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What is emerging adulthood?

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Period between ages 18-25

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How do young adults rate themselves on their health?

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They think they are healthy and in good health

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Ages 18 through 25 is the prime time for what?

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Physical work and childbearing

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Growth and strength of emerging adults

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They have most likely reached their full height (girls 16, boys1 18), muscle and fat accumulation continue into early 20’s

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Women attain which 2 characteristics in emerging adulthood?

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Adult breasts and hip size

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Men attain which 2 characteristics in emerging adulthood?

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Shoulder width and upper-arm strength

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Development of body systems and body regulation at this stage

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Immune system is well developed, BP normal, Heart rate steady, brain is fully grown, lung capacity is at its largest

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Senescence

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Process of aging, begins late adolescence (increases allostatic load)

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Organ reserve

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The capacity of organs to allow the body to cope with stress using functioning ability

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Maximum strength potential

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Declines at 25

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Fifty year olds retain what percent of their muscle they had at age 20

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90%

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Homeostasis during this stage

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Keeping body systems in a state of equilibrium, adapting to stress, balancing nutrition and exercise, homeostasis requires immediate response from systems

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Allostasis during this stage

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Dynamic body adjustment that affects overall physiology, Allostasis refers long term adjustment

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Allostatic load

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Refers to the wear and tear on the body the results from stress or inefficient management of stress

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Appearance at this stage

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Look vital and attractive, vanity about appearance , appearance concern may be connected to sex drive or employment-seeking

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Staying healthy at this stage

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Exercise reduces BP, strengthens heart and lungs (those who are not fit during this stage are 4 times more likely to have diabetes and HBP 15 yrs later)

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Factors that encourage exercise

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Friendship and communities

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What is a set point with staying healthy

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A certain body weight that a persons homeostatic processes strive to maintain

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BMI

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The ratio of a persons weight in Kg divided by his or her height in meters squared

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CARDIA study

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(1) Diets matter (2) Fast food and junk food had an independent effect

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Sexual activity at this stage

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Sexual-reproductive system is especially vigorous, peaked sex hormones, sex drive powerful and ifnertility is rare

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Average woman in her 20’s becomes pregnant within how many months?

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3

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Half of cases of STI’s occur with which age and below?

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26 and under

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3 reasons for sex

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Reproduction, Relationship 1/2 , Recreation 1/4

