Early Adulthood

Question 1

senescence

Answer 1

natural decline with age

Question 2

basic, underlying, aging process

Answer 2

primary aging

Question 3

lifestyle choices that increase our aging process

Answer 3

secondary aging

Question 4

body weight that is 20% or more above average weight for a person of a given height

Answer 4

obesity

Question 5

physical and emotional response to events that threaten and challenge us

Answer 5

stress

Question 6

psychoneuroimmuniology

Answer 6

study of relationship among brain, immune system, psychological factors, says there are different outcomes of stress

Question 7

person’s assessment of an event to determine to whether the outcome is positive, negative, or neutral

Answer 7

primary appraisal

Question 8

Can I handle it? Are your coping strategies adequate enough to handle the situation?

Answer 8

secondary appraisal

Question 9

medical problem cause by interaction of emotional, psychological, and physical difficulties

Answer 9

psychodynamic disorder

Question 10

effort to learn how to cope, reduce, or deal with threats that lead to stress

Answer 10

coping

Question 11

attempt to reduce to stress by changing the situation

Answer 11

problem-focused coping

Question 12

conscious regulation of emotion

Answer 12

emotion-focused coping

Question 13

strategies that attempts to distort or deny the situation

Answer 13

defensive coping

Question 14

looking at trade offs

Answer 14

contextual validity

Question 15

we acquire a new ability to deal with fuzzy life issues

Answer 15

dialectical thought

Question 16

use creativity to deal with a situation and come up with one or no solutions

Answer 16

post formal thoughts

Question 17

all of childhood and adolescence; information we gathered before growing up is squirreled away for future use

Answer 17

acquisitive stage

Question 18

young adults confront many major issues which have implications for the rest of their lives

Answer 18

achieving stage

Question 19

people in middle adulthood are concerned with nourishing themselves and their family

Answer 19

responsible stage

Question 20

many people take a broader perspective and become concerned with the larger world

Answer 20

executive stage

Question 21

in late adulthood; people focus on dong tasks that have personal meaning

Answer 21

reintegrative stage

Question 22

depends heavily on education and experience; set of skills adults learn while growing up from culture

Answer 22

crystalized intelligence

Question 23

depends of efficient functioning of CNS; involves abstract reasoning

Answer 23

fluid intelligence

Question 24

enroll right after high school; usually economical well-off, conforming to parental expectation

Answer 24

traditional

Question 25

delay entering for more than one year after high school, independent from parents, employed at least part-time, enrolled at least part-time, have one or more children on average, possess a GED, are single parents

Answer 25

non-traditional

Question 26

include feelings of anxiety, loneliness, depression

Answer 26

first-year adjustment

Question 27

period between 20 and 40 as we become centered on our careers

Answer 27

career consolidation

Question 28

lasts until we are 11; career choices are made and discarded, without regard to skill, or available job opportunities; careers choices made solely on what sounds appealing

Answer 28

fantasy period

Question 29

we thing more practically about career choices; start to think about what might fit our interests

Answer 29

tentative period

Question 30

young adults explore specific careers option either through on the job training or experience

Answer 30

realistic period

Question 31

psychological timepiece that records that major milestone in one’s life

Answer 31

social clock

Question 32

spans periods of post-adolesencse to early 30’s; degree of selfishness, sacrificing one’s own needs for another; deep devotion- fusing one’s identity with another

Answer 32

intimacy versus isolation

Question 33

fills need for belongingness

Answer 33

friendships

Question 34

relationships that are built on surface, physical characteristics such as the way a person looks

Answer 34

stimulus stage

Question 35

occurs between 2nd and 7th encounter; relationship is characterized by increasing similarity of values and beliefs

Answer 35

value stage

Question 36

relationship stage is built on specific roles played by the participants

Answer 36

role stage

Question 37

state of powerful absorption in someone; intense physiological interest and arousal, caring for another’s needs

Answer 37

passionate love

Question 38

strong affection that we have for this with whom our lives are deeply involved

Answer 38

compassionate love

Question 39

feelings of closeness, affection, connectedness

Answer 39

intimacy component

Question 40

motivational drives related to sex, physical closeness, romance

Answer 40

passionate component

Question 41

embodies both the initial cognition that one loves another person and the long-term determination to maintain love

Answer 41

decision/commitment component

Question 42

tenancy to marry someone who is similar race, age, education. religion, other demographic characteristics

Answer 42

homogamy

Question 43

tenancy to for men to marry women who slightly younger, smaller. lower in status; tendency for women to marry men who are older, lager, higher in status

Answer 43

marriage gradient