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Young Adulthood Flashcards

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o Three criteria defines “Adulthood”

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 Accepting responsibility for oneself
 Making independent decisions
 Becoming financially independent

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represents a period of time during which young adults can figure out who they are and what they want to be
 Characterized by: identity exploration, instability, self-focused, feeling in-between, and age of possibilities

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o Emerging Adulthood

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any surgery that is carried out to induce weight loss, and it generally involves rerouting or removing parts of the stomach or small intestine

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o Bariatric Surgery

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manage emotions by refusing to think about an issue or reframing the event in the positive light

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o Emotion-Focused Coping

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involves addressing an issue head-on and developing action-oriented ways of managing and changing a bad situation

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o Problem-Focused Coping –

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consuming more than 14 drinks a week or 4 drinks on any single day for men and more than 7 drinks a week or 3 days on any single day for women

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o Risky Drinking

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active engagement in a broad range of social relationships, activities, and roles

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o Social Integration

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refers to material information, and psychological resources derived from the social network on which a person can rely for help in coping with stress

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o Social Support

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long term physical condition characterized by compulsive drinking that a person is unable to control

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o Alcoholism

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– stereotyped pattern of role prescriptions for how individuals should behave sexually

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o Sexual Script

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forcible sexual intercourse

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o Rape

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coercive sexual activity directed at someone with whom the perpetrator is at least casually acquianted

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o Date or Acquaintance Rape

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disorder that produces physical discomfort and emotional tension for up to 2 weeks before menstrual period
 Response to monthly surges of female hormones
 More typical in women in their 30s or older

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o Premenstrual Syndrome

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caused by contractions of the uterus which are set in motion by prostaglandin

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 Dysmenorrhea

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inability to conceive a baby
 Common causes in women: failure to produce ova, mucus in the cervix or disease of the uterine lining

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o Infertility

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active, persistent, and careful consideration of information or beliefs
 Continually question facts, draw inferences, and make connections
 Frequently engage in critical thinking

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o Reflective Thinking

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– characterized by the ability to deal with inconsistency, contradiction, and compromise
 Draws on intuition and emotion as well as logic to help people cope with situations such as social dilemmas
 Acknowledges that there may be more than one valid way of viewing an issue and that the world is made up of shades of gray

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o Postformal Thought

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Children acquire info and skills mainly for their own sake or as preparation in society

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Acquisitive Stage (Childhood and Adolescence)

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They use what they know to pursue goals

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Achieving Stage (Late teens or early twenties to thirties)

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Use their minds to solve practical problems associated with responsibilities to others

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Responsible Stage (Late 30s to early 60s)

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Responsible for societal systems or social movements

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Executive Stage (30s or 40s through middle age

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Enter retirement reorganize their lives and intellectual energies around meaningful pursuits that take place of paid work

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Reorganizational Stage (end of middle age, beginning of late adulthood)

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Focus on the purpose of what they do and concentrate on tasks that have most meaning for them

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Reintegrative Stage (Late Adulthood)

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Older people may create instructions for the disposition of prized possessions, make funeral arrangements, provide oral histories, or write their life stories as legacy for their loved ones

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Legacy-Creating Stage (advanced old age)

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analytical abilities

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o Componential Knowledge

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original thinking, experience-based

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o Experiential Intelligence –

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knowing your way around

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o Contextual Intelligence

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– inside information, know-how, “hacks”, not formally taught or openly expressed; commonsense knowledge of how to get agead
 Includes self-management, management of tasks, and management of others

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o Tacit Knowledge

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refers to four related skills: the abilities to perceive, use, understand, and manage or regulate emotions to achieve goals (Salovey & Mayer, 1990

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o Emotional Intelligence
 Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test)

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o In Kohlberg’s Postconventional Morality, people became more capable of fully principled moral reasoning, and that they made moral decisions on the basis of universal principles of justice
o Culture affects the understanding of morality

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Moral Reasoning

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taking a year off from formal education or the workplace

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o Gap Year

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– courses are delivered via mail, internet, or other technological means

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o Distance Learning

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– students decide for themselves, ideally, what they want to believe

