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Developmental Psychology Unit 3 Flashcards

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Puberty

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Years of rapid physical growth and sexual maturation that end childhood, producing a person of adult size, shape, and sexuality

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Menarche

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First menstrual period signaling ovulation

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3
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How does family stress and conflict affect the onset of puberty?

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Hastens in girls

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For boys, what is the usual sequence of physical changes of puberty?

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Growth of testes, pubic hair, penis, spermarche

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For girls, what is the usual sequence of physical changes of puberty?

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Growth of breasts, pubic hair, growth spurt, menarche

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6
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First hormones to begin puberty?

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Gonadotropin-releasing hormone

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First signs of growth spurt?

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Increased appetite and weight

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What is the last body part to grow from the growth spurt?

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Torso

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9
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Primary sex characteristics

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Parts of the body directly involved in reproduction

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Secondary sex characteristics

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Physical traits not directly involved in reproduction but that indicate sexual maturity

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Adolescent egocentrism

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Adolescents focus on themselves and on what others think of them

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12
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At what age does the brain fully mature?

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25

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Imaginary audience

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Other people are watching and taking note of appearance, ideas, and behavior

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Invincibility fable

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Idea that death will not occur unless it is destined

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Formal operational thought

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Piaget’s 4th stage characterized by more systematic logical thinking and by the ability to understand and systematically manipulate abstract concepts

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16
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What question(s) are crucial for adolescent personality development?

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Who am I?

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17
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Identity vs. role confusion

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Discovering oneself or confused about who to be/who they are

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18
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Identity achievement

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When people know who they are as unique individuals, combining past experiences and future plans

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19
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Role confusion

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No clear identity, fluctuating from one persona to another

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20
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Foreclosure

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Adopt parents’ or society’s’ roles and values without questioning

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21
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Negative identity

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Rejecting all elder’s values without questioning

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22
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Achievement

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Finding identity

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Moratorium

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Choice of a socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement decisions

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Diffusion

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Don’t explore or commit to an identity

25
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What is subject or source of most bickering between parents and teenagers?

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Curfews, clothing, cleanliness, activities

26
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What are the most common drugs taken by adolescents?

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Tobacco and alcohol

27
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Peer pressure

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Being pushed by friends to do something that wouldn’t normally do alone

28
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Emerging adulthood

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18-25

29
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Early emerging adulthood biological or physical health characteristics

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Reproductive system, motor skills, strength, and lung capacity all at best

30
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Fertility during emerging adulthood

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A woman in her 20s has a 25-30% chance of getting pregnant every month. Fertility generally starts to reduce when a woman is in her early 30s, and more so after the age of 35. By age 40, the chance of getting pregnant in any monthly cycle is around 5%

31
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Postformal thinking

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A person gains the ability to synthesize opposing ideas or feelings into a more complete understanding.

32
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What is the 2nd fastest time development of the brain?

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From birth to age 5

33
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What are factors of lifelong personality development?

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Physical environment, hereditary, experiences, and culture

34
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Intimacy

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Closeness between 2 people

35
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Intimacy vs. isolation

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Seek someone to share life with in an enduring and self-sacrificing way otherwise feel alone and isolated

36
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Organ reserve

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Extra power that each organ employs when needed

37
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Homeostasis

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A balance between various body reactions that keeps every physical function in sync with every other

38
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Allostasis

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Dynamic body adjustment that gradually changes body function

39
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What is the relationship of social networking on social isolation in emerging adulthood?

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An adult who spends 2+ hours on social media feels more isolated

40
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Dualism

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Knowledge is received, not questioned

41
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Multiplicity

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More than one solution to a problem or not solution, opinions matter

42
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Relativism

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Knowledge is contextual, evaluate evidence

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Commitment

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Integration of knowledge from other sources with personal experience and reflection, commit to values

44
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Cohabitation

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2 people living together in a romantic way

45
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Adulthood covers what years or decades of life (age range)

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Young - 20-39, Middle - 40-59, Old - 60-75, Old old - 75+

46
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Before age 65 what percent experience brain loss or problems?

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40%

47
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Effect of coping on aging and stress

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More difficult to cope because body can’t handle it the way it used to

48
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Sternberg 3 forms of intelligence

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Practical, creative, and analytical intelligence

49
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Expertise

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A high level of skill or knowledge

50
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Selective optimization of compensation

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A lifespan model of psychological and behavioral management for adaptation to changes related to human development and for adaptation to age-related gains and losses

51
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Expertise has what effect

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Occurs when the relative effectiveness of different learning conditions reverses with changes in the level of learner expertise

52
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Fluid intelligence

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Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems

53
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Fertility factors of adulthood

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Age, previous pregnancy, caffeine, timing and frequency of intercourse, lifestyle, duration of subfertility, weight, smoking

54
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Middle adulthood physical changes

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Gray hair, wrinkles, thick waist, hearing loss, worsening vision

55
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First signs of aging?

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Skin changes, hair loss or gray hair, sunken cheeks

56
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Menopause

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Menstruation cycle stops

57
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Exercise effects on aging

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Improves heart, lungs, bones, brain, muscles, and mood

58
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Crystal vs. fluid intelligence

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Fluid intelligence is the ability to process new info, learn, and solve problems and crystallized intelligence is stored knowledge accumulated over years

59
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Adult intelligence increases in what areas or domains?

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Acquired knowledge or by processes involved in reasoning and memory, especially working memory

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