeableness

According to Erikson, an important task in middle adulthood is

• wisdom

• happiness

• generativity

• stagnation

Happiness based on having a sense of purpose and life is

• hedonic happiness

• eudaimonic happiness

Which of the following is false about wise thinkers

• are self-transecendent

• demand humility

• sensitive to others perspectives

• embrace stability and certainty

Name two ways to keep our intellectual abilities sharp

A person in middle adulthood typically has higher ______ intellligence than adolescents and young adults

• fluid intelligence

• crystallized intelligence

We reach our intellectual peak around _______

In middle adulthood, sexual desire______ and sexual lives _______

• decrease, decrease

• increase, increase

• decrease, increase

• increase, decrease