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o Commitment within Relativism

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– the degree of thought and independent judgement it requires – and a person’s flexibility in coping with cognitive demands

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o Substantive Complexity

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cognitive gains from work carry over to nonworking hours

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o Spillover Hypothesis

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time out from developmental pressures and allow young people the freedom to experiment various roles and lifestyles

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o Emerging adulthood offers Moratorium

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name for the process that underlies the shift to an adult identity

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o Recentering

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Individual is still embedded in the family of origin, but expectations for self-reliance and self-directedness begin to increase

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Stage 1: Beginning

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Individual remains connected to but no longer embedded within the family of origin

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Stage 2: During

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Marked independence from the family of origin and commitment to a career, a partner, and possibly children

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Stage 3: Usually by Age 30

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self-conscious crisis that ideally leads to a resolution and identity achievement status

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o Moratorium

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theoretical approaches that hold that adults follow a basic sequence of age-related psychosocial changes

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o Normative-Stage Models

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– a mutual devotion between partners who have chosen to share their lives and have children

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o Love

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tendency to become intimate too freely, too easily

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o Maladaptive Tendency: Promiscuity

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tendency to isolate oneself from everyone

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o Malignant Tendency: Exclusion

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holds that the course of development depends on when certain events occur in people’s lives

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o Timing-of-Events Model –

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those typically happen at certain times of life

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those typically happen at certain times of life

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o Normative Life Events (Normative Age-Graded Events)

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society’s norms for appropriate timing of life events

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o Social Clock

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– psychological models that focus on the measurement and examination of different traits

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o Trait Models

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– Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism

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o McCrae’s Five-Factor Model

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seeks to complement and expand trait research by looking at personality functioning whole

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o Typological Approach

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well-adjusted, self-confident, articulate, attentive, helpful, Cooperative, task-focused

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o Ego-Resilient

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shy, quiet, anxious, dependable, tend to keep thoughts to themselves and withdraw from conflict, subject to depression

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shy, quiet, anxious, dependable, tend to keep thoughts to themselves and withdraw from conflict, subject to depression

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o Overcontrolled

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active, energetic, impulsive, stubborn, and easily distracted

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o Undercontrolled

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o Three Attachment Styles

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  1. Secure – have positive views in relationships, find it easy to get close to others, and are not overly concerned about romantic relationships
  2. Avoidant – hesitant about getting involved in romantic relationships and once they do, they distance themselves to their partners
  3. Anxious – demand closeness, less trusting, more emotional, jealous, and possessive
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– treated as family members despite a lack of blood relationship

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o Fictive Kin

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the way love develops is a story. The loves are its authors, and the story they create reflects their personalities and their conceptions of love.

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o Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love

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o Three elements of love

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a. Intimacy – emotional element, involves self-disclosure, which leads to connection, warmth, and trust
b. Passion – motivational element, based on inner drives that translate physiological arousal into sexual desire
c. Commitment – cognitive element, the decision to love and make the relationship work (exclusive or marry)

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No intimacy, passion, nor commitment
Casual Interactions
e.g., friends, acquaintances

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Nonlove

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Intimacy present
There is closeness, understanding, emotional support, affection, bondedness, and warmth
e.g., ka-talking stage mo na ayaw makipag-meet up at walang label

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Liking

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Passion present
Strong physical attraction
e.g., crushes, someone na naka-salubong mo sa kanto tapos crush mo agad

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Infatuation

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Commitment only
Found in long-term relationship that have lost both intimacy and passion
e.g., arranged marriage (justin-hailey charot)

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Empty Love

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Intimacy and Commitment present
Long-term, committed friendship, no physical attraction
e.g., Couple with no sex life charot, BESTIEEEEES

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Companionate Love

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Passion and Commitment only
Couple makes commitment without allowing themselves to develop intimacy
e.g., Fuck Buddies

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Fatuous Love

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Consummate Love

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All three components completed
e.g., SANA ALL

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relationships of friendships blended with physical intimacy, but little commitment

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o Friends With Benefits

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– unmarried couple involved in sexual relationship live together

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o Cohabitation

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