Early Adulthood Section 11 Flashcards

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How does being the most researched demographic make early adulthood less unique?

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Most standard understanding of the brain comes from here, so there are less defining features to discover

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What is “emerging adulthood” and its defining characteristics?

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18-25 yrs old
- Transitional from teen to adult
- Not feeling like adult completely
- Big period for identity formation
- Freest time in life
- Instability caused by room for self-fixation
- Age of possibilities

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What is unique about emerging adulthood in the West?

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Western cultures provide YAs freedom while other cultures have certain aspects of life decided

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What are physical traits that define early adulthood?

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  • Best physical shape and last chance to change building blocks of body by 30 (ex: bone density)
  • Health habits become firmly established
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What are neurological traits that define early adulthood?

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  • Myelination of prefrontal cortex (stabilizes behavior from teens)
  • Elimination of synapses in brain until 30s
  • End of brain development, tho personality changes may still occur
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Who/how does schizophrenia develop?

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  • Men get it earlier and more severely, but equally in quantity
  • Prenatal complications w/ certain teen exposures inc risk
  • Heretic development is hard bc many genes are involved
  • Environmental stressors can combine with genetic risk in developing it
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What are the stages of schizophrenia?

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Premorbid , prodromal, onset/deterioration, chronic/resideual

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What is the premorbid stage?

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0-10 yrs: Mild motor, cognitive, and social impairments

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What is the prodromal stage?

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10-20 yrs: Unusual, psychotic like behaviors

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What is the onset/deterioration stage?

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20-30 yrs: Positive, negative, cognitive, and mood symptoms

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What is chronic/residual stage?

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30+ yrs: positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms

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What are markers of adulthood?

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  1. Full-time employment
  2. financial independence
  3. Setting up house and family situation
  4. Self-responsibility
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How can markers of adulthood differ by culture?

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Some countries require military service for EAs, people live w/ family for most of EAs, job culture is diff for agrarian societies

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How does employment affect married couples?

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Job location affects both people, but together total income increases

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What are EA’s relationship with chronic stress ?

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Things like marriage, kids, etc are chronic stressors but can be mitigated by healthy lifestyle decisions

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Why are friendships important in this time of life?

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Friendships are chosen, flexible, replaceable, similar aged, and important for opportunities and information

17
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Features of adult friendships include…

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Higher rates of cross-gender friendships, preference for similarities, and men are less close but engage in more dangerous/competitive activities than women

18
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What is Post-formal thought in Piaget’s operations?

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Thought development from adolescence to EA consisting of being more reflective, realistic, present, and self-aware

19
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How does personality stabilize in EA?

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Acc to meta-analysis, less changes and challenges from settling into adulthood causes less personality changes

20
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What is Erikson’s psychosocial development for EA?

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Intimacy vs. Isolation: Failure to achieve intimacy causes isolation, but too much intimacy and commitment can infringe on independence

21
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What are trends in cohabitation?

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People are living with unmarried partners as opposed to married partners much more than they used to

22
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What affects people’s attraction to another?

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Proximity (people you see often) and familiarity (people who are similar to you)

23
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What is consensual validation?

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One’s own values and attitudes are supported by being with someone who shares them

24
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What is the matching hypothesis?

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We gravitate to people who match our level of attractiveness (Tho sometimes men with lots of money get away with unevenness)

25
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What is homophily?

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Liking people who are in similar demographics (education, income, race, attractiveness, etc)

26
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How are dating apps involved in dating nowadays?

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Despite starting for people in minority dating pools, it has become a mainstream way to meet a partner and doesn’t largely impact martial satisfaction

27
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What are the different regulation types?

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Balanced (healthy), hypo-regulation (suppression), and hyper-regulation (exaggeration)

28
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What are the different types of attachment?

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Stable secure (balanced), stable insecure (hypo-regulated), unstable insecure (hyper-regulated)

29
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Why do people choose cohabitation?

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People get to live with each other without dealing with the limitations of marriage (Relationship satisfaction goes down after marriage)

30
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Who is more likely to cohabitate?

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Low income people cohabitate with high income people marry

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