chapter 14 Flashcards
____________________ offers a moratorium, or time out, from developmental pressures and allows young people the freedom to experiment with various roles and lifestyles.
Emerging adulthood
All three components of love—intimacy, passion, and commitment—are absent. This describes most interpersonal relationships, which are simply casual interactions.
Nonlove
Erikson’s sixth stage of psychosocial
development, in which young adults
either form strong, long-lasting bonds
with friends and romantic partners or
face a possible sense of isolation and
self-absorption.
intimacy versus isolation
Theoretical model of personality,
developed and tested by Costa and
McCrae, based on the “Big Five”
factors underlying clusters of related
personality traits: openness to
experiences, conscientiousness,
extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.
five-factor model
Who made the “five-factor model”?
Paul T. Costa and Robert R. McCrae
Theoretical model of personality
development that describes adult
psychosocial development as a
response to the expected or
unexpected occurrence and timing
of important life events.
timing-of-events model
Intimacy and commitment are both present. This is a long-term, committed friendship, often occurring in marriages in which physical attraction has died down but in which the partners feel close to each
other and have made the decision to stay together.
Companionate love
Dynamic capacity to modify one’s
level of ego-control in response to
environmental and contextual
influences.
ego resiliency
Traditionally, ____________ was defined by
markers such as moving out of the family home, marriage, children, full-time employment, or the establishment of a career.
adulthood
What factors influences the individual paths to adulthood?
- gender
- academic ability
- early attitudes toward education
- race and ethnicity
- expectations in late adolescence
- social class
Sternberg’s theory that patterns of love
hinge on the balance among three
elements: intimacy, passion, and
commitment.
triangular theory of love
Commitment is the only component present. Empty love is often found in long-term relationships that have lost both intimacy and passion, or in arranged marriages.
Empty love
All three components are present in this “complete” love. It is easier to achieve it than to hold on to it.
Consummate love
Intimacy is the only component present. There is closeness, understanding, emotional support, affection, bondedness, and warmth. Neither passion nor commitment is present.
Liking
Theoretical models that describe
psychosocial development in terms of a
definite sequence of age-related
changes.
normative-stage models (NSM)
an increasingly common lifestyle in which an unmarried couple involved in a sexual relationship live together.
Cohabitation
Intimacy and passion are both present. Romantic lovers are drawn to each other physically and bonded emotionally. They are not, however, committed to each other.
Romantic love
Passion is the only component present. This is “love at first sight,” a strong physical attraction and sexual arousal, without intimacy or commitment.
Infatuation
In the timing-of-events model,
commonly expected life experiences
that occur at customary times.
normative life events (NLE)
Process that underlies the shift to an
adult identity.
recentering
________________ people are active, energetic, impulsive, stubborn, and easily distracted.
Undercontrolled
Set of cultural norms or expectations for
the times of life when certain important
events, such as marriage, parenthood,
entry into work, and retirement, should
occur.
social clock
Theoretical models of personality
development that focus on mental,
emotional, temperamental, and
behavioral traits, or attributes.
Trait models
Passion and commitment are present without intimacy. This often leads to a whirlwind courtship in which a couple make a commitment without allowing themselves the time to develop intimacy. This kind of love usually does not last.
Fatuous love
