Module 27: Expected Development in Young Adulthood Flashcards
What may stress lead in for young adults?
Stress may lead young adults to engage in risky behaviors, eat unhealthily, have poor quality of sleep, etc.
Emotion-Focused Coping
manage emotions by refusing to think about an issue or reframing the event in the positive light
Problem-Focused Coping
involves addressing an issue head-on and developing action-oriented ways of managing and changing a bad situation
Premenstrual Syndrome
+ Disorder that produces physical discomfort and emotional tension for up to 2 weeks before menstrual period
+ Response to monthly surges of female hormones
+ More typical in women in their 30s or older
Dysmenorrhea
caused by contractions of the uterus which are set in motion by prostaglandin
Infertility
inability to conceive a baby
Common causes of infertility in women
failure to produce ova, mucus in the cervix or disease of the uterine lining
Reflective Thinking
+ Active, persistent, and careful consideration of information or beliefs
+ Continually question facts, draw inferences, and make connections
+ Frequently engage in critical thinking
What is the development of the brain at 20-25 years of age?
At approx. 20-25 years of age, the brain forms new neurons, synapses, and dendritic connections, and the cortical regions that handle higher-level thinking become fully myelinated
Postformal Thought
+ characterized by the ability to deal with inconsistency, contradiction, and compromise
+ draws on intuition and emotion as well as logic to help people cope with situations such as social dilemmas
+ use of both logic and experience
What does postformal thought acknowledge?
Acknowledges that there may be more than one valid way of viewing an issue and that the world is made up of shades of gray (Relativistic Thought)
Provisional
Postformal Thought
many young adults become more skeptical about what the truth is
Stages of Schaie: A Lifespan Model of Cognitive Development
- Acquisitive Stage (Childhood and Adolescence)
- Achieving Stage (Late teens or early twenties to thirties)
- Responsible Stage (Late 30s to early 60s)
- Executive Stage (30s or 40s through middle age)
- Reorganizational Stage (end of middle age, beginning of late adulthood)
- Reintegrative Stage (Late Adulthood)
- Legacy-Creating Stage (advanced old age)
Acquisitive Stage (Childhood and Adolescence)
Children acquire info and skills mainly for their own sake or as preparation in society
Achieving Stage (Late teens or early twenties to thirties)
They use what they know to pursue goals
Responsible Stage (Late 30s to early 60s)
Use their minds to solve practical problems associated with responsibilities to others
Executive Stage (30s or 40s through middle age)
Responsible for societal systems or social movements
Reorganizational Stage (end of middle age, beginning of late adulthood)
Enter retirement, reorganize their lives and intellectual energies around meaningful pursuits that take place of paid work
Reintegrative Stage (Late Adulthood)
Focus on the purpose of what they do and concentrate on tasks that have most meaning for them
Legacy-Creating Stage (advanced old age)
Older people may create instructions for the disposition of prized possessions, make funeral arrangements, provide oral histories, or write their life stories as legacy for their loved ones
Componential Knowledge
analytical abilities
Experiential Intelligence
original thinking, experience-based
Contextual Intelligence
knowing your way around
Tacit Knowledge
+ inside information, know-how, “hacks”, not formally taught or openly expressed; commonsense knowledge of how to get aged
+ Includes self-management, management of tasks, and management of others
Emotional Intelligence
refers to four related skills: the abilities to perceive, use, understand, and manage or regulate emotions to achieve goals
Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test
measures emotional intelligence through an individual’s abilities to perceive, comprehend, act on, and manage emotional information
Kohlberg’s Postconventional Morality
In Kohlberg’s Postconventional Morality, people became more capable of fully principled moral reasoning, and that they made moral decisions on the basis of universal principles of justice