Middle-Aged Adults Who Must Meet the Multiple Demands of Career

question 14

Multiple Choice

Middle-aged adults who must meet the multiple demands of career and family as well as the demands of caring for two generations, their children and their elderly parents, are considered to be in the:

• A) stage of integrity.
• B) state of work-family imbalance.
• C) sandwich generation.
• D) stage of discontinuity.

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

A cognitive bias that causes people to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in explaining others' behavior.

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive bias where individuals rely on immediate examples that come to mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

First Instinct Fallacy

The false belief that it is better not to change one’s first answer on a test even if one starts to think that a different answer is correct.

Upward Counterfactual Thinking

The process of imagining better alternatives to past events, which can have various emotional or motivational effects.