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Life Span Development Santrock Chapter 13
Chapter 13 of Life Span Development Textbook by John Santrock. Extra Material from Lecture
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Undergraduate 1
04/24/2012

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Emerging Adulthood
Definition
Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood 
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Key Features of Emerging Adulthood
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Identity Exploration 

Instability

Self-Focused

Feeling in-Between

The age of possiblities 

 

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Markers to becoming an adult (in US)
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Holding Full Time Job

Economic Independence

Taking responsibility for oneself

 

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Marker for Adulthood in Developing Countries
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Marriage
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True or False: 

Today's College Students are less stressed and less depressed than in the past

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False
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What are some physical developments in early adulthood?
Definition

Reaching peak performance (by age 30, usually between 19-26)

Muscle tone and strength usually begin to slow

 

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True or False? 

Bad health habits emerge during adolescence and increase during early adulthood

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True
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True or False: 

Heavy binge drinking increases in college

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True
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How likely are binge drinking college students likely to fall behind in school?
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11 times more likely
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Drinking alcohol before going out is called?
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Pregaming
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Higher levels of alcohol abuse are linked to: 

 

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Higher sexual risk taking

engaging in casual sex

sex without contraception

sexual assaults

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Alcoholism
Definition
disorder that involves long-term, repeated, uncontrolled, compulsive, and excessive use of alcoholic beverages and that impairs the drinker's health and social relationships
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Reflective and Relativistic Thinking
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become aware of the diverse opinions and multiple perspectives of others 

important indicator of cognitive change in young adults 

 

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Preformal thought
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involves understanding that the correct answer to a problem requires reflective thinking and can vary from one situation to another and that the search for truth is often an ongoing never-ending process.
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What is considered to be the final cognitive stage?
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Formal Operations
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Age when the prefrontal cortex is said to be fully developed
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20
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What is the 5th stage of development?
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Postformal Thought
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Dialetical Thought
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most advanced cognitive process; characterized by the ability to consider a theseis and its antithesis simultaneously and thus to arrive at a synthesis
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