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lengthy transition period |
becoming an adult |
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refered to the transition from adolescence to adulthood |
emerging adulthood |
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5 key features characterize emerging adulthood (Jeffrey Arnett) |
Identity exploration Instability Self focused Feeling in between Age of possibilities |
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key changes in identity take place for many individual |
identity exploration |
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residual changes peak during early adulthood, a time during which there also is often instability in love, work, and education |
instability |
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little in the way of social obligations, little in the way of duties and commitments, which leaves them with a great deal of autonomy in running their own lives |
Self-focused |
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Emerging adults dont consider themselves adolescents or full-fledged adult |
feeling-in-between |
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a time when individuals have opportunity to transform their lives |
age of possibilities |
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3 characteristic shared by late bloomers |
support by adults being planful showing positive aspects of autonomy |
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recently described the career mystique, ingrained cultural beliefsthat engaging in hard work for long hours through adulthood will produce a path to status, security, and hapiness |
phyllis moen |
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defines people in fundamental ways |
work |
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phenomenon of transferring from the oldest and most powerful group of students to the yoingest and least powerful group of students |
top-dog phenomenon |
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peak level of performance occurs not only to young adults but also for these outstanding athletes |
most swimmer and gymnast golfers and marathon runners other areas of athletics |
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decline in physicacl performance begins |
decrease in muscle tone & strength around age 30 sagging chins and protruding abdomen lessening of physical abilities just after 30 |
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college students from low-SES backgrounds engages in: |
lower levels of physical activity eating more fast food less fruits and vegetable showed unhealthy weight control |
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bad health habits engaged in adolescence |
inactivity diet obesity substance abuse reproductive health care |
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young adults life satisfaction was positively related to |
not smoking exercising regularly using sun protection eating fruits limiting fat intake |
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medical problem involving excessive amount of body fat |
ovesity |
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% of the national survey where 20 to 29 years old were found to be obese in the US |
20 |
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culprits of obesity |
heredity leptin set point environmental factors dieting |
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health strategies for making exercise part of your life |
reduce tv amount chart your progression get rid of excuses imagine the alternative |
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behavioral pattern characterized by an overwhelming involvement with a drug and a preoccupation with securing its supply |
addiction |
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2 problems associated with excessive alcohol consumption |
binge drinking alcoholism |
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individuals who had 10 or more drinks in a row |
binge drinking |
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a disorder that involves long-term, repeated uncontrolled, compulsive, and excessive use of alcohol |
alcoholism |
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time frame during which most individuals are both sexually active and unmarried |
emerging adulthood |
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% in the beginning of emerging adulthood where individuals have experienced sexual intercourse |
60 |
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most individuals have had sexual intercourse |
end of emerging adulthood (Age 25) |
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more common in emerging adulthood than in the late twenties |
casual sex |
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predictors of hooking up |
impulsivity sensation seeking alcohol use |
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non relationship sex |
hooking up |
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a relationship formed in the integration of friendship and sexual intimacy |
friends with benefits |
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bacteria sexually transimitted disease |
gonorrhea syphilis chlamydia |
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caused by the bacterium neisseria gonorrhoeae |
gonorrhea |
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a common STI named for the organism that spreads by sexual contact and infects the genital organs of both sexes |
chlamydia |
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Viruses Sexually transmitted disease |
genital herpes aids genital warts |
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involves an eruption of sores and blisters |
genital herpes |
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caused by HIV, which destroys the body's immune system |
AIDS |
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caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) which does not always produce symptoms |
Genital warts |
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effective strategies against HIV and other STI |
Know your risk status and that of your partner Obtain medical examination Have protected sex Do not have sex with multiple partners |
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forcible sexual intercourse with a person who does not give consent |
rape |
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male rapist characteristics |
aggression enhhances their sense of power or masculinityangry in women in generalwant to hurt and humiliate their victimes aggression enhhances their sense of power or masculinityangry in women in generalwant to hurt and humiliate their victimes |
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a higher level of men's sexual narcissism |
sexual exploitation sexual entitlement low sexual empathy sexual skill |
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manifestation of power of one person over another |
sexual harassment |
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Stage of Cognitive development of Piaget found in early adulthood |
formal operational stage |
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young adults move into a new qualitative stage of cognitive development |
postformal thought |
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postformal thought is |
reflective, realistic, contextualprovisionalrealisticrecognized as being influenced by emotion reflective, realistic, contextualprovisionalrealisticrecognized as being influenced by emotion reflective, realistic, contextualprovisionalrealisticrecognized as being influenced by emotion reflective, realistic, contextualprovisionalrealisticrecognized as being influenced by emotion |
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age where individuals genereate 80% of the most important creative contributions |
30 |
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qualifying any conclusion about age and creative accomplishments are: |
magnitude of the decline in productivity contrast across creative domains individual differences in lifetime output |
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developmental changes in careers and work in children |
have idealistic fantasies about what they want to be when they grow up |
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developmental changes in careers and work in high school years |
often have begun to think about careers from a somewhat less idelistic perspective |
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developmental changes in careers and work in late teens and early twenties |
career decision making has usually turned more serious |
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developmental changes in careers and work in college |
choosing a major or specialization that is designed to lead to work in a particular field |
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developmental changes in careers and work in early and mid-twenties |
completed their education and entered a full time occupation |
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developmental changes in careers and work in mid-twenties through remainder of early adulthood |
seek to establish their emerging career in a particular field and start moving up the career ladder |
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an ingrained cultural belief that engaging in hard work for long hours through adulthood will lead to status, security, and happiness |
career mystique |
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a missing ingredient in many adolescents' and emerging adults' achievement and career development |
purpose |
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% HAD A CLEAR VISION OF WHERE THEY WANTED TO GO IN LIFE |
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% had engaged in some potentially purposeful activities but they still did not have real commitments or any reasonable plans |
60 |
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% no aspirations and didn't see anay reason to have aspirations |
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defined people in fundamental ways and is a key aspect of their identity |
work |
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helps individualls cope with unemployment |
support of understanding, adaptable family membersjob counseling to provide practical advice on job searching, resumes, and interviewing skills support of understanding, adaptable family membersjob counseling to provide practical advice on job searching, resumes, and interviewing skillsself-help groups that give emotional support self-help groups that give emotional support |
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divisions of responsibility for work and family had changed for dual earner couples |
1. husbands are taking increased responsibility for maintaining the home 2. women are taking increased responsibility in breadwinning men are showing greater interest in their families and parenting |
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in the US more than _____ of all lawyers, physicians, computer scientists, and chemists today are females |
1/4 |
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key aspect of socioemotional development in adolescence |
increased interest in identity |
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an individuals behavioral style and characteristic emotional responses |
temperament |
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dimensions during childhood characteristics of adult personality |
1. easy and difficult temperaments 2. inhibition 3. ability to control one's emotion |
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likely to be well adjusted as young adults |
easy temperament |
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likely to be well adjusted as young adults |
easy temperament |
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not well adjusted as young adults |
difficult temperament |
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not well adjusted as young adults |
difficult temperament |
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not well adjusted as young adults |
difficult temperament |
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less likely than other adults to be assertive or experience social support, and more likely to delay entering stabile jobs |
inhibition |
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intervening contexts for initial temperament: inhibition |
caregivers physical environment peers schools |
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have positive views of relationships, find it easy to get close to others, not overly concerned with their romantic relationships |
secure attachment style |
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hesitant about getting involved in romantic relationships, once they are in relationship tend to distance themselves from their partner |
avoidant attachment style |
