Test 3 Flashcards
(59 cards)
The period of life between the ages of 18 and 25.
Emerging Adulthood
Forms of recreation that include apparent risk of injury or death and are attractive and thrilling as a result.
Extreme Sports
The ingestion of a drug to the extent that it impairs he user’s biological or psychological well-being.
Drug abuse
A proposed adult stage of cognitive development, following Piaget’s four stages. This stage goes beyond adolescent thinking by being more practical, more flexible, and more dialectical. (i.e., more capable of combining contradictory elements into a comprehensive whole).
Postformal thought
The possibility that one’s appearance or behavior will be misread to confirm another person’s oversimplified, prejudice attitudes.
Stereotype threat
The idea that establishing higher learning institutions and encouraging college enrollment could benefit everyone (the masses), leading to marked increases in the number of emerging adults in college.
Massification
The sixth of Erikson’s eight stages of development. Adults seek someone with whom to share their lives in an enduring and self-sacrificing commitment they risk profound loneliness and isolation.
Intimacy v. isolation
Having so many options that a thoughtful choice becomes difficult, and regret after making a choice is more likely.
Choice overload
An arrangement in which a couple live together in a committed romantic relationship but are not formally married.
Cohabitation
Lives in which the success, health, and well-being of each family member are connected to those of other members, including members of another generation, as in the relationship between parents and children.
Linked lives
The period of life between the ages of 35 and 50.
Middle age
A supposed period of unusual anxiety, radical self-reexamination, and sudden transformation that was once widely associated with middle age but that actually had more to do with developmental history than with chronological age.
Midlife crisis
The five basic clusters of personality traits that remain quite stable throughout adulthood: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Big Five
Imaginative, curious, artistic, creative, open to new experiences
Openness
Organized, deliberate, conforming, self-disciplined
Conscientiousness
Outgoing, assertive, active
Extroversion
Kind, helpful, easygoing, generous
Agreeableness
Anxious, moody, self-punishing, critical
Neuroticism
The particular lifestyle and social context that adults settle into because it is compatible with their individual personality needs and interests.
Ecological niche
Collectively, the family members, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers who move through life with an individual.
Social Convoy
People who are not in a person’s closest friendships but nonetheless have an impact.
Consequential strangers
Someone who becomes accepted as part of a family to which he or she has no blood relation.
Fictive kin
The time in the lives of parents when their children have left the family home to pursue their own lives.
Empty nest
The seventh of Erikson’s eight stages of development. Adults seeks to be productive in a certain way, perhaps through art, caregiving, and employment.
Generativity v. stagnation
