Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Lifespan Psy Ch 10
Lifespan Psychology Chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| addiction | physical dependence on a substance (e.g., alcohol) such that withdrawal symptoms are experienced when deprived of that substance |
| binge drinking | type of drinking defined for men as consuming five or more drinks in a row and for women as consuming four or more drinks in a row within the past 2 weeks |
| body mass index (BMI) | a ratio of body weight and height and is related to total body fat |
| crystallized intelligence | the knowledge you have acquired through life experience and education in a particular culture |
| edgework | the desire to live life more on the edge through physically and emotianlly threatening situations on the boundary between life and death |
| emerging adulthood | period between late teens and mid- to late 20s when individuals are not adolescents but are not yet fully adults |
| fluid intelligence | abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker, allow you to make inferences, and enable you to understand the relations among concepts |
| high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) | chemicals that help keep arteries clear and break down LDLs |
| interindividual variability | patterns of change that vary from one person to another |
| intimacy versus isolation | sixth stage in Erikson’s theory and the major psychosocial task for young adults |
| life story | a personal narrative that organizes past events into a coherent sequence |
| life-span construct | a unified sense of the past, present, and future based on personal experience and input from other people |
| low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) | chemicals that cause fatty deposits to accumulate in arteries, impeding blood flow |
| metabolism | how much energy the body needs |
| multidimensional | characteristic of theories of intelligence that identify several types of intellectual abilities |
| multidirectionality | developmental pattern in which some aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects decline during adulthood |
| Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) | proposes that intelligence comes from a distributed and integrated network of neurons in the parietal and frontal lobes of the brain |
| personal control beliefs | the degree to which you believe your performance in a situation depends on something you do |
| plasticity | concept that intellectual abilities are not fixed but can be modified under the right conditions at just about any point in adulthood |
| possible selves | representations of what we could become, what we would like to become, and what we are afraid of becoming |
| postformal thought | thinking characterized by recognizing that the correct answer varies from one situation to another, that solutions should be realistic, that ambiguity and contradiction are typical, and that subjective factors play a role in thinking |
| primary control | behavior aimed at affecting the individual’s external world |
| primary mental abilities | groups of related intellectual skills (such as memory or spatial ability) |
| reflective judgement | way in which adults reason through real-life dilemmas |
| returning adult students | college students over the age of 25 |
| rites of passage | rituals marking initiation into adulthood |
| role transitions | movement into the next stage of development marked by assumption of new responsibilites and duties |
| scenario | manifestation of the life-span construct through expectations about the future |
| secondary control | behavior or cognition aimed at affecting the individuals internal world |
| secondary menal abilities | broader intellectual skills that subsume and organize the primary abilities |
| social clock | tagging future events with a particular time or age by which they are able to completed |
Created by:
astarkey18
Popular Psychology sets