Life Course Concepts
This perspective examines how age, relationships, transitions, and social change shape lives.
What is the life course perspective?
Age-graded roles and behaviors expected by society.
What is social age?
The trimester when the fetus is considered viable.
What is the third trimester?
Fertility problems are attributed equally to males and females in this percent.
What is 50%?
The life course perspective is useful because it acknowledges this aspect of people’s lives. (
What is diversity?
A change in roles and statuses that marks a distinct departure from prior roles.
What is a Transition?
The age measured by organ system functioning.
What is biological age?
The trimester with the most rapid brain development.
What is the third trimester?
Miscarriage is defined as fetal loss before this gestational week.
What is 20 weeks?
Conjoint agency resides in these types of relationships.
What are relationships between interdependent selves?
A long-term pattern of stability and change involving multiple transitions.
What is a trajectory?
The age based on adaptive capacities and coping skills.
What is psychological age?
Risk factors for prematurity include STDs, obesity, and this.
What is smoking?
These two groups have twice the infertility rate but use services less.
Who are Black and Hispanic women?
The population pyramid helps us understand this.
What is labor stratification by age cohorts?
A significant occurrence that may produce serious and lasting effects.
What is a life event?
Laws and policies that regulate timing of role transitions.
What is age structuring?
Protective factors during pregnancy include support, care, and this.
What is accident prevention?
Most abortions in the U.S. occur during this time frame.
What is the first 12 weeks of pregnancy?
Each parent’s cells have this many chromosomes.
What is 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs?
This concept suggests that one life transition can impact future transitions and risks.
What is developmental risk and protection?
A U.S. age norm expects children to do this at age 18.
What is leave the parental home?
Infants under 3 lbs 3 oz are classified as this.
What is extremely low birth weight?
This contains codes for producing traits and dispositions.
What is a gene?
The social meaning of childbearing in the U.S. has done this over time. (Answer: What is changed dramatically?
What is changed dramatically?