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Stresses of emerging adults leading to what?
Demands cause psychopathology
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Diathesis-stress model
View that mental disorders are produced by interaction of genetics (diathesis) and a stressful environment and life events
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Mood disorders at this stage
Depressive disorder which is the loss of interest or pleasure for 2 weeks or more
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Anxiety disorders at this stage
Shaped by age and genetic vulnerability, Hikikomori is common in Japan where young adults isolate themselves, Include panic attacks, PTSD, OCD
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Schizophrenia
Begins in adolescence, the risk is malnutrition, genetic and pressure
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Risk taking
Emerging adults are willing to take more risks, can be because of social and biological reasons
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Homicide victims and offenders
Ages 18-25 take up more than half of the stats
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Edgework
Occupations, rec activities or other ventures that involve a degree of risk or danger, appeal of living on the edge
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Extreme sports
Forms of rec that include apparent risk of injury or death and that are attractive and thrilling as a result
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One student recruited to drink heavily leads to what response from group?
Group follows social norm of the risk taking confederate
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One student recruited to drink very little leads to what response from group?
Group followed the social norm of the cautious confederate
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No confederate student recruited leads to what response from group?
Group alcohol consumption similar to group with cautious confederate
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Social norms approach
A method of reducing risky behavior by making people aware of their actions
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Substance abuse is greatest when?
Greatest at emerging adulthood
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Social norms on emerging adults
Exerts strong influence on emerging adults, including college students
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Base rate neglect
Involves tendency to overlook or ignore the frequency of a specific factor when making judgements
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Availability error
Occurs when people remember easily the events or people who make dramatic impact
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Stage approach
Describes shifts in the nature of thought, as in post formal which follows the formal stage
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Psychometric approach
Analyzes intelligence via IQ tests and other measures
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Information-processing approach
Studies how the brain encodes, stores and retrieves info
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Post formal thought
After piagets 4th stage, characterized by "problem finding" extends adolescent thinking by being more practical, flexible and dialectical
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Delay discounting
Tendency to undervalue, or ignore, future consequences and rewards in favor of immediate gratification (reduced one prefrontal cortex matures)
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Cramming is considered what
A social experience that is ineffective
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Labouvie-vief investigated age differences in self descriptions
Protective (high self involvement, low self doubt), Dysregulated (overwhelmed by emotions), Complex (Valuing openness and independence) , Integrated (regulate emotions and logic)
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Cognitive flexibility
helps people deal with unforeseen events, hallmark of postformal cognition, involves listening to others and considering diverse opinions
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Stereotype threat
Possibility that ones appearance is misread by another persons oversimplified prejudice, causing people to doubt their ability and have anxiety
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Threat of Bias
If teacher thinks male student will do worse on their exam, then they will
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Elements of dialectical thought
Thesis (proposition or statement) , Antithesis (proposition that opposes thesis), Synthesis (new idea that integrates thesis and antithesis)
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Dialectical thought is found most in what age group?
Middle aged people
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Morals and religion
Maturation of values appear first in emerging adulthood
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Moral thinking and age
As you get older, moral thinking improves
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Gender differences: Morality of care
Females reluctant to judge right and wrong in absolute terms due to socialization
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Gender differences: Morality of justice
Tendency of males to emphasize justice over compassion and judging right and wrong in absolute terms
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Defining Issues Test: DIT
Way to measure moral thinking by having the test takers rank possible solutions to moral dilemmas (James Rest) [Score rises with age]
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Stages of faith
(1) Intuitive-projective faith: thinks of faith as magical (2) Mythic literal faith: take religious stories literally (3) Synthetic- conventional faith: conformist stage (4) Individual reflecting faith: stems from approval of people (5) Conjunctive faith: Powerful emotional ideas (6) Universalizing faith: have a powerful vision of universal compassion
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New pedagogical techniques that foster greater learning
Flipped classes, Massive open online courses
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What can happen if identity conflict isn't solved
One can be uncertain and negative about values, lifestyle and friendships
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What can happen if intimacy conflict isn't solved
Anxious about close relationships, jealousy and loneliness
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Self esteem decline or incline?
Only a minority experience a decline in self esteem
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Plasticity
Openness to new experiences allow personality shifts and stimulates eagerness for more education
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Males and same-sex friends
Greater number of friends, demand less of friends, less emotional
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Cross-sex friendships
Differences more cultural than biological, helps expand self and gender boundaries
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Female and same-sex friendships
More intimate, Share personal information, more emotional
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Intimacy
Passion to Intimacy to Commitment to either cohabitation or marriage (sternberg)
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Seven forms of love
(1) liking, Infatuation, Empty love, Romantic love, Fatuous love, Companionate love, Consummate love
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Cohabitation
Adults consider it as an effective prelude to marriage
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Young adult relationships
Often problematic
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Divorce rate and marriage rate
Divorce rate is half the marriage rate
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Homogamy
Marriage between two people who tend to be similar
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Heterogamy
Marriage between people who tend to be dissimilar
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Social Homogamy
Similarity of a couples leisure interests and role preferences
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Conflict: Demand/withdraw interaction
Situation in a romantic relationship wherein one person wants to address an issue and the other refuses
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Situational couple violence
Fighting between romantic couples that is brought on more by the situation than by personality problems
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Intimate terrorism
Violent and demeaning form of abuse in a romantic relationship where the victim is too scared to fight back, seek help, withdraw
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Linked lives
Where the success, health and well being of each family member are connected to those of other members
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Financial support
Parents of all income levels in U.S help their adult children
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Global perspective
Parental support and linked lives are typical everywhere

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