Chapter 10 Flashcards

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Emerging Adulthood

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Period between late teens and mid-late 20s when people aren’t adults, but aren’t adols either

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Rites of Passage

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Rituals marking initiation into adulthood

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Role Transition

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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 students over age 25

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Edgework

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The desire to live life more on the edge through physically and emotionally threatening situations on the boundary between life and death

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Intimacy v. Isolation

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Sixth stage in Erikson’s theory and the major task for young adults

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Binge Drinking

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Type of drinking defined for men as more than 5 drinks in a row and for women more than 4 drinks in 2 hours

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Addiction

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Physical dependence on a substance such that withdrawal symptoms are expected 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 Lipoprotiens

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(LDLs) Chemicals that cause fatty tissues to accumulate in arteries, impeding blood flow

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High-Density Lipoprotiens

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(HDLs) Chemicals that help keep arteries clear and break down LDLs

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Body Mass Index

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A ratio of body weight and height and is 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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Interindividual 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 experience and education in a particular culture

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Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory

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(P-FIT) Proposes that intelligence comes from a distribution and integrated network of neurons in the parietal and frontal lobes of the brain

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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, that solutions should be realistic, that ambiguity and contradiction are typical, and that subjective factors play a role in thinking

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Reflective Judgement

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Way in which adults reason through real-life dilemmas

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Life-Span Construct

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A unified sense of the past, present, and future based on personal experience and input from other people

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Scenario
Manifestation of the life-span construct through expectations about the future
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Social Clock
Tagging future events with a particular time or age by which they are to be completed
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Life Story
A personal narrative that organizes past events into a coherent into a sequence
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Possible Selves
Representations 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
The degree ti which you believe your performance in a situation depends on something you do
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Primary Control
Behavior aimed at affecting the individual's external world
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Secondary Control
Behavior or cognition aimed at affecting the individual's internal world