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
Demand withdrawal interaction
A pathological way of communication in which woman press for more intimacy and man backs off
Marital equity
Fairness in the work of a couples life together
Fertility rate
The average member of children in a given country that a woman has during her life time
Occupational segregation
The separation of men and women into different types of jobs
Intrinsic career rewards vs extrinsic
Inner fuffilment vs external reinforcers
Role overload
A job situation that places so many requirements or demands it is impossible for workers to do their jobs
Role conflict
A situation in which a person is torn between two or more major responsibilities
Big five
5 core psychological predispositions Neurotiscism extraversion Openness Conscientiousness Agreeableness
Age discrimination
Illegally laying off or failing to hire on age bias
Old age dependency ratio
The fraction of people over 60 compared to younger working adults (expected to rise when baby boomers retire)
Continuing bonds
A widowed persons ongoing sense of the deceased
Intergenerational equity
Balancing needs of young and old
Widowed mortality effect
The elevated risk of death that occurs among surviving spouses particularly men after being widowed
Chronic disease
Any long term illness that requires ongoing treatment
Adl problems
Difficulty in everyday tasks
Instrumental adl problems
Difficulty cooking cleaning
Basic adl problems
Difficulty rising form chair
Eating
Getting to bathroom
Presbyopia
Age related mid life difficulty with near vision
Inability of lens to bend
Lens
Transparent disc shaped structure in the eye which bends to allow us to see close objects
Generativity
In eriksons theory the seventh psychological task in which people in midlife find meaning from nurturing the next generation
Hedonic happy
Pleasure
Eudianmonic happy
Having sense of purpose
Commitment script
Mcadams
A type of autobiography produced by highly generative adults that involved childhood memories of feeling special, being unusually sensitive to others, misfortunes, generative mission from adolescence an redemption sequence
Redemption sequence
Mcadams
A characteristic theme of highly generative adults autobiographies in which they describe tragic events thatvtured out for the best
WAIS
Iq test
Verbal and performance scales with subtests
Seattle longitudinal study
Longitudal to positive
Cross sectional to negative
Intelligence
Crystallized intelligence
Atorehouse of accumulated info
Fluid intelligence
The ability to quickly master new intellectual activities
Terminal drop
Decline in vocabulary and forget crystal intelligence test as sign of terminal illness
Selective optimization with compensation
Batle Three principles of successful aging Selectively focus on what's important Work to perform on those areas Rely on external aids to cope
Post formal thoughts
A uniquely adult form of intelligence that involves being sensitive to different perspectives
Making decisions based on ones inner feelings and being interested in new questions
Presbycuss
Age related difficulty in hearing
Osteoporosis
Bones become fragile
Dementia
Term for any illness that produces serious progressive usually irreversible cognitive decline
Vascular dementia
A type of age related dementia caused by strokes
Alzheimer’s
Dementia categorized by neural atrophy and abnormal byproducts of that atrophy
Such as senile plaques and neuerfibulary tangles
Neurofibulary ftangles
Long wavy filaments that replace normal neurons and characteristic of Alzheimer’s
Senile plaques
Bulletin like structures that replace normal neurons
Alternative institutions
Services and settings designed to keep older people who are experiencing age related disability that don’t merit intense 24 hour care from having to enter nursing homes
Continuing care retirement
A housing option characterized by a series of levels of care for elderly fol apartments to nursing home care
People can enter in good health for help when they become disabled
Assisted living
Housing service for elderly who have instrumental adl problems but may not need nurse
Day care program and
Service for elderly who live with relatives to spend day doing activities
Home health services
Nurse oriented house leeping help provider in home of old person
Nursing home
Provides shelter and basic care for those with basic adl problems
Certified nurse assistant
Hands in care provider
