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Exam 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Explain how Piaget's viewed adolescents and young adults differently. | Adults are more qualitatively more advanced (increased knowledge in specific areas). Adults and adolescents think qualitvely in the same way. |
| Explain how physical performance develops during early adulthood. | Most of us reach peak physical performance before the age of 30 (19-26). Start to decline after 30, sensory systems start to deuterate, first eyes lose elasticity then hearing declines at the end of early adulthood. |
| Explain how young adults take care of their health. | Poor eating choices (obesity substance, use insufficient health care). Failing to eat breakfast and don't eat regular meals. Relying on snacks for main food source, smoking moderately or excessively, and not getting advanced sleep. |
| Identify the 4 characteristics of Postformal thought. | 1.Reflective, relativistic, and contextual (what might be the situation may not be the best in another). 2.Provisional (more skeptical about the truth) 3. Realistic (thinking doesn't always have to be abstract) 4. Recognizing emotions influence thought |
| Identify some markers of becoming an adult. | taxes, living alone, stable job, financial freedom, children, bills, marriage, etc (don't worry about this one). |
| Identify and explain the 3 adult attachment styles. | 1. Secure (positive views on relationship, find it easy to get close) 2. Avoidant (hesitant about getting into relationship) 3. Anxious (demand closeness, are less trusting and more jealous). |
| Identify and explain Erikson's 6th development stage. | Intimacy Vs. Isolation: Finding oneself while losing oneself in another person. |
| Explain and give examples of Romantic Love. | Strong components of sexuality and infatuation; often predominant early in a relationship. Complex emotions: jealously, anger, passion, fear, sexual desires, joy. |
| Explain and give examples of Affectionate Love. | Love is more than passion. Companion love. Type of love that occurs when someone desires to have another person near and has a deep affection for them. |
| Explain what puberty is and identify the changes that take place. | Most important marker for the start of adolescence. Brain neuroenzyme process occurring primarily in early adolescence that provides stimulation for the rapid changes that take place. 1. Social Maturation and 2. Increase in height and weight. |
| Explain and identify the hormonal changes during puberty. | Girls outweigh boys until 14 and then it switches. Girls' breasts develop, growth of pubic hairs, and onset for menstruation. Boys genital change, voice changes, and increase in height. |
| Explain how body image affects adolescents. | How social media affects it. fitting in and looking the same as other people becomes even more important. |
| Identify how early and late maturation affects adolescent boys and girls. | For most boys' puberty starts as early as 10 and as late as 13.5 and may end as early as 13 and as late as 17. For most girl's menarche is considered normal range if it occurs between 9 and 15. |
| What is Anorexia Nervosa? | Involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation (more likely in females). |
| What is Bulimia Nervosa? | constitiently follows binge and purge. Overeating followed by engaging in self-inducing vomiting, |
| Piaget's Formal Operational Stage. | Abstract thinking. Thinking about thought, hypotheticals, things that aren't right there in front of you. |
| What is Imaginary Audience? give example. | the belief that others are interested in them as they are in themselves. |
| What is Personal Fable? give example. | A sense of uniqueness invulnerability and invincibility. Engage in risky behaviors, reckless driving, unprotected sex, and drug use. |
| What is identify? ? | the self protrait of one person that is composed of many parts and domains. |
| What are the 10 domains of identity? | 1.political 2.relationship 3.career 4.religious identity 5.achievement intellectual 6 cultural and ethnic 7.sexual identity 8.interets 9.personality 10.physical identity |
| What is Erikson's 5th developmental stage? | Identity Vs. Identity confusion: asks 3 questions who am I? what am I doing? where am I going? |
| What is Psychosocial Moratorium? | Gap between childhood security and adult autonomy. Exploring your identity. Changing as many things about yourself as possible. |
| crisis and commitment in James Marcia's 4 States of Identity? Identity diffusion | not committed, not in crisis |
| What are James Marcia's 4 Statuses of Identity? | Identity Diffusion Identity Foreclosure Identity Moratorium Identity Achievement |
| What is Ethnic Identity? | Enduring aspects of the self that include a sense of membership in a ethnic group along with others and feeling of that group. |
| What is Bicultural identity? | Individual identifies in some ways with their ethnic group and in other ways with majority culture. |
| How does identity change across generations? | 1st: secure in their identity, adopt to new culture. 2nd: more likely to think of themselves as "Americans" citizenship is granted as birth. Ethnic identity is maintained through language and ethnic relationships. 3rd: kids of 2nd (complex). |
| How do parents handle the push for autonomy during adolescence? | Shows that they're success and failures are their own and not due to their parents spend time with their peers. |
| Explain how attachment styles affect adolescents | Parents play a key role in influencing adolescent development. Insecure: more likely to engage in risky behaviors, behavioral problems Secure: less likely to engage in risky behaviors, fewer problems. |
| Harry Stack Sullivan | Influential theorist who discussed the importance of friendships in adolescence. "Adolescence want close intimate relationships with a small group of friends". |
| Identify what emerging adulthood is. | (18-24) Phase of the life span between adolescence and adulthood, A period to experience possibilities and define oneself. |
| Jeffery Arnett's 5 Key Features that characterize Emerging adulthood. | 1.Identity exploration-exploring new 2.Instability-residential, finance 3. Self-focused-little obligation/social promises. 4. Concept of feeling in between-not quite in adolescence/adult 5. Age of possibility-optimism about the future, reorientation |
| crisis and commitment in James Marcia's 4 States of Identity? Identity foreclosure | crisis absent, commitment present. |
| crisis and commitment in James Marcia's 4 States of Identity? Identity achievement | crisis is present, commitment present. |
| crisis and commitment in James Marcia's 4 States of Identity? Identity moratorium | crisis is present, commitment absent . |
| example of which status of James Marcia? People who can't last long in a relationship | Identity diffusion |
| example of which status of James Marcia? visiting different types of churches | Identity moratorium |
| example of which status of James Marcia? a woman who grows up tall may be expected to be a supermodel | Identity foreclosure |
| example of which status of James Marcia? businessman who decides midlife to pursue religion vocations. | Identity achievement |