Chapter 10 Flashcards
Emerging Adulthood
Period between late teens and mid-late 20s when people aren’t adults, but aren’t adols either
Rites of Passage
Rituals marking initiation into adulthood
Role Transition
Movement into the next stage of development marked by assumption of new responsibilities and duties
Returning Adult Students
College students over age 25
Edgework
The desire to live life more on the edge through physically and emotionally threatening situations on the boundary between life and death
Intimacy v. Isolation
Sixth stage in Erikson’s theory and the major task for young adults
Binge Drinking
Type of drinking defined for men as more than 5 drinks in a row and for women more than 4 drinks in 2 hours
Addiction
Physical dependence on a substance such that withdrawal symptoms are expected when deprived of that substance
Metabolism
How much energy the body needs
Low-Density Lipoprotiens
(LDLs) Chemicals that cause fatty tissues to accumulate in arteries, impeding blood flow
High-Density Lipoprotiens
(HDLs) Chemicals that help keep arteries clear and break down LDLs
Body Mass Index
A ratio of body weight and height and is related to total body fat
Multidimensional
Characteristics of theories of intelligence that identify several types of intellectual abilities
Multidirectionality
Developmental pattern in which some aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects decline during adulthood
Interindividual Variability
Patterns of change that vary from one person to another
Plasticity
Concept that intellectual abilities are not fixed but can be modified under the right conditions at just about any point in adulthood
Primary Mental Abilities
Groups of related intellectual skills; such as memory or spatial ability
Secondary Mental Abilities
Broader intellectual skills that subsume and organize the primary abilities
Fluid Intelligence
Abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker, and enable you to understand the relations among concepts
Crystallized Intelligence
The knowledge you have acquired through life experience and education in a particular culture
Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory
(P-FIT) Proposes that intelligence comes from a distribution and integrated network of neurons in the parietal and frontal lobes of the brain
Post Formal Thought
Thinking characterized by recognizing that the correct answer varies from one situation to another, that solutions should be realistic, that ambiguity and contradiction are typical, and that subjective factors play a role in thinking
Reflective Judgement
Way in which adults reason through real-life dilemmas
Life-Span Construct
A unified sense of the past, present, and future based on personal experience and input from other people
Scenario
Manifestation of the life-span construct through expectations about the future
Social Clock
Tagging future events with a particular time or age by which they are to be completed
Life Story
A personal narrative that organizes past events into a coherent into a sequence
Possible Selves
Representations of what we could become, what we would like to become and what we are afraid of becoming
Personal Control Beliefs
The degree ti which you believe your performance in a situation depends on something you do
Primary Control
Behavior aimed at affecting the individual’s external world
Secondary Control
Behavior or cognition aimed at affecting the individual’s internal world
