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15 Cards in this Set
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Transition
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bridge or juncture btw successive stages (such as courtship)
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Normative Crisis
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Period of rapid change and or turmoil that strains a person's adaptive capacity (ex. pregnancy and childbirth)
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Stage
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period of consolidation of skills and capacities (ex. mature adulthood)
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Plateau
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period of developmental stability (adulthood up to midlife)
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Rite of Passage
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Social ritual that facilitates a transition (graduation)
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Regression
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temporary retrograde vector in development, revival of childlike behavior in response to stress (midlife crisis)
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Intamacy vs Isolation (Erikson)
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-20 to 35
-learn to make personal commitment to another as a spouse or partner |
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Generativity vs Stagnation (Erikson)
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-35 to 65
-seeks satisfaction through productivity in career, family, and civic interests |
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Ego Integrity vs Despair (Erikson)
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-65 to death
-reviews life accomplishments, deals with loss and prepares for death |
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Colarusso's tasks of young adulthood
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-develop adult friendships
-become a spouse -become a parent -establish an adult work identity -develop adult forms of play |
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Courtship
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-pair identity
-usually progresses to marriage |
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Marriage (current trends)
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-inc in median age of first marriage in men and women since 1950
-liklihood of a marriage ending in divorce is rising |
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What are four common marital crisis points?
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-childbirth
-parenting -empty nest syndrome -affairs |
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Midlife Transition
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-signs of physical aging
-sandwiched by repsonsibilities to children and parents -"tragic" awareness replaces romanticism -midlife crisis |
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Bereavement
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-defn=loss of a person to whom one has been atached
-denial -grief -ambivalence -over idealizing -detachment from the lost person |
