Adolescence and Adulthood

Question 1

Adolescence

Answer 1

the period of development and gradual transition between childhood and adulthood
•social construction
Age 12 to 18

Question 2

Puberty

Answer 2

a period of rapid maturation in which one becomes capable of sexual reproduction
•Biologically defined

Question 3

Adolescent egocentrism

Answer 3

highly self-focused thinking, particularly in the earlier teenage years
•On uniqueness and importance

Question 4

Personal Fable

Answer 4

The tendency for adolescents to overestimate their uniqueness of their feelings and experiences

Question 5

Imaginary Audience

Answer 5

The belief by adolescents that everybody is going to notice how they look and what they do

Question 6

Which part of the brains are most prominent for neural reconstruction during adolescence? What do these areas control?

Answer 6

Prefrontal cortex and limbic system

•Planning and coordinating behaviours that satisfy motivational goals, emotional urges, and moral decisions

Question 7

Post Formal Thought

Answer 7

the ability to reason logically about opposing points of view and to accept contradictions and irreconcilable differences
•Opposes Piagets thought that adults use formal operations in new and more complex ways

Question 8

Does fluid or crystallized intellectual abilities begin to decline first?

Answer 8

Fluid declines first

Question 9

What are 4 types of identity status?

Answer 9

1. Identity diffusion : not gone through identity crisis seem unconcerned and have no set values
2. Foreclosure: No identity crisis. Committed to an identity and values before a crisis
3. Moratorium: Not yet resolved identity crisis
4. Identity Achievement: Gone through and resolved identity crisis

Question 10

What is identity made up of

Answer 10

1. Gender, ethnicity and other things that help us define ourselves in a group
2. How we view our personal characteristics, goal and values

Question 11

What are some examples that needs to be achieved to be an adult?

Answer 11

Individualism, Family capacities, norm compliance, biological transitions, legal/chronological transition, role transitions

Question 12

What is cohabitation?

Answer 12

Couples living together without being married

Question 13

What are the 5 stages of death?

Answer 13

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

Question 14

True or false

Married people tend to be happier and live longer

Answer 14

True
•Marital satisfaction is high over the first year of marriage and declines during parenting but increases again when the kids move out.

Question 15

Zone of Proximal Development

Answer 15

The distance between the actual development level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance
•suggested by vygotsky

Question 16

What is r-k continuum?

What does r and k stand for?

Answer 16

Offspring production strategy
R= effort into producing babies
K= effort into caring for babies