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Week 15 Flashcards

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Crowds

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Adolescent peer groups characterized by shared reputations or images

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Deviant peer contagion

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The spread of problem behaviors within groups of adolescents

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Differential susceptibility

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Genetic factors that make individuals more or less responsive to environmental experiences

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Foreclosure

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Individuals commit to an identity without exploration of options

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Homophily

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Adolescents tend to associate with peers who are similar to themselves

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Identity achievement

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Individuals have explored different options and then made commitments

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Identity diffusion

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Adolescents neither explore nor commit to any roles or ideologies

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Moratorium

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State in which adolescents are actively exploring options but have not yet made identity commitments

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Psychological control

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Parents’ manipulation of and intrusion into adolescents’ emotional and cognitive world through invalidating adolescents’ feelings and pressuring them to think in particular ways

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Collectivism

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Belief system that emphasizes the duties and obligations that each person has toward others

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Emerging adulthood

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  • A new life stage from approximately ages 18 to 25, when the foundation of an adult life is gradually constructed in love and work
  • identity explorations, instability, focus on self-development, feeling incompletely adult, and a broad sense of possibilities
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Individualism

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Belief system that exalts freedom, independence, and individual choice as high values

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Industrialized countries

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The economically advanced countries of the world, in which most of the world’s wealth is concentrated

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Non-industrialized countries

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  • the less economically advanced countries that comprise the majority of the world’s population
  • currently developing at a rapid rate
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OECD countries

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Members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, comprised of the world’s wealthiest countries

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Tertiary education

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Education or training beyond secondary school, usually taking place in a college, university, or vocational training program

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Age identity

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  • How old or young people feel compared to their chronological age
  • after early adulthood, most people feel younger than their chronological age
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Autobiographical narratives

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A qualitative research method used to understand characteristics and life themes that an individual considers to uniquely distinguish them from others

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Average life expectancy

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The mean number of years that 50% of people in a specific birth cohort are expected to survive.

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Convoy Model of Social Relations

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A theory that proposes that the frequency, types, and reciprocity of social exchanges change with age

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Cross-sectional studies

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Research method that provides information about age group differences; age differences are confounded with cohort differences and effects related to history and time of study

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Crystallized intelligence

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Type of intellectual ability that relies on the application of knowledge, experience, and learned information

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Fluid intelligence

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Type of intelligence that relies on the ability to use information processing resources to reason logically and solve novel problems

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Global subjective well-being

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Individuals’ perceptions of and satisfaction with their lives as a whole

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Hedonic well-being

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Component of well-being that refers to emotional experiences, often including measures of positive and negative affect

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Heterogeneity

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Inter-individual and subgroup differences in level and rate of change over time

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inhibitory functioning

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Ability to focus on a subset of information while suppressing attention to less relevant information

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Intra- and inter-individual differences

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Different patterns of development observed within an individual (intra-) or between individuals (inter-).

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Longitudinal studies

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A research method that collects information from individuals at multiple time points over time, allowing researchers to track differences in age-related change to determine cumulative effects of different life experiences

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Processing speed

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The time it takes individuals to perform cognitive operations

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Recall

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Type of memory task where individuals are asked to remember previously learned information without the help of external cues

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Recognition

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Type of memory task where individuals are asked to remember previously learned information with the assistance of cues

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Self-perceptions of aging

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An individual’s perceptions of their own aging process; positive perceptions of aging have been shown to be associated with greater longevity and health

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Social network

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Network of people who an individual is closely connected with; social networks provide emotional, informational, and material support and offer opportunities for social engagement

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Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

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  • a theory proposed to explain the reduction of social partners in older adulthood
  • older adults focus on meeting emotional over information-gathering goals, and adaptively select social partners who meet this need
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Subjective age

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A multidimensional construct that indicates how old (or young) a person feels and into which age group a person categorizes him- or herself

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Successful aging

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Includes three components: avoiding disease, maintaining high levels of cognitive and physical functioning, and having an actively engaged lifestyle

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Working memory

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Memory system that allows for information to be simultaneously stored and utilized or manipulated

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