Early Adulthood
Spans from the late teens to the mid- to late twenties.
What is Emerging adulthood
The hundreds of personality traits on which individuals differ have been reduced to five basic factors—the “big five” personality traits: neuroticism, __________, __________, __________, and __________.
What is extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
Who is the psychologist known for his psychosexual theory?
What is Sigmund Freud
Who is the psychologist known for his psychosexual theory?
What is Sigmund Freud
A correlation of -1 means:
What is As one variable goes up, the other goes down
A type of parental overprotection that is linked to indicators of poor adjustment - likely interferes with emerging adults’ ability to acquire the skills they need to act on their own.
What is Helicopter parenting
Skills that depend on accumulated knowledge and experience, good judgment, and mastery of social conventions—increases steadily through middle adulthood.
Crystallized intelligence
The species-specific biological limit to length of life (in years), corresponding to the age at which the oldest known individual died. The oldest verified age is 122 years, but scientists disagree on whether this figure represents the upper bound of human longevity.
What is Maximum lifespan
The color of a person’s hair is an example of which type of gene expression
What is phenotype
A type of research method where the researchers observe people in their natural environments
What is Naturalistic observation
The acquisition of extensive knowledge in a field or endeavor—has a profound effect on information processing.
What is Expertise
Reaching out to others in ways that give to and guide the next generation—expands greatly in midlife
What is Generativity
Erikson’s final psychological conflict, which involves coming to terms with one’s life.
What is Ego integrity versus despair
The sociocultural theory was developed by what theorist? This theory focuses on how the culture of a social group is transmitted to the next generation through social interaction—in particular, cooperative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society.
What is Lev Vygotsky
A study when the same people are studied over a period of time
What is a longitudinal design
Passionate love is strong at the beginning of a relationship but gradually declines in favor of intimacy and commitment, which form the basis for companionate love and eventually for __________ love, based on concern for the other’s well-being.
What is Compassionate
The leading cause of blindness in middle aged adults.
What is Glaucoma
Telling stories about people and events from the past and reporting associated thoughts and feelings.
What is Reminiscence
This theory surmises that children move through four broad developmental stages, each characterized by qualitatively distinct ways of thinking: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
What is Jean Piaget’s cognitive-developmental theory
This is the study of culture - Observation through living and participating in different cultures.
What is Ethnography
A type of marriage, whereby partners share power and authority, balancing the time and energy they devote to their occupations, their children, and their relationship.
What is Egalitarian marriage
This term is widely used to refer to the idea that middle-aged adults must care for multiple generations above and below them at the same time.
What is Sandwich generation
____% percent of U.S. women age 65 and older are widowed, compared with just 12 percent of men.
What is 34%
A theory that holds the human mind as a symbol-manipulating system through which information flows. It's view of development is one of continuous change.
What is Information-processing theory
Research method is which different age groups are studied at same point in time.
What is Cross-sectional Design