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Emerging adulthood

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The phase of life that begins after high school, tapers of towards the late 20s devoted to constructing adult life

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Role

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The characteristic behavior that is expected of a person in a particular social position such as mother or wife or student

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Cohabitation

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Sharing a household in an unmarried relationship

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Nest leaving

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Moving out of childhood home and living independently

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Social clock

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The concept that we regulate our passage through adulthood by an inner time table that tells us which which life activities are appropriate at certain ages

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Age norms

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Cultural ideas about the appropriate ages for engaging in part activities or life tasks

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On time

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Being on target in a cultures time table for achieving adult life tasks

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Off time

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Being too late or early in cultures time table for life tasks

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Identity

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In eriksons theory, the life task of deciding who to be as a person in making the transiston to adulthood

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Role confusion

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Erickson term for a failure in identity formation marked by the lack of any sense of future adult path

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Identity statuses

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Marcia's four categories of identity 
Identity diffusion 
Foreclosure 
Moratorium 
And identity achievement
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Identity diffusion

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An identity status in which a person is aimless , without any adult life path

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Identity foreclosure

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An identity status in which a person decides on an adult life path spelled out by authority without any thought or search

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Moratorium

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An identity status in which the person actively searches out various possibilities to find a truly solid adult life path. A mature style of constructing an identity

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Moratorium in depth

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A focused real world look at ones chosen career to confirm that decision

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Ethnic identity

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How people come to terms with who they are as people relating to their unique ethnic or racial heiritage

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Bi racial or multiracial identity

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How people of mixed racial backgrounds come to terms with who they are with people in relation to their heritage

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Flow

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Csikszentmihalys term for feeling totally absorbed in a challenging goal oriented activity

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School to work

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The change from the school phase of life to the work world

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Intimacy

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Eriksons firstvadult task involving connecting with a partner in a mutually loving relationship

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Stimulus value role theory

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Mutations mate selection theory that similar people pair up and that our path to commitment involves three phases

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Homogamy

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The principle that we select a mate who is similar to us

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Adult attachment styles

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The different ways in which adults relate to romantic partners based on ainsworths infant attachment styles

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Preoccupied ambivalent insecure attachment

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A standoffish excessively clingy needy way of relating to loved ones

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Avoiding dismissive insecure attachment
Disengaged way of relating to loved ones
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Secure attachment
The genuine intimacy that's in ideal love relationships
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Disinstitutionalization of marriage
The deco line in marriage and emergence of alternate family forms that occurred in the last third of the 20th century
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Triangular theory of lov
Sternberg categorization of love relationships in 3 faucets Passion Intimacy Commitment
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Consummate love
Sternberg ideal love with three faucets
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Demand withdrawal interaction
A pathological way of communication in which woman press for more intimacy and man backs off
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Marital equity
Fairness in the work of a couples life together
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Fertility rate
The average member of children in a given country that a woman has during her life time
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Occupational segregation
The separation of men and women into different types of jobs
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Intrinsic career rewards vs extrinsic
Inner fuffilment vs external reinforcers
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Role overload
A job situation that places so many requirements or demands it is impossible for workers to do their jobs
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Role conflict
A situation in which a person is torn between two or more major responsibilities
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Big five
``` 5 core psychological predispositions Neurotiscism extraversion Openness Conscientiousness Agreeableness ```
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Age discrimination
Illegally laying off or failing to hire on age bias
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Old age dependency ratio
The fraction of people over 60 compared to younger working adults (expected to rise when baby boomers retire)
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Continuing bonds
A widowed persons ongoing sense of the deceased
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Intergenerational equity
Balancing needs of young and old
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Widowed mortality effect
The elevated risk of death that occurs among surviving spouses particularly men after being widowed
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Chronic disease
Any long term illness that requires ongoing treatment
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Adl problems
Difficulty in everyday tasks
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Instrumental adl problems
Difficulty cooking cleaning
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Basic adl problems
Difficulty rising form chair Eating Getting to bathroom
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Presbyopia
Age related mid life difficulty with near vision | Inability of lens to bend
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Lens
Transparent disc shaped structure in the eye which bends to allow us to see close objects
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Generativity
In eriksons theory the seventh psychological task in which people in midlife find meaning from nurturing the next generation
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Hedonic happy
Pleasure
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Eudianmonic happy
Having sense of purpose
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Commitment script
Mcadams A type of autobiography produced by highly generative adults that involved childhood memories of feeling special, being unusually sensitive to others, misfortunes, generative mission from adolescence an redemption sequence
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Redemption sequence
Mcadams A characteristic theme of highly generative adults autobiographies in which they describe tragic events thatvtured out for the best
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WAIS
Iq test | Verbal and performance scales with subtests
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Seattle longitudinal study
Longitudal to positive Cross sectional to negative Intelligence
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Crystallized intelligence
Atorehouse of accumulated info
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Fluid intelligence
The ability to quickly master new intellectual activities
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Terminal drop
Decline in vocabulary and forget crystal intelligence test as sign of terminal illness
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Selective optimization with compensation
``` Batle Three principles of successful aging Selectively focus on what's important Work to perform on those areas Rely on external aids to cope ```
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Post formal thoughts
A uniquely adult form of intelligence that involves being sensitive to different perspectives Making decisions based on ones inner feelings and being interested in new questions
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Presbycuss
Age related difficulty in hearing
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Osteoporosis
Bones become fragile
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Dementia
Term for any illness that produces serious progressive usually irreversible cognitive decline
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Vascular dementia
A type of age related dementia caused by strokes
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Alzheimer's
Dementia categorized by neural atrophy and abnormal byproducts of that atrophy Such as senile plaques and neuerfibulary tangles
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Neurofibulary ftangles
Long wavy filaments that replace normal neurons and characteristic of Alzheimer's
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Senile plaques
Bulletin like structures that replace normal neurons
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Alternative institutions
Services and settings designed to keep older people who are experiencing age related disability that don't merit intense 24 hour care from having to enter nursing homes
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Continuing care retirement
A housing option characterized by a series of levels of care for elderly fol apartments to nursing home care People can enter in good health for help when they become disabled
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Assisted living
Housing service for elderly who have instrumental adl problems but may not need nurse
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Day care program and
Service for elderly who live with relatives to spend day doing activities
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Home health services
Nurse oriented house leeping help provider in home of old person
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Nursing home
Provides shelter and basic care for those with basic adl problems
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Certified nurse assistant
Hands in care provider

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