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| the developmental of organisms |
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| we grow and add new characteristics, understandings, skills and so on to our behavioral repertoire |
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maintainance of resilience
(second kind of adaptation) |
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| finding ways to continue functioning at the same level in the face of challenges or restoring our functioning after we suffer a loss. |
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regulation of loss
(third kind of adaptation) |
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reorganizing the way we behave
adjusting expectations and accepting a lower level of functioning |
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| big 5 - 5 factor model of personality |
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the most basic dimensions of personality
neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness |
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| tense, touchy, self pity, unstable mood |
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| outgoing, active assertive |
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| creative, artistic, curious |
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| warm, sympathetic, generous |
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| organized, planful, reliable |
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| as people enter adulthood, they are growing up |
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| growing down, changes that we are making as we age. For example hair loss |
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| the gradual production of reproducive ability that a woman usually within her 30's, shortening of mentsraul cycle |
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| the cesation of menustration uually staring in a womens 40's and lasting atleast 10 years. |
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| a form of the primary female hormone |
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| female hormone produced by ovaries |
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| a substance in the cells of the dermis or middle layer of skin allows the skin to stretch and contrast as we move |
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| fluid intellegence (mechanics) |
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| basic operational characteristics that seem to directly reflect how well the hardware of the nervous system is working |
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| crystallized intellegence (pragmatics) |
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| compilation of skills and information that we have obtained over our lifeime |
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| ego integrity (vs despair) |
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| a process of lifes review helps the elderly adult to develope a sense that her life was worth living |
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| career consolidation (vs self absorption) |
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| in addition to ongoing intamacy concerns, making a commitment to work that bring personal satisfaction |
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keeper of meaning (vs rigidity)
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| when the adult expands her generaive concerns beyond just making producive contribution |
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| pattern of relationships between one self and the external world |
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history graded events
provides a context for developement and also influences it directly
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| developement is influenced by the intersection of chronological age... |
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| simularity of oneself into religion, SES, race education and o on. |
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| a trial period or a period of cohabitiion, represents the final stage in the decision making process |
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| view posits that overly romantic idealizations of marriage and blissfully optimistic views of ones partner set people up for disappointment |
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| positive solutions are supported by of relationships, thus they may abandon them to face reality. |
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| social exchange and behavioral theories |
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| purposes that increasing problems and mounting conflicts gradually escalate to overwhelm the originally positive perceptions spouses held for one another. |
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| draws on theories of attachment or personality; emphasize the contribution of one's personal history or temperment to the success or failure of relationships |
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| this state is maintained over time to stabilize or unique balance of positive or negative elements in areas of interacive behavior, perception and physiology. |
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| negative affect reciprocity |
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| negative emotions of one parner will follow by he negative emotions of the other partner |
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| four horseman of the apocalypse |
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criticism, defensiveness, gibtenot abd stonewalling
pg 444 |
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| emerging adults begin to move away and become more self sufficient |
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| person in extended family who keeps the family together |
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| the individual who carries on quite the responsibility to make decisions and keep family together. |
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| a role that compenates for a role that failes |
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generating, creating, and producing things, people events and so on as powerful extensions of self
depends on self kowledge |
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| the adults desire to care for the next generation |
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conributions between leadership developement and success for women and men.
the role influences the behavior |
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| the set of age related exectations that we all have for major life events |
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| posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
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| one of the few anxiety disorders whose impact is known. |
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| strategies that clinicians can use |
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calm down
speak non defensively
validate
overlearning
pay attention to the little things
pg 452
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