YA Development
This attachment style in young adulthood is marked by a strong desire for closeness, fear of abandonment, and often heightened sensitivity to relationship dynamics.
What is anxious attachment style?
A period of self-reflection and reevaluation often occurring in middle adulthood, characterized by questioning life choices, career paths, and personal relationships.
What is a mid-life crisis?
Erik Erikson identified this psychosocial stage as the primary conflict of late adulthood, focusing on reflection and acceptance of one's life.
What is ego v desparity?
The main developmental conflict in Erikson’s stage for young adulthood
What is Intimacy vs. isolation?
The state of having lost someone through death
What is bereavement?
Rituals marking initiation into adulthood, often among the most important ones in a culture?
What are rites of passage?
This role, often a concern in mid adulthood, involves the physical and emotional adjustment to caring for aging parents or relatives.
What is a caregiver?
The length of your life that is jointly determined by genetic and environmental factors.
What is longevity?
Erikson's the psychosocial conflict during middle adulthood?
What is generativity vs. stagnation?
A coma and permanent stop in breathing and brainstem reflexes.
What is whole brain death?
People’s ability to recognize their own and others’ emotions, to correctly identify and appropriately tell the difference between emotions, and use this information to guide their thinking and behavior
What is emotional intelligence?
This term describes the natural, age-related biological changes, including reduced bone density and slower metabolism, typically beginning in one's 40s and 50
What is aging?
This is the most common mental health disorder among older adults
What is major depressive disorder?
According to Piaget, the type of thinking develops after formal operational thought and allows adults to handle ambiguity and contradiction
Grief not acknowledged by society, like for a pet or an ex-partner
What is disenfranchised grief?
Name one major physical change that typically begins in young adulthood.
What is a decline in muscle mass or metabolism?
The most common type of cancer for men
What is prostate cancer?
This type of memory involves unconscious recall, like riding a bike, while this other type requires conscious effort, like remembering facts for a test.
What is implicit and explicit memory?
The term for Paul Baltes’ idea that successful aging involves maximizing gains and minimizing losses
What is selective optimization with compensation?
Grief that occurs before the actual loss happens.
What is anticipatory grief?
A triangular theory that suggests love is comprised of three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment?
What is Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love?
This transitional phase before menopause is marked by hormonal changes, irregular menstrual cycles, and symptoms like hot flashes and mood swings
What is perimenopause?
this process occurs when the brain experiences slower communication between neurons, which can affect memory and learning
what is slower processing speed?
The theory suggests that older adults reduce social contacts and focus on emotionally meaningful relationships as they age
What is socioemotional selectivity theory?
Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief.
What is Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance?