Test 3

Question 1

Needlessly postponing task until some future time

Answer 1

Procrastination

Question 2

Time we can use any way we want

Answer 2

Discretionary time

Question 3

The way that people are aware of the passage of time

Answer 3

Time perception

Question 4

Internal “clock” that operates in 24-hour cycles

Answer 4

Circadian rhythms

Question 5

The study of the vital statistics of human populations

Answer 5

Demographics

Question 6

Rates are dropping

Answer 6

Infant mortality

Question 7

Both parents are working outside of the home

Answer 7

Dual income

Question 8

Both parents work outside of the home and both have made long term commitments to their careers

Answer 8

Dual careers

Question 9

2 people taking 1 position and sharing the job and wages

Answer 9

Job sharing

Question 10

When children come back to live with their parents

Answer 10

Boomeranging

Question 11

The middle aged people balancing taking care of their children and their older parents

Answer 11

Sandwich generation

Question 12

• can’t stop thinking about work, doing work
• work is always the most pleasurable part of life
• have trouble sleeping, relaxing, being alone or with family
• not organized or productive
• adversely affects relationships

Answer 12

Workaholism

Question 13

A job expands to fill the time available to accomplish the task

Answer 13

Parkinson’s law

Question 14

• also known as the 80-20 rule

- 20% of the time allotted to a task usually produces 80% of the results

Answer 14

Pareto principle

Question 15

• the non-specific response of the body to demands made upon it
• is subjective
• not all is bad

Answer 15

Stress

Question 16

-“father” of stress research

Answer 16

Hans Selye

Question 17

Involves things like fear and anxiety

Answer 17

Distress

Question 18

New experiences, challenge, competition

Answer 18

Eustress

Question 19

Situations or events that cause stress

Answer 19

Stressors

Question 20

Cumulative effect of many stresses building up at one time

Answer 20

Stress overload

Question 21

• the balance or level of stress that one is comfortable with
• combination of habit and everyday expectations, and an appropriate amount of adventure and newness

Answer 21

Comfort zone

Question 22

-stresses and expectations that we place upon ourselves. Demands and standards that we set for ourselves.

Answer 22

Internal stress

Question 23

3 types

• acute major stress like a car accident
• ongoing, role-related stress like a policeman or Doctor
• lifetime trauma like the tornadoes

Answer 23

External stress

Question 24

One that is predictable

Answer 24

Normative stressor events

Question 25

One that you can not anticipate

Answer 25

Non-normative stressor events

Question 26

- describes people who are able to cope well with stress - one who has a sense of control over his life, realizes that change is part of life and that they have what it takes to cope with change

Answer 26

Psychological hardiness

Question 27

Time urgency, impatient, tense, restless, hostile, negative, suspicious, distrustful, cynical, aggressive, competitive

Answer 27

Type a personality

Question 28

Not overwhelmed by sense of time urgency, not impatient, can relax, cooperative rather than competitive. Goal-oriented and ambitious, and confident.

Answer 28

Type b personality

Question 29

- list your short-term goals - make a daily to-do list - allow time for sleep, rest and relaxation - avoid procrastination - if you need to gain control, try to change only a little at a time

Answer 29

6 steps to effective time management

Question 30

Make a to-do list

Answer 30

Time management tools

Question 31

- relieves stress - saves time - properly kept, eliminates need to evaluate what needs to be done next - avoids the major inefficiency of forgetting something - allows you to use unexpected free time to fullest advantage

Answer 31

Advantages of keeping a daily to-do list

Question 32

- prioritize - line through a task as you complete it - anything not lined through at the end of the day, put on the next day's list - update list daily - include as much detail as possible - keep your list handy

Answer 32

How to organize your to-do list

Question 33

- task may seem overwhelming - don't know where to start - Fear of failure - Other reasons that you can identify?

Answer 33

Reasons that people procrastinate

Question 34

- Having fun - being too busy - not being busy enough

Answer 34

Factors that influence time perception

Question 35

- liners-separable - very optimistic - procedural-traditional - completing the task is more important than the time it takes - circular-traditional - pessimistic view

Answer 35

3 models of time perception and characteristics of each

Question 36

- the us population is growing older - the number of households is increasing, but the number of people in household is decreasing - the divorce rate is declining - families in the US have become increasingly mobile

Answer 36

Various population statistics highlighted in class

Question 37

- fertility rate - mortality rate - immigration

Answer 37

3 factors which affect population numbers

Question 38

- women are bearing children later in life - teen pregnancies declining - better health care - by 2019, US increases in population will be higher from immigration than from birth rates

Answer 38

Various trends with regard to births and death rates and immigration

Question 39

Households are more mobile now

Answer 39

Trends regarding population age, households, divorce, mobility, ect.

Question 40

- one parent stay at home and not work outside the home - extended-family or neighborhood support - day care centers - company day care offerings

Answer 40

Various ways to manage child care

Question 41

- differences in values - differences in perception - role perceptions - difference in methods

Answer 41

Sources of conflict regarding balancing work and family

Question 42

- on-site day care and elder care - time off for family responsibilities (FMLA-type leave, sick leave,flextime) - other types of onsite services (wellness, educational,seminars, ect.)

Answer 42

Family supportive workplace policies

Question 43

Parents School Employers

Answer 43

Where do we learn our work ethic?

Question 44

- tends to be more polite, responsible, conservative - strong sense of discipline and order - tends to resist social change - embraces change in the workplace

Answer 44

Characteristics of one with strong work ethic

Question 45

- can't stop thinking about work, doing work - work is the Mose pleasurable part of life - having trouble sleeping, relaxing, being alone or with with family - not organized or productive - adversely affects relationships

Answer 45

Characteristics of a workaholic

Question 46

- seldom finish a task, un dependable - often lets down co-workers or employees - is a way of resisting growing up and accepting responsibility

Answer 46

Characteristics of a procrastinator

Question 47

- alarm reaction (fight or flight) - resistance (the action taken) - exhaustion (the rest after the event)

Answer 47

Physical pattern of response to emergency-related stress

Question 48

- Children worry most about their parents rather than themselves - Signals of child stress - crying often - Appetite changes - Can't sleep - Complaining of physical ailment that keeps them form going to school - Parents figure it out and reassure a child that we had a fight but no divorce and we are sick but not going to die - Don't force a child to be around adults that they feel uncomfortable around during this time - Be flexible in their schedule

Answer 48

Children and stress

Question 49

The conscious control of our time to fulfill our needs

Answer 49

Time management