MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

CARDIOLOGY

VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is primarily a developmental task of middle age?
A
Learning and acquiring new skills and information
B
Rediscovering or developing satisfaction in one’s relationship with a significant other
C
Relying strongly upon spiritual beliefs
D
Risk taking and its perceived consequences
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Developmental Tasks Launching children into their own lives. Adjusting to home life without children (often referred to as the empty nest). Dealing with adult children who return to live at home (known as boomerang children in the United States). Becoming grandparents.

Detailed explanation-2: -Middle adulthood is the period of development that occurs between the ages of 46-65. During this stage physical changes start to occur that show that the body is ageing. These include the skin starting to lose elasticity and grey hair occurring because of the loss of pigments.

Detailed explanation-3: -middle age, period of human adulthood that immediately precedes the onset of old age. Though the age period that defines middle age is somewhat arbitrary, differing greatly from person to person, it is generally defined as being between the ages of 40 and 60.

Detailed explanation-4: -Robert Havighurst lists seven major tasks in the middle years. While a midlife crisis is not regarded as a universal phenomenon, during one’s 40s and 50s comes the recognition that more than half of one’s life is gone.

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