Things to know for test 3 Flashcards
What role transitions mark entry into adulthood?
Voting, completing education, getting married, or beginning full-time employment.
How does achieving financial independence reflect the transition to adulthood?
Financial independence is a key indicator of becoming an adult for many and is related to education attainment
In what respects are young adults at their physical peak?
Height, strength, muscle development, coordination, dexterity, and sensory acuity
How do smoking, alcohol, and nutrition affect young adults’ health?
occasional drinking is not known to seriously affect health, but prolonged binge drinking and drug use affects the brain and body long term
What are fluid and crystallized intelligence? How do they change?
Fluid intelligence is being a flexible, adaptive thinker who can make inferences and understand concepts’ relationships, this declines throughout adulthood. Crystallized intelligence is knowledge of facts, definitions, language acquired by life experience; this improves throughout adulthood.
What is the life-span construct? How do adults create scenarios and life stories?
one’s unified sense of the past, present, and future based on personal experience and input from other people. A scenario is a manifestation of the life-span construct through expectations about the future; it takes aspects of a person’s identity that are particularly important now and projects them into a future plan
What types of friendships do adults have? How do adult friendships develop?
The broad themes are affective or emotional, shared or communal, and sociable and compatible. Friendships generally begin from shared interests
What is love? How does it begin? How does it develop through adulthood?
Love is a distinct neurological emotion system, with different stages of love involving different neurochemicals. The amounts of passion, intimacy, and commitment fluctuate throughout a relationship.
What is the nature of abuse in some relationships?
When one partner becomes violent or aggressive towards the other
What are the characteristics of cohabiting people?
when people in a committed, intimate, sexual relationship live together but are not married
What are gay and lesbian relationships like?
What is marriage like through the course of adulthood?
Satisfaction (in marriage and cohabitation) is highest in the beginning, falls until children begin leaving home, and rises again in later life. The vulnerability–stress–adaptation model proposes that marital quality is a dynamic process resulting from the couple’s ability to handle stressful events in the context of their particular vulnerabilities and resources.
Why do people have children?
Often the decision to be a parent is not explicit and does not usually involve analytical thinking.
What is it like to be a parent? What differences are there in different types of parenting?
Familism refers to the idea that the well-being of the family takes precedence over the concerns of individual family members
*How do people choose their occupations?
What types of bias and discrimination hinder the occupational development of women and ethnic minority workers?
What are the issues faced by employed people who care for dependents?
How do partners view the division of household chores?
How does appearance change in middle age?
What reproductive changes occur in men and women in middle age?
What is stress? How does it affect physical and psychological health?
What differences are there between adults and young people in how they learn?
How does the relationship between middle-aged parents and their young adult children change?
How do middle-aged adults deal with their aging parents?
