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49 Cards in this Set
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last 5 generations |
1. GI Generation 2. Silent generation 3. Baby Boomers 4. Generation X 5. Millennials |
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GI Generation |
-oldest generation still living born between 1900s-1925 -WWI Prohibition women's right to vote ( 19th amendment |
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Silent Generation |
-1925-1945 - Great Depression WWII |
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Baby boomers |
1946- 1964 - 78 million graying adults mid 60's early 50's |
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Generation X |
-1965- 1980 -more ethnically diverse and accepting of diversity family structure and orientation - 40% of them had single parent households -1/4 received pay treatment - self reliant independent focus on education and leisure pursuits - computer orientation access to information |
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Millennial Generation |
-1980s - 2000 -parents delayed child birth - sheltered and mad to feel valued ( emerging adulthood |
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aging |
biological and social change across life span |
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biological aging |
changes in the structure and functioning of the human organism over time |
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social aging ( transition points |
- TP- relinquishment of old roles and replace with new ones
changes in individuals assumption and relinquishment of roles over time |
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social norms |
standards of behavior that members of a group share and to which they are expected to conform such as an unacceptability of ouching and shoving |
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age norms |
- socila norms that define what is appropriate for people to do at various ages license, marriage , state care seattle career |
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social clock |
- a set of internalized concept that regulate our progression through the age related milestones if the adults years |
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age graded system |
- members of each grade are alike in chronological age or life stage and have certain roles that are age specific Ex: people in sudan distinguish among 5 grades: children, youth, rulers of village, retired elders and very old |
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role life events play in helping people locating themselves |
come events are considered non normative that is largely independent of age or stage Ex: being in automobile accident, winning lottery, conversion to religion we often employ major events as markers in our lives like having a baby or getting marries marks transitions |
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Childhood sexual abuse as stressful life event |
changes thechilds nervous system and their reactions to threat -nervous system is more sensitive -experience more daily emotional and physical symptoms associated with menstrual cycle - men and women had self harming behaviors |
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physical performance |
-women reach full height before their twenties and men continue to grow until age 30 both genders reach peak bone mass by age 35 and both genders reach their capacity to work at maximum rate of fatigue by this age. - muscle strength and coordination peak in |
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obesity increasing across cultures |
worldwide nutrition transition brought by globalization and increasing access to western style diets |
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how does socioeconomic status, ethnicity and gender effect transition into adulthood |
- people who are poorer and lack higher education have higher death rate - women live longer than men - racial minorities and single parents are more likely to live in poverty - |
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3 main factors that protect people from depression |
- having enough autonomy to exercise control in response to stressful events - having access to materials resources that make it possible to make choices about how to respond to stress - having access to a supportive network |
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stress |
psychological disorders and disturbances result from individual vulnerability and environmental stresses, perception, and sleep |
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Gender differences in stress |
-women admit more to stress - men more likely to cope using drugs and alcohol - women stress more over family events men stress over financial and work related problems |
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Heterosexual sexual activity in early adulthood |
- 90% have intercourse by age 22 80% of people in committed relationships report being satisfied sexually 70% of people have only had 1 sexual partner in the past yeas |
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post formal operations |
-knowledge is not absolute but relativistic( no such thing as facts just simple realities)( ppl have different visions for project learn to cooperate - accept contradictions and incompatibilities( times where we must respect and do what supervisor say) - find encompassing whole to organize experience (look at larger picture |
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information processing sternberg |
- information is perceived and then processed through a number of steps - good problem solvers are good encoders |
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Gilligan vs. kohlberg |
-kohlberg: preconcention, conventional post conventional - man and women have different moral domains - men think moral problems ar e interns of right and rules( ethic of justice - women void hurt ( ethic ofcare) |
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adulthood social relationships |
our relationships with others involve relatively stable sets of expectations ( ex: I'm the daughter of, or wife of) |
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expressive tie |
a social link formed when we invest ourselves in and commit ourselves to another person ( many of our needs can only be met by association with other people |
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primary relationships |
view these relationships with friends family and lovers as ends in themselves valuable in their own right |
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instrumental tie- |
a social link formed when we cooperate with another person to achieve a specific goal ( working relationship, political relationship |
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secondary relationship |
- social relationships that rest on instrumental ties
- we see these relaironships as means to ends rather than an ends in their own right ( cashier, ( everyday touch and go relationships |
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Erickson major theme in adult development |
intimacy vs. isolation - closness, love and vulnerability vs. promiscuity or exclusion |
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phases of adult male development |
- leaving family - entering adult world ( being committed to roles as adults - settling down becoming ones own person |
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phases of adult female |
-find ways to combine work and family - women fund a variety of paths to adulthood |
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steinbergs triangular theory of love |
- love is made up of 3 elements 1. passion 2. intimacy 3. commitment - calls the emotional bond consummate love |
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why some young adults are living at homr |
- longer time to establish career - economic recession - lower salaries - higher cost of healthcare |
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why so many adults are single |
- establish career, do not know how to date, concerned about divorce, searching for perfect mate, view being single as best way to live, unresolved issues in past relationships |
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nonmartial cohabitation vs. marriage |
- living with someone who you are not married to |
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sexual orientation |
refers to rather an individual is strongly aroused sexually by members of their own sex, the opposite sex or both sexes |
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asexual |
having little sexual orientation to males or femles |
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bisexual |
center of the continuum of sexual orientation |
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marriage |
socially, legally and religious sanctioned union between a women and a man with the expectation that they will play the mutually supportive roles of husband and wife. |
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two types of nuclear families |
- family orientation- you mother father siblings - family of procreation- begins apart of a family in which you are one of the parents |
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short comings of hills family life cycle |
- sequence of changes that occur in the structure and relationship of family life between marriage and death of both spouses( first just parents then children then just parents again - does not apply to divorced spouses, single parent families, same sex families, step family, some immigrant families, and institiualized populations |
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significance of 1st pregnancy |
- functions as a major marker or transition and confronts a couple with nee developmental tasks |
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4 major tasks in confronting a pregnant women |
1. accept the pregnancy gain emotional attachment to undorn child 2. must come to differentiate herself from fetus and establish a distinct sense of self 3. reflects on and reevaluates relationship with own mother 4. come to terms with issue of dependency |
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postpartum depression |
symptoms include irritability waves of sadness frequent crying little sleep no appetite feelings of hopelessness - realted to dramatic hormonal changes at birth being tied down to baby - feel guilty when they can comfort baby |
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single parent fathers |
- good at juggling - more anxiety over sexual behavior - lost during temper tantrum - need to develop own nurturing skills |
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significance of work for men and women |
self interest- feeling good at being skilled at something - money - friends - atmosphere |
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differences in men and women work experiences |
- women gain back their assertiveness in adulthood, women don't commit themselves to competitive success because they view socializing as an achievement - men seek to dominate |
