Exam 3 Flashcards
what is emerging adulthood?
how is it characterized
lengthy transition from adolescence to adulthood. 18-26/30
the key features:
- identity exploration – especially in love and work.
- instability – residential change ; instability in love, work, education.
- self-focused
- feeling “ in between” ( adolescence and adulthood)
- age of possibilities – opportunity to transform life.
What are some of the markers that we look at when shifting from adolescence to adulthood?
- full time employment
- economic independence
- accepting self responsibility
- making independent decisions.
- in developing countries, marriage is more often a significant marker.
physical development in early adulthood:
- peak performance between ages of 19-26
- muscle tone / strength declines around 30
- lens of eye losing some elasticity; less able to focus on near objects
- hearing begins to decline
- middle to late twenties; fatty tissue increases
what are the leading causes of death between the ages of 15 and 34?
accidents & suicide
what are some health issues that emerge in early adulthood
- inactivity (exercise)
- diet
- obesity
- substance use
- reproductive health care
- health care access worsened in emerging adults
what is overweight/ obesity linked to in young adulthood?
- hypertension (high blood pressure)
- diabetes
- mental health problems
- cardiovascular disease
what is aerobic exercise?
what are some benefits?
sustained exercise stimulating heart/ lung activity.
- reduces anxiety and depression.
- exercise and academic achievement are also linked.
what is the difference between moderate and vigorous activity?
moderate = a bit of sweating / hard breathing vigorous = considerable sweating/ heavy breathing
what are some things we can say about binge drinking and youth?
binge drinking peaks at 21-22 years old.
binge drinking on the rise in 25% of Canadian women between the ages of 20-34
when you drink when in young adulthood it may lead to addition faster than it would later in life.
Early adulthood sexuality.
tell me bout it.
contributing factors: family structures / peer influences
- female promiscuity (lots of partners) is often linked with internalized problems (anxiety and depression).
- male promiscuity often linked to externalized masculinity (I’m a real man now)
- casual sex tends to be linked with psychological distress.
- alcohol use can contribute to casual sex
Sexual orientation in young adults:
- is a spectrum
- women are more fluid in their sexuality
- orientation may derive from a combination of these factors: genetic, hormonal, cognitive, environmental factors.
- EW - when people have tried to do conversion therapy with hormones on gay people.. they kept their sexual orientation, and sex desire increased also (yay)
- LGBTQ2+ people still face prejudice
what is Piagets theory of early adulthood?
Formal operational thinking.
Final stage..
some theorize that many individuals consolidate formal operational thinking
plan + hypothesis in adolescence.
more systematic and sophisticated as young adults.
what is post-formal thought?
reflective, relativistic, contextual thinking; provisional; realistic; recognized emotional influences.
- -> handling situations with varying levels of delicacy and discernment.
- -> people have the abilities of the complexities of different situations and people have the ability to handle them appropriately.
What is Social Learning?
- Bandura *
- blow up doll -
- blow up doll-
social experiences (direct / indirect) are roots of learning.
you learn how you are supposed to act from others. // mimic others actions and repeat in your own way.
what is okay and not okay from other people.
video: when does your brain stop developing
* cognitive stuff*
- no such thing as a fully developed brain
- brain never stops changing
- does go through developmental stages
- brain full size by 10
- grey matter = bulk of neurones
white matter = stuff connecting it. (axons/ dendrites)
less grey matter more white matter as people get older. (pruning)
= better, stronger connections in pathways that remain.
What is Flow State?
- creative state*
- challenging (engaging) yet enjoyable state that one experiences when they are in the zone.
what are 6 ways we can encourage / initiate flow state
- be surprised by something daily
- surprise another person every day.
- write down your surprises
- follow your interests
- start your day looking forward to a goal
- spend time in places that stimulate creativity
What are some of the benefits of flow state?
- reduces stress and anxiety
- increases positive emotions
- decreases depressive symptoms
- reduces distress and negative emotions
- boosts the immune system
- increases self esteem and feelings of accomplishment
- improves concentration and focus
- increases happiness
flow state video:
- state perfect focus / not processing things moment by moment
- relaxed high performance
when you are first learning: frontal lobe lights up
when you know something : it moves into subconscious.
caffeine improves performance.
- practice and repetition improve flow state and performance.
Career & work has to do with purpose in young adulthood.
- earning a living
- choosing occupation
- establishing career
–> all important themes of the transition from adolescence to adulthood and are connected to achieving a sense of purpose.
- purpose can sometimes be missing for young adults.
- individuals focus on short term goals opposed to long term goals.
- many people define their identity through their work.
- some people get very depressed when they do not have regular work.
What are adult attachment styles?
secure - positive views of relationships ; easy to get close to others
avoidant - hesitant about romantic relationships (cuts things off)
anxious - demand closeness; clingy; less trusting; possessive.
What are the Big 5 personality factors?
define the 2 ends of each
OCEAN
Openness = imaginative, Interested in variety, Independent ———— practical, routine, conforming
Conscientiousness = organized, careful, disciplined ———– disorganized, careless, impulsive
Extraversion = sociable, fun loving, affectionate ——- retiring, somber, reserved
Agreaableness = soft hearted, trusting, helpful ——– ruthless, suspicious, uncooperative
Neuroticism (emotional stability) = calm, secure, self satisfied ———- anxious, insecure, self pitying.
what is the most effective way to assess someones personality?
their traits
What is love?
a complex array of human behaviour – spanning a range of relationships that include: intimacy, friendship, romantic love, affectionate love, and consummate love
What is intimacy?
- self disclosure / sharing of private thoughts
- Erikson stage = intimacy vs. isolation (6th developmental stage)
stress = managing demands of intimacy, identity and independence.
