lecture 8 and 9

Question 1

what are the 6 developmental tasks of early adulthood?

Answer 1

1. acheiving autonomy
2. developing emotional stability
3. increasing independence
4. education/employment
5. intimacy
6. parenthood

Question 2

what stage of erikson’s theory occurs during early adulthood?

Answer 2

intimacy vs isolation

Question 3

what are the 3 components of love?

Answer 3

1. intimacy
2. passion
3. commitment

Question 4

what are the 7 types of love? what are they composed of?

(passion, intimacy, commitment)

Answer 4

1. liking: intimacy
2. romantic love: passion + intimacy
3. infatuation: passion
4. fatuous love: passion + commitment
5. empty love: commitment
6. companionate love: intimacy + commitment
7. consumate love: intimacy + passion + commitment

Question 5

what is an A frame relationship?

Answer 5

one partner leans on the other and is highly dependent on the other for survival

Question 6

what is an H frame relationship?

Answer 6

• partners live seperate, parallel lives
• rarely spend time with one another

Question 7

what is an M frame relationship?

Answer 7

• interdependent
• strong sense of connection
• can stand alone without devestation

Question 8

what are the 4 adult learning principles?

Answer 8

• relates learning to immediate needs
• self directed
• teacher is a facilitator
• learner desires active role

Question 9

what are the 7 developmental tasks of middle adulthood?

Answer 9

1. losing parents and grief
2. launching children
3. empty nesting
4. boomerang children who return home
5. becoming grandparents
6. preparing for late adulthood
7. acting as caregivers for aging parents/spouse

Question 10

what 6 factors predict healthy aging?

Answer 10

1. education
2. stable marriage
3. not smoking
4. not abusing alcohol
5. exercise
6. healthy weight

Question 11

what is formal operational thought in cognitive development?

Answer 11

• being able to think abstractly
• influenced by experience and education

Question 12

what is tacit knowledge?

Answer 12

knowledge learned through experience rather than being explicitly taught

Question 13

what stage of erikson’s theory occurs during middle adulthood?

Answer 13

generativity vs stagnation

Question 14

what are some middle adulthood teaching strategies?

Answer 14

• maintain independence
• reestablish normal life patterns
• provide information related to life concerns and problems
• self directed learning

Question 15

what is fluid intelligence?

Answer 15

• ability to perceive relationships
• to reason
• to perform abstract thinking

Question 16

what is crystallized intelligence?

Answer 16

• intelligence absorbed over a lifetime
• increases with experience

Question 17

what stage of erikson’s theory occurs during late adulthood?

Answer 17

integrity vs despair

Question 18

what 4 reasons do humans use social contact?

Answer 18

1. to ensure physical survival
2. to gain information
3. to maintain a sense of self
4. to acquire pleasure and comfort

Question 19

what are 9 teaching strategies for older adulthood?

Answer 19

• concrete examples
• build on past experiences
• time to reminisce
• focus on one concept at a time
• slow paced
• repetition and reinforcement
• brief explanations
• analogies
• speak slowly and clearly