Chapter 8
Name two changes that happen to Boys and Girls when they hit puberty
Girl: Menstrual cycle and breast development
Boys: grow taller and voice drops
The formal operations stage where the we start to think scientifically and hypothetically is whose theory?
Piaget
A new stage of life phase. This stage of life begins a little after High School and tapers off in late 20s, devoted to constructing your adult self/identity.
Emerging Adulthood
Work that provides inner fulfillment, allowing people to satisfy their needs for creativity, autonomy, and relatedness
Intrinsic Career rewards
This facet of intelligence consists of the ability to quickly master new intellectual activities.
Fluid Intelligence
True or False? Teen pregnancies are at an all time high right now.
False
The belief that no one else is going through what we are
Personal Fable
True or False: Every culture has the same age norms for reaching adult milestones like moving out, getting a job, marriage, etc
FALSE
Sternbergs Triangular theory of love consists of what 3 facets?
Intimacy, Commitment, Passion
This physical development occurs in women around age 50, when estrogen production falls off dramatically and women stop ovulating.
Menopause
The centuries-long decline in the average age at which children reach puberty.
the secular trend in Puberty
What is a phrase for the intense moodiness, emotional sensitivity, and risk-taking tendencies that characterize the life stages labeled adolescence?
Storm and stress
This form of adult attachment consists of a clingy & needy style of relating to loved ones
Preoccupied/Ambivalent
The “Fairness in the “work” of a couple’s life together can be defined as...
Marital Equity
When grandparents are solely responsible for care/raising of their grandchildren
Caregiving Grandparents
This Causes the Gonads to develop and secret hormones
HPG axis
What is Socialization of a young teenager into delinquency through conversations centered on performing antisocial acts
Deviancy training
This is the last stage of identity, when someone has officially settled on an indentity
Achievement
According to Sternberg: The Ideal form of love
Consummate Love
Grandparenthood has evolved to help our species survive. Monitoring younger family members and intervening when there is crisis.
Family Watchdogs
What are the three types of Eating disorders? Briefly describe them.
Anorexia Nervosa: starvation that causes sever weight loss and loss of menstrual cycle
Bulimia Nervosa: A cycle of binging and purging
Binge eating: Recurrent out of control eating
The three stages of Kholberg´s Moral code theory.
Post-conventional thought, conventional thought, pre-conventional thought
What caused the creation of "Emerging Adulthood"
Education/New job requirements
A job that places so many demands on workers that it becomes impossible to do a good job.
Role overload
Erikson’s 7th psychosocial task, when people in midlife find meaning from nurturing the next generation
Generavity