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| underlying design of a person's life consisting of relationships with others |
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| Levinson's Seasons of Life said early adulthood is... |
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| era of greatest energy and abundance, contradiction and stress. |
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| Sequence of Early Adulthood |
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| Early Adult Transition (17-22; psychological/economic independence, dreams and mentors), Stable Phase (22-28; autonomous, intimacy) Age-30 Transition (28-33; re-evaluate), Stable Phase (33-40; settling down, career) |
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| re-evaluate life structure. Men focus more on marriage, women more on career. Crisis for those without relationship or career. Men settle down, women instability. |
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| age graded expectations for major life events. not on clock causes lower self esteem. |
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| 3 Types of Romantic Relationships with Attachment |
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| secure= comfortable with intimacy, trust, happiness and friendship. avoidant= independence, mistrust, jealousy, distance, little physical pleasure. resistant= quick love, complete merging, jealousy, desperation, highs and lows. |
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| Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love |
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| 3 components shift over time. INTIMACY, PASSION & COMMITMENT. Passionate is strong at start and fades while intimacy and commitment grow. |
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| Sequence of Family Life Cycle |
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| early adulthood: leave home, marriage and children. middle adulthood: launch children. late adulthood: retirement and death of one's spouse. |
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| Traditional vs. Egalitarian Marriage |
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| Traditional the woman cares for family and house, men support family. Egalitarian equal power, balance attention on career and family. |
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| is most important predictor of success |
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| Choosing to have Children |
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| 70% of couples, family size has decreased. older when they have their first children. |
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| more traditional roles after first child, less traditional after 2nd, can strain struggled marriage |
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| "old eyes" lens ability to adjust to objects at varying distances declines |
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| "old hearing" 14%, hearing loss due to age. loss at high frequencies and men's declines earlier and faster. |
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| fat accumulates on upper abs and back (men) and waist and upper arms (women). muscle mass declines in 40s and 50s. bone loss begins in 30s and a lot in 50s. |
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| fertility declines. permimenopause is 10 year climacteric marked by drop in estrogen. |
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| avg. age is 51. reduction in estrogen and progesterone. risk of heart disease. weight gain, headaches, sexual responsiveness. not linked to irritability, sleep disturbances or depression. |
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| women have fewer children today, minor physical symptoms, tied to beliefs and expectations. |
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| Hormone Replacement Theory |
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| daily doses of estrogen (ERT) with progesterone (HRT). Increase in breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes, blood clots. Alzheimer's and cognitive declines. Reduces hot flashes, vaginal dryness, bone benefits. |
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| control of life, commitment to activities, challenge is normal and helps growth |
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| Fluid vs. Crystallized Intelligence |
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| Fluid depends on basic information processing skills. (speed and memory). declines in early 20s. Crystallized is skills that depend on accumulated knowledge and experience, good judgment, influenced by culture, increases through middle adulthood. |
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| Seattle Longitudinal Study |
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| middle ages adults are in their prime. gains in fluid and crystallized in early and middle adulthood. speed decreased 20s to 80s. fluid factors decreased more than crystallized. |
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| Individual Differences in Intelligence |
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| 45-60% stable unitl 70s, 10-15% increase until 70s, 30% declines by 60s. |
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| Valliant's Adaption to Life |
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| 20s devoted to intimacy, 30s career, 40s giving and guiding others, 50-60s culture and values, 70s spiritual and reflective |
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| Friendships in middle adulthood |
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| women keep friends longer, more same-sex friends than men. other-sex are important but less common. more frequent for women in the work place. |
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| both parents are employed, dominant family form today |
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| Generativity vs. Stagnation |
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| giving, realized through child rearing, beyond yourself vs. placing yourself first, self-centered, lack of concern for young people |
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| Levinson's Middle Adult Season |
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| midlife transition (40-45 time running out, evaluate, drastic or small changes. |
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| Levinson's Four Tasks of Middle Adulthood |
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| young-old: what is important, destruction-creation: desire to be creative, masculinity-femininity: balance parts of self, engagement-separateness: balance with external world |
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| future oriented representations of what one hopes to become and is afraid of becoming |
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| Conflict Habituated, devitalized (early years trouble), passive-congenial (general indifference), vital (genuine caring), total relationship |
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| devitalized, conflicted, traditional, harmonious & vitalized. traditional: moderate satisfaction, poor sex life, poor communication, strong mutual religion |
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| sandwich generation, stressful if in house )10%), social support is key |
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| 78, women 4-7 years longer. active lifespan is amount of years of vigorous, healthy life. |
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| live past 100, supposed to increase, environment and lifestyle and heredity |
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| structural and chemical brain deterioration, gradual loss of thought and behavior, neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, abnormal breakdown of amyloid in brain |
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| Familial: early onset before 65, progresses rapidly. Sporadic: no family history |
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| Remote vs. Prospective Memory |
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| remote is long term, autobiographical and recent events, prospective is remembering to engage in planned actions- event based is easier than time based tasks |
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| Deliberate vs. automatic Memory |
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| deliberate is purposeful and requires more effort. automatic is unconscious and requires little effort. |
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| Selective Optimization with Compensation |
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| choose personally valued activities and avoid others, devote resources to valued activities, find creative ways to overcome limitations |
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| Factors related to Cognitive Change |
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| mentally active life, health, retirement, distance to death |
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| Ego Integrity vs. Despair |
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| feel whole, complete, satisfied w. life's achievements, psych. maturity. vs. many decisions were wrong, time too short, bitter, not accepting of death, anger at others |
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| cosmic and transcendent perspective directed forward and outward beyond self. inner calm and contentment, quiet reflection. |
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| recall, reflect and reconsider meaning of past experience |
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| Labouvie-Vief's Emotional Expertise |
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| affect optimization improves in old age. ability to maximize positive emotion. |
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| Religion in Late Adulthood |
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| 76% say religion is VERY important. not universal. cultural, SES & sex differences. |
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