According to Your Textbook, Personality Growth or Change Across Adulthood

question 113

Multiple Choice

According to your textbook, personality growth or change across adulthood does not normally occur unless

• A) biological forces dictate it is needed for survival.
• B) there are special circumstances and with an environmental push for it to occur.
• C) interpersonal relationships force it to happen.
• D) an individual recognizes it is needed to increase happiness.

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Definitions:

Self-Control

involves the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in the face of temptations and impulses.

Latency Stage

A phase in Freudian psychosexual development occurring from around age 6 to puberty, characterized by a decrease in sexual interests and conflicts.

Gender Identity

A person's innate feeling of their gender identity, which can differ from the sex assigned to them at birth.

Self-Control

Controlling one's emotional responses, cognitive processes, and actions in situations presenting temptations and spontaneous impulses.