Adult Development Midterm

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What is this course about?

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This course is about the journey of adulthood.

Emerging adulthood begins when a person enters their 20s.

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Cultures

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Large social environments in which development takes place.

Can vary in the ways they influence the adult life pattern.

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Cohort

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A more finely grained concept than a culture because it refers to a group of people who share a common historical experience at the same stage of life

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Shared Development in Adulthood

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Natural Aging Processes

Many are easy to see, such as hair turning gray and wrinkles on the skin

Others arent as noticeable but are a shared change such as loss of muscle tissue and physical strength

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How many people over 65 live in a nursing home

What sex is most likely to live in a nursing home

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Only about 5% as a result of better health and advances in in medicine and technology.

Research shows women are more likely to spend their later years in a nursing home since they usually outlive their spouses.

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Anxiety Disorders involve feelings of what

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Fear, threat, and dread when no obvious danger is present.

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The most common type of mental health disorder for adults in United States

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Anxiety disorders

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Activities of daily living

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Bathing, dressing, getting around inside the home, and eating

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Instrumental activities are more complex everyday tasks

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Preparing meals, and shopping.

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Atherosclerosis

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A disease of the arteries caused by a buildup of plaques.

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When do you face the most change in social roles than at any other point in your life?

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Ages 20-30

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Since when has living together without marriage or cohabatition increased dramatically while marriage rates have declined

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Since the 1960's

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Transition of marriage

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Seems to e accompanied by an increase in happiness and marital satisfaction for a couple

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New role of parent

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Seems to bring a decrease in happiness and satisfaction

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Highest marriage satisfaction

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Newlyweds WITHOUT children and couples at retirement age.

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"The empty nest"

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The departure of children

This transition in life is more positive than negative

Many couples report experiencing this phase of their marriage as a second honeymoon.

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Concept of gender role crossover

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Suggests during the postparental stage men being to take on aspects of the women's role and women take on aspects of the men's role.

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Most commony acquired new role in the posparental period

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Grandparent

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Generational squeeze

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Comes from the demands imposed by both parents and children.

Also, a challenge that comes to many women in their later years is that of learning to live alone due to divorce or widowhood.

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Convoy Relationships

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Serve to both shape and protect individuals, sharing with them life experiences, challenges, successes, and disappointments.

An everchanging network of social relationships that surround each of us throughout our adult lives.

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What a certain sex looks for in a mate

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Men are more apt to say they are looking for a potential mate who is physically attractive.

Women are more apt to focus on earning potential.

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Closest sibling relationships

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1. Two Sisters

2. Brother and Sister

3. Two Brothers