FINAL Flashcards
Emerging adulthood
The phase of life that begins after high school, tapers of towards the late 20s devoted to constructing adult life
Role
The characteristic behavior that is expected of a person in a particular social position such as mother or wife or student
Cohabitation
Sharing a household in an unmarried relationship
Nest leaving
Moving out of childhood home and living independently
Social clock
The concept that we regulate our passage through adulthood by an inner time table that tells us which which life activities are appropriate at certain ages
Age norms
Cultural ideas about the appropriate ages for engaging in part activities or life tasks
On time
Being on target in a cultures time table for achieving adult life tasks
Off time
Being too late or early in cultures time table for life tasks
Identity
In eriksons theory, the life task of deciding who to be as a person in making the transiston to adulthood
Role confusion
Erickson term for a failure in identity formation marked by the lack of any sense of future adult path
Identity statuses
Marcia's four categories of identity Identity diffusion Foreclosure Moratorium And identity achievement
Identity diffusion
An identity status in which a person is aimless , without any adult life path
Identity foreclosure
An identity status in which a person decides on an adult life path spelled out by authority without any thought or search
Moratorium
An identity status in which the person actively searches out various possibilities to find a truly solid adult life path. A mature style of constructing an identity
Moratorium in depth
A focused real world look at ones chosen career to confirm that decision
Ethnic identity
How people come to terms with who they are as people relating to their unique ethnic or racial heiritage
Bi racial or multiracial identity
How people of mixed racial backgrounds come to terms with who they are with people in relation to their heritage
Flow
Csikszentmihalys term for feeling totally absorbed in a challenging goal oriented activity
School to work
The change from the school phase of life to the work world
Intimacy
Eriksons firstvadult task involving connecting with a partner in a mutually loving relationship
Stimulus value role theory
Mutations mate selection theory that similar people pair up and that our path to commitment involves three phases
Homogamy
The principle that we select a mate who is similar to us
Adult attachment styles
The different ways in which adults relate to romantic partners based on ainsworths infant attachment styles
Preoccupied ambivalent insecure attachment
A standoffish excessively clingy needy way of relating to loved ones
Avoiding dismissive insecure attachment
Disengaged way of relating to loved ones
Secure attachment
The genuine intimacy that’s in ideal love relationships
Disinstitutionalization of marriage
The deco line in marriage and emergence of alternate family forms that occurred in the last third of the 20th century
Triangular theory of lov
Sternberg categorization of love relationships in 3 faucets
Passion
Intimacy
Commitment
Consummate love
Sternberg ideal love with three faucets
