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Janice, a five-year-old, has developed extensive power over her motor skills. She is more and more engaged in social interactions with others. She is learning a balance between eagerness for more adventure and more responsibility. She is trying to control her impulses and attempting to differentiate between reality and her childish fantasies. Because her caregivers are encouraging she has learned to accept responsibility without excessive guilt and is involved in using her imagination and active role playing or make-believe games. Which stage of Erickson’s model is she demonstrating?

Timothy, a boy of 11 years, is of short stature and extremely overweight. The boy had difficulty at birth. He was floppy and had poor muscle tone. He was underweight and had trouble with the sucking reflex. At 11, Timothy has poor motor skills, underdeveloped sexual organs, and is substantially overweight. Timothy has cognitive problems, learning disabilities, and mild intellectual disability. He is irritable, easily distracted and extremely difficult to control when thwarted. In addition, he complains of having overwhelming feelings of hunger, regardless of the amount of food he has consumed. His mother states, “Timothy is aggressive and difficult to control. He became angry with me one evening and I found him standing over my bed with a knife. He fights with his sister (13) and causes her to be so afraid of him that she stays at my mothers house as often as we allow. He throws tantrums when he doesn’t get his way. What is wrong with my son?”  

Kate is torn. She feels she should volunteer time on the weekends to the hospice program, but she also would like to hang out with her friends and have a good time. She decides to spend Sundays at the hospice and Saturdays with her friends. According to Freud, Kate’s __________ helped her reach this compromise.  

Eric, a 25-year-old man, is struggling with his relationship with his girlfriend, Amelia. She wants to get married and have a child. Eric’s family does not like Amelia, nor does Amelia’s family approve of Eric. Amelia wants to return to medical school to become a pediatrician (she is presently working in a bank.) Eric has worked in several jobs since finishing his bachelor’s degree in business. He was recently laid off at a factory where he had a floor supervisors position. He really doesn’t know what career to pursue. Although he knows he loves Amelia and wants to be with her he is not sure he is ready to commit to marriage right now.  Which of Erickson’s stages is this person illustrating?  

Adrian, 4, is taking in new information about his environment. He assimilates this information. His cognitive changes result in accommodation, which refers to a modification of his cognitive structures (schemas) to deal with new information. Piaget indicated that the balance between assimilation and accommodation is called what?      

This condition is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States. It causes episodes of pain, anemia, increased susceptibility to infection. In hemolytic crises the red blood cells break down and in aplastic crises, bone marrow fails to product blood cells. People from a number of countries have this condition but is more common in the U.S. in persons of African American or Hispanic ancestry. The disease is life threating and can cause stroke. This condition is called what?  

At eight years old, Kim was first abused by her uncle and his best friend. The abuse occurred for over two years until the abuse was discovered by her father who killed both men in the girl’s presence. Kim was also sexually attacked in high school when she went to a party at one of her friend’s houses. There was a lot of alcohol consumed and Kim felt guilty that she had gone to the party. She never mentioned the incident to her mother, because of her guilt and her previous experiences. In college, Kim was drugged at a fraternity party and found herself in the bed of what she thought was a male friend being sexually attacked. Kim did not remember any of the abuse until she began therapy at age 30 years. She began to see a therapist after a car accident that caused her to have a flash back. Freud would consider putting traumatic experiences into the unconscious what?                    

Oliver a two-year-old child attributes human-creating to all things, the sky, the moon, the sun, animals, and the tree outside his window. His mother is disturbed by his ideas, but we know that this passing phase of preoperational thought is called what?

(I) The average lifetime of a debt security’s stream of payments is called duration. (II) The duration of a portfolio is the weighted average of the durations of the individual securities, with the weights reflecting the proportion of the portfolio invested in each.

If you invest $20,000 and achieve an annual return of 15% for 30 years, the value of your investment will be____________