Adam reacts to difficult or negative situations at such a high level that it affects his normal effective functioning. He has a high level of emotional

According to Erikson, failure to achieve generativity results in

intermittent feelings of loneliness. stagnation and personal impoverishment. childlessness and a career orientation. difficulties in mate selection or friendship.

To psychologists, motivation refers to ________

a. a state of tension resulting from the deprivation of physical needs, such as those for food and water. b. a process in which an individual sets goals in order to increase his or her competence and skills. c. an inferred process within a person or animal that causes that organism to move toward a goal or away from an unpleasant situation. d. movement through a hierarchy of needs, beginning with survival needs for sleep, food, and water and reaching needs for self-actualization.