Developmental Psychology Final

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Characteristics of Emerging Adulthood

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relative independence from social roles and from normative expectations.Most volitional years.
-Period of frequent change and exploration (different jobs, etc.)
-Nothing is normative demographically.

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Identity formation:

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Eric Erikson: stage theorist:
-peers matter more, parents matter less.
-If crisis isn't solved, then there's role confusion.
-Identity achievement has rarely been reached by the end of high school.

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Normative crisis

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quarter life crisis: unemployed/underemployed or incomplete

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-Median age of first marriage in western Europe

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is about 30: fertility rate is 1.4. To replace the population it needs to be 2.

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Big 3 of Adulthood

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accept responsibility for myself, making own decisions, becoming financially independent.

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Dowry:

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when the brides family pays the groom/grooms family (it's a way to transfer wealth: daughters don’t inherit; men do). This happens in India.

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Bride Price:

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the groom paying the bride's family (the bride doesn’t get anything,

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Monogamy

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: one wife

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-Polygyny

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: more than one wife at a time (one male can have many offspring

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-Polyandry

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: more than one husband at a time (happens in really harsh conditions).
-Same-sex marriage

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Ache

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optimal age at first birth is 18.

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-Females invest more

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Large egg, pregnancy, lactation (females should be choosy).

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: how do we get copies of our genes into the next generation?

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Quantity: have lots and lots of babies.
-Quality: have a few high quality offspring.

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Trivers-Willard hypothesis

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you produce more male offspring when in good conditions.

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Who is biologically more sturdier

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Girls are biologically sturdier.

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-Differential parental investment

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: it may make sense to invest more in one sex than the other.

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Parent offspring conflict:

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-Parents equally invest in each child because each child is 50% genetically-related to the parent.
-offspring want more for self than for sibling because offspring is 100% genetically-related to self and only 50% related to sibling.
-Stay-at-home dads: fast growing family type.

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Why do we age?

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-Life expectancy is going up: females tend to live about 7 years longer than males: females 79, males 72.
-Males die in earlier years (maybe because of risk taking behaviors).
-The cost of sex is death: we shift our resources from self-repair to reproduction (our peak is about age 10. Every 8 years our rate of dying doubles).

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Old Age Subgroups

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-Old: 65+ and the old old: 85+.

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Myth # 1 of old age

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to be old is to be sick: there are chronic diseases, but for many old people they live many healthy years.

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Myth #2: of old age

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choose your parents wisely: depends more on lifestyle and environment

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Glen Elder: Life course

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Life course: Glen Elder: types of things that are common to different generations (we tend to have certain shared experiences with similar ages so we tend to want to spend more time with them).

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3 different types of sibling relationships:

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-intimate: high devotion and psychological closeness; the relationship is based on mutual love, concern, empathy, protection, understanding, and durability
- congenial: strong friendship and caring; less depth and reliability than intimate siblings; regular contact (weekly, monthly).
-loyal: based more on cultural norms than personal involvement; support each other during crises; regular contact but not frequent.

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-Death is a rite of passage

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like puberty, marriage

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-When do we die?

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70's-80's

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Uniform determination of death act: Cardiac Death

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irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions

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Uniform determination of death act:
Brain Death

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: irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem

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Leonard Hayflick Hypothesis

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: if we eliminated the leading causes of death, people would die of "increasingly irreparable loss of molecular fidelity."

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Dr. Cicely Saunders

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began the modern hospice movement and the idea of bringing loved ones home to die. This style of care focuses on pain management and compassion at the end of life

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Friends in later life

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important because of shared life experiences, companionship, and support

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Jeanna Calment age of death

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122!

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1. How is emerging adulthood different than young adulthood?

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EA suffer from Normative Crisis
Reluctance to become adults
Independence from social rolls
Period of Frequent change, highest move rating
E.A move home
E.A dont imediatley enter Job world
Put off marriage, till 30s

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What are two outdated marks of adulthood?

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We graduate, get married, enter workforce and move to own house

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What lead to the introduction of the new term of E.A

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Distinct Demographically
Moving Home
Distinct from adults
Mobility