Key People Quiz

Match the statement to the relevant name.


1				Middle adulthood requires men to come to grips with four major conflicts


2				Believes that only a minority of adults experience a mid-life crisis


3				Believes an age group's social environment can alter its social clock


4				Found mid-life consciousness, rather than crisis, in Mills college alumnae


5				Found evidence for stability in the "big five" personality factors


6				Described the crisis of middle age as generativity versus stagnation


7				Found that middle-aged adults especially were concerned about generativity and guiding younger adults


8				Too much attention is given to the role of discontinuity in adult development


9				Concluded that the evidence does not support the notion that personality traits become completely fixed at a certain age in adulthood


10				Noted that, for women, strength was needed because mid-life is a period of transition


11				One of the first Canadian researchers to investigate multi-problem families

Answer choices for questions 1 through 11

A)	Ravenna Helson
B)	Carol Gilligan
C)	Bernice Neugarten
D)	Paul Costa and Robert McCrae
E)	Benjamin Schlesinger
F)	Daniel Levinson
G)	John Clausen
H)	Erik Erikson
I)	Avshalom Caspi and Brent Roberts
J)	George Vaillant
K)	Carol Ryff