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47 Cards in this Set
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Emerging adulthood |
-after high school- late twenties -too young for marriage or children and too young to settle down - period of discovering oneself |
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Erikson's stages of psychosocial development (adolescence) |
teens- twenties identity vs role confusion identity is deciding who you are as a person Role confusion- lack to sense their own future or path |
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Marcia's identity statuses |
identity diffusion identity foreclosure moratorium identity achievement |
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Adulthood without a degree |
2/3 U.S. high school grads enroll into college 3/5 actually complete four year degree money matters do not complete college have difficulty constructing middle-class life some do not attend college has other type intelligence such as practical or creativity |
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adulthood who drop out |
uninterested in academics low SES less likely to graduate from college main reason for dropping out was due to financial issues |
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Erikson's stages of psychosocial (young adulthood) |
twenties- early forties intimacy versus isolation Western society- search for a soul-mate or endless love other countries- due to family responsibility |
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Attachment theory (current relationships) |
secure attachment- fully open to love give partners space yet feel firmly committed avoidant/dismissive- uncaring, aloof, reluctant to engage preoccupied/ambivalent- fall quickly and deeply in love but become needy and often fee rejected |
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deinstitutionalizing marriage |
-marriage transform from standard adult institution to an choice -woman's movement had significant impact on defining marriage -focus on personal choices affect divorce rate -living alone, cohabit, serial cohabit -rise in unmarried motherhood and single parenting |
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Sternberg's theory |
adult relationships has three components passion-sexual arousal intimacy-feeling of closeness commitment-lifelong cohabit, marriage or exclusive such as romantic love, companionate marriage and consummate love |
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divorce(positive and negative) |
positive- productive emotional growth and feelings of self-sufficency. relief negative-disengagement of fathers through lack contact or not paying child support. challenges with discipline or lack of connection to step children |
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Fertility in developed world |
fertility rates well below population replacement people are waiting longer economic concerns in developed world countries with poor economies some govt. efforts to encourage more births |
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exploring motherhood |
moms with children report to be lowest from day to day levels of happiness compare to childless women 1/2 mother having trouble controlling temper quality of attachment to child depends on how mothers react toward their children |
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motherhood stress |
single mom deals with intense pressures 21 century mothers spend more time with their children mothers spend twice as much time engage in child cognitive then their mothers |
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exploring fatherhood |
nurturer father- social concept that describe fathers who actively engage in child care and as breadwinner role masculine ideal spends more time with sons and daughter |
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Changing landscape of work |
more career and job changes disappearing barrier between work and family longer working hours, more insecurity and unemployment |
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optimal workplace |
U.S. workers ideal job situation decision-making abilities caring colleagues sensitive to worker needs |
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factors that erode intrinstic satisfaction |
role overload role conflict family - work conflict |
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gender pay gap |
women are less continuous than men society focus more money for men women earned less than men |
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midlife age range |
forties to 65
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conscientiousness
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more stable marriage more healthier |
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erikson's psychosocial of middle adulthood |
generativity versus stagnation focus on nurturing stagnation no sense of purpose in life |
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the seattle longitudal study |
peaks late fifties |
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crystallized intelligence |
tends increase with age later life then fall |
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fluid intelligence |
begin decline earlier in adulthood |
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post- formal thinking |
adult form of intelligence that involves being sensitive to different perspective and making decisions on one's inner feelings and exploring new questions
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population change |
baby booming entering later life longetivity declining fertility |
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memory changes |
forgetfulness to memory hypersensitivity to memory top fear is losing memory |
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socioemotional selectivity stage |
young people focus on future older people realize that the future is limited |
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erikson's pyschosocial stage late life |
integrity vs. despair sense of usefulness |
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retirement in USA |
now its 66 for collecting SSI average retirement age is 65 for decades average age is 62 |
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widowhood |
exploring mourning fluctate emotion important of friends as support system |
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Tracing physical aging |
ADl- self-caring activities rare to old-old years need full time help or nursing home IADLs- everyday household task |
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normal age changes vs. age related changes |
normal age: universal and progressive of physical deterioration that occur with age age-related:universal and genetically programmed in DNA but differ according to time of onset |
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SES,Aging and Disease |
- people live longer and enjoying better health -relationship between income and illness begins in middle age -diet, illness and life stresses poverty-illness-childhood illness can lead to poverty
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ethnicity,aging and disease |
hispanic paradox- way better at physical aging then low income whites african americans are more susceptible to illness |
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interventions taking a holistic lifespan disease |
focus on children, prevent premature births, eliminating child poverty, improving education focus on communities; senior-citizen friendly, promote healthy nutrition and exercise, support nurturing social relationships |
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driving in old age |
vision, hearing and reaction- time makes dangerous especially in the old-old years |
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Neurocognitive Disorders (NCDs) |
common known as dementia Vascular dementia -caused by multiple small strokes -involves impairments to blood flow -blood flow feeds brain Alzheimer's disease -age-related dementia -neurons decay and wither away -genetically linked |
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Three pathway to death |
death occurs suddenly death occurs steady decline Dying is long and erratic process |
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Kubler- Ross Stages of Dying |
Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance |
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Other views- many emotions |
Middle Knowledge Dying people differentially experience many emotions in unpreditable stages elderly primarily fear is death off-time deaths are in youth , painful for the person and survivors |
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In search of a good death |
minimize physical distress to be free as possible pain maximize psychological security and reduce fear and anxiety- feeling in control of death enhance relationships and emotionally close to loved ones foster spirituality and have a sense of integrity and purpose in life |
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dying trajectory |
refers to how hospital personnel make prediction and organize care about what pattern the person's dying likely to follow |
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Palliative care |
any strategy designed to not to cure illness but to promote a dignified dying -educating health care professionals on end-of-life care -changing palliative care units |
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Hospice care |
- focus on providing palliative care to dying patients outside of hospitals and giving families the support needed to care for the terminally ill at home -views death as a human event and take it out of the hands of medicine - typically involves multi-disciplinary teams that come into person's home to help family cope recently mushroomed in U.S. |
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Advance directives |
written document stating instructions with life-prolong treatment four types -living wills -durable power of attorney -DNR do not resuscitate -DNH Do not hospitialize |
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Euthanasia |
Passive euthanasia Active euthanasia- person terminally ill and in pain and resistance against to making it legal practice assisted suicide- physician assisted suicide |
