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Chapter 10-12 Flashcards

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Emerging childhood

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Period between late teens and mid to late twenties when individuals are not adolescents but are not yet fully adults

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Rites of passage

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Rituals marking initiation into adulthood

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Role transitions

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Movement into the next stage of development marked by assumption of new responsibilities and duties

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Returning adult students

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College student over age 25

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Edgework

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Desire to live life more on the edge, boundary between life and death

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Intimacy vs. isolation

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Erickson’s sixth stage that deals with psychological task for young adults

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Binge drinking

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Type of drinking defined for men as consuming five or more drinks in a row and for women consuming four or more drinks

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Addiction

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Physical dependence on a substance such that withdrawal symptoms are experienced when deprived of that substance

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Metabolism

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How much energy the body needs

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Low density lipoproteins(LDLS)

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Chemicals that cause fatty deposits to accumulate in arteries impeding blood flow

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High density lipoprotein (HDLS)

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Chemicals that help keep arteries clear and break down LDLs

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Body mass index (BMI)

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Ratio of body weight and height related to total body fat

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Multidimensional

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Characteristics of theories of intelligence that identify several types of intellectual abilities

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Multidirectionality

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Developmental pattern in which some aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects decline during adulthood

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Inter-individual variability

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Patterns of change that vary from one person to another

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Plasticity

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Concept that intellectual abilities are not fixed but can be modified under the right conditions at just about any point in adulthood

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Primary mental abilities

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Groups of related intellectual skills (such as memory or spatial ability)

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Secondary mental abilities

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Broader intellectual skills that subsume and organize the primary abilities

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Fluid intelligence

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Abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker and enable you to understand the relations among concepts

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Crystallized intelligence

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The knowledge you have acquired through life experiences and education in a particular culture

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Post formal thought

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Thinking characterized by recognizing that the correct answer varies from one situation to another

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Reflective judgement

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Way in which adults reason through real life dilemmas

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Lifespan construct

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Unified sense of the past,present, and future based on person experience and input from other people

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Scenario

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Manifestation of the lifespan construct through expectations about the future

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Social clock

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Tagging future events with a particular time or age by which they are to be completed

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Life story

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A personal narrative that organizes past events into a coherent sequence

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Possible selves

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Representation of what we could become what we would like to become and what we are afraid of becoming

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Personal control beliefs

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The degree to which you believe your performance in a situation depends on something you do

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Primary control

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Behavior aimed at affecting the individual’s external work

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Secondary control

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Behavior or cognition aimed at affecting the individual’s internal world

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Assortative mating

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Theory stating that people find partners based on their similarities to each other

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Abusive relationship

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Relationships in which once person becomes aggressive toward the partner

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Battered woman syndrome

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Situation occurring when a woman believes that she cannot leave the abusive situation and may even go so far as to kill her abuser

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Cohabitation

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People in commuted intimate sexual relationships who live together but are not married

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Marital success

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Umbrella term referring to any marital outcome

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Marital quality

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Subjective evaluation of the couple’s relationship on a number of different dimensions

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Marital adjustment

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Degree to which a husband and wife accommodate to each other over a certain period of time

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Marital satisfaction

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Global assessment of one’s marriage

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Homogamy

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Similarity of value and interests

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Exchange theory

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Relationship such as marriage based on each partner contributing something to the relationship that the other would be hard pressed to provide

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Vulnerability stress adaptation model

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Model that proposes that marital quality is a dynamic process resulting from the couple’s ability to handle stressful events in the context of their particular vulnerabilities and resources

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Nuclear family

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Most common form of family in western societies consisting only of parents and children

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Extended family

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Most common form of family around the world one in which grandparents and other relatives live with parents and children

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Familism

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Idea that the family’s well being takes precedence over the concerns of individuals family members

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Covenant marriage

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Expands the marriage contract to a life long commitment between the partners within a supportive community

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Marriage education

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Idea that the more couples are prepared for marriage the better the relationship will survive over the long run

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Collaborative divorce

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Couples who want to negotiate a resolution of their situation rather than have a ruling imposed on them by a court or arbitrator

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