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Ch 10: Constructing an Adult Life Flashcards

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What are the features of emerging adulthood?

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Testing out adult roles, taking responsibility for your life

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What are the challenges of emerging adulthood?

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Social clock pressures

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What are the 3 crucial emerging adult concerns?

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College, career, and finding love

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What historical forces have shaped emerging adulthood?

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Longer life expectancy, education and the perceived need for college to be successful, uncertain modern life, Western perspective changes of self expression and “doing your own thing”

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How does emerging adulthood vary across southern Europe, Scandinavia, and the US?

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Southern Europe- young people live with their parents into their 30s due to religious and financial restraints
Scandinavia- cohabitation is accepted, marriage optional, better economy and emphasis on independence and government assistance so early nest leaving is normal
US- class differences, most people plan to marry but low income adults struggle to marry

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What are nest-leaving changes?

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Staying in the nest is often a practical adult choice

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What are social clock issues?

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Age norms, boundaries of emerging adulthood

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Do most college students finish college within 4 years?

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No

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What are the different identity statuses?

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Diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, achievement

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What is ethnic identity?

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Unique ethnic or racial heritage

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What stages are in emerging adulthood?

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Identity vs role confusion, intimacy vs isolation

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How is happiness predicted in emerging adulthood?

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Finding a career that expresses the inner self

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What impact does having a strong ethnic identity have on the individual?

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Depends on whether a young person engages productively in society, generally positive

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What self esteem changes do young people face after entering college?

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Self esteem drops as teens often overinflate their abilities

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What emotional growth do young adults experience?

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Become more mature

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What are the features and functions of flow states?

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Can alert people to their ideal careers

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What are the strategies for having a fulfilling college experience?

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Get involved in campus activities, get the best professors and make connections with them, reach out to students of different backgrounds

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What issues are related to completing college and transitioning to work?

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Students with GPAs lower than 3.0 have less than a 50/50 chance of graduating college, money is crucial since low income students are less likely to finish college than their affluent peers and they often cite financial issues as the main reason for leaving, lack of a real school to work transition in the US

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What changes in the search for love have occurred in the twenty first century?

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Same sex relationships are much more acceptable, most young people meet through the internet and are more Apt to be happily married than those who meet traditionally, more likely to marry outside their ethnic group, dating phase lasts longer

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What is Murstein’s theory?

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Stimulus value role theory

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What is the adult attachment theory?

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Secure, avoidant/dismissive, preoccupied

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What tips does the text suggest for finding fulfilling relationships?

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Find someone who is similar to your ideal self

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How does social media affect the passage to adulthood?

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Depends on how the young person uses social media

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What are Murstein’s phases of romantic relationships?

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Stimulus, value comparison, and role phase

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What is cohabitation?

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Sharing a household in an unmarried romantic-relationship

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What is nest-leaving?

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Moving out of childhood home and living independently

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What is the social clock?

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We regulate our passage through adulthood by referring to our society’s timetable that tells us which life activities are appropriate at certain ages

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What are age norms?

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Cultural ideas about the appropriate ages to engage in certain activities or life tasks

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What is being on time?

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Being on target in a culture’s time table for achieving adult life tasks

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What is off time?

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Being too early or late in a culture’s time table for achieving adult life tasks

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What is role confusion?

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Failure in identity formation, lack of any sense of a future adult path

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What are Marcia’s 4 identity statuses?

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diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, achievement

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What is identity diffusion?

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Aimless, feels totally blocked, without any adult life path

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What is identity foreclosure?

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Person decides on an adult path (often spelled out by authority figure) without thought or active search

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What is moratorium?

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Person actively explores different possibilities to find solid adult life path

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What is identity achievement?

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fully mature identity, person decides on a satisfying adult path

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What is biracial or multiracial?

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People of mixed racial backgrounds

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What is flow?

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Feeling in total absorption in a challenging, goal oriented activity

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What is relationship churning?

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On and off again romantic relationships where couples repeatedly get together and break up

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What is the stimulus value role theory?

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Similar people pair up and commitment happens through 3 phases

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What are the 3 phases of the stimulus value role theory?

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Stimulus, value comparison, role

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What is the stimulus phase?

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Initial stage, make judgments about a potential partner based on external characteristics like appearance

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What is the value comparison phase?

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Second stage, make judgments about a partner based on values and interests

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What is the role phase?

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Final stage, committed partners work out their future life together

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