What is friendship?
say some stuff about it.
- important role in development throughout lifespan.
- adulthood = new friendships
- women have more close friendships and disclose more personal information
- men are more likely to do things together
- cross gender relationships are valuable but can cause issues.
What is romantic love?
- strong components of sexuality and infatuation
- often dominates early in a relationship (not sustainable kind of love… will shift into something more sustainable or it will end)
- intense
- sexual desire most important ingredient of romantic love
- intermingling of passion, fear, anger, sexual desire, joy and jealousy.
What is Affectionate love (companionate love)
- when someone desires to have other person near: deep, caring affection for the person
- as love matures, passions turn to affection.
- sexual attraction wanes, attachment anxiety either lessen or produce conflict and withdrawal
- if people feel trapped by their marriage at this stage they may cheat.
- honey moon phase over —-> familiarity and comfort replaced.
What is Sternberg’s triangle?
passion, intimacy and commitment (3 components)
shows what qualities each kind of love has (checks the boxes) of these 4 kinds of love: infatuation, affectionate love, fatuous love (a crush on someone from afar), consummate love.
passion = physical/ sexual attraction
intimacy = emotional feelings of warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship
commitment = cognitive appraisal of relationship and intent to maintain relationship even in face of problems.
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Infatuation = passion
Affectionate love = intimacy + commitment
Fatuous love = Passion + Commitment
(passion motivates a commitment)
Consummate love = passion + intimacy + commitment
How are families changing?
nuclear families are becoming less common.
what are some challenges that single adults face?
- forming intimate relationships with other adults
- confronting loneliness
- finding their niche in society that is marriage oriented.
what is cohabitation?
living together in a sexual relationship without marriage.
changing trends in marriage are:
- couples are choosing longer to get married
- many couples choose not to have children
What are some ideologies that never married men / women have?
– never-married men said the most important factor for a potential spouse was similar ideas about raising children..
– never-married women placed greater importance on having a partner with a steady job.
people who are in unhappy marriages or divorced statistically live about 4 years less than individuals who are in happy committed marriages.
happy = better health
ted talk: why 30 is not the new 20
- what is meant by ‘invest in your identity capital’?
- what does ‘ explore your weak ties’ mean?
- what is meant by ‘ pick your family’ ?
answer:
- what is meant by ‘invest in your identity capital’?
- do something that adds value to who you are
- do something that is an investment to who you want to be next.
- identity capital gets identity capital.
- act / live with purpose to form concrete idea of self. - what does ‘ explore your weak ties’ mean?
- expand your social network
- reach out to your friends of friends to find new jobs, ect.
- don’t get caught up in small social group you are in; explore people on the sidelines – you never know who will have an opportunity for you. - what is meant by ‘ pick your family’ ?
- when you partner with someone and create a family of your own
- being intentional with love. / consciously choosing who and what you want rather than just making it work or making time with whoever is choosing you.
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- claiming your 20’s is one of the most simple, yet most transformative thing you can do.
- 80% of life defining moments happens before 35
- brain caps off second and last growth spurt in 20’s
- personality changes more in 20’s than any other time in life
- female fertility peaks 28, gets tricky around 35
- 20’s critical period of adult development. / defining decade of adulthood.
- start making intentional choices.
What are some negative impacts of divorce?
- divorce rate peaks at about 7,8,9 years of marriage.
- higher rates of depression,
- anxiety ,
- physical illnesses,
- suicide,
- motor vehicle accidents,
- mortality,
- loneliness,
- diminished self esteem
divorce + remarriage… successful?
remaried adults often find it difficult to stay remarried.
sometimes individuals don’t get remarried for the right reasons:
sometimes this happens for financial help, help with children, reduce loneliness, might carry patterns that produced failure in earlier marriage.
What are some factors that contribute to a successful marriage?
- establishing love maps (know tiny little details about an individual that others don’t)
- nurturing fondness and admiration
- turning toward each other instead of away (when you have a fight)
- letting your partner influence you
- create shared meaning.
what are some things about parenting?
- mixed emotions / romantic illusions of having a child
- fathers and mothers bring different parenting practices to the relationship
- age when a woman has had her first child has risen; number of children has declined.
- older parents are more mature and benefit from life experiences for better parenting.
What are 5 strategies for dealing with divorce?
- divorce is chance to grow
- make decisions carefully
- focus more on the future
- use your strengths and resources to cope with difficulties
- don’t expect to be successful and happy in everything you do.
- post traumatic growth – positive psych term – faces adversity, come through it, do better post adversity than they did before
FISHER 302 for exam… Tuesday after easter Monday
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what are the two theroies of aging?
evolutionary theory of aging
and
cellular clock theory
what is the evolutionary theory of ageing?
natural selection has not eliminated many harmful conditions/ nonadaptive characteristics in older adults
- no natural selection for old age illnesses because we reproduce when we are young
e. g. Alzheimer’s disease may have been eliminated centuries ago if it occurred earlier in development. - women outlive men (pretty much in every species) –> women have more resistances to infections and degenerative diseases.
- men engage in risk taking and physical activities.
- natural selection is linked to reproductive fitness
what is cellular clock theory?
that our cells can only reproduce so many times
- the healthier the cell the more it can reproduce.
- TELOMERES = caps on ends of DNA that tell you how healthy you are – telomeres need to be a certain length for cells to reproduce.
- cells can divide a maximum of about 75 to 80 times
what are some of the ‘tell’ signs of aging?
- hair is thinner
- pigmentation on face and hands
- wrinkles
- weight gain
- loose height.
what is sarcopenia
age related loss of muscle mass and strength (especially in back and legs)
what is arthritis?
inflammation of joints accompanies by pain, stiffness, movement problems