Adolescence
A ceremony or ritual that marks an individual’s transition from one status to another.
What is a rite of passage?
An explanation of why individuals are attracted to people who are similar to them which proposes that our own attitudes and behavior are supported and validated when someone else’s attitudes and behavior are similar to ours.
What is consensual validation?
The approximate age range at which middle adulthood begins.
The theory that the more active and involved older adults are, the more likely they are to be satisfied with their lives.
What is activity theory?
Kübler-Ross’ second stage of dying, in which the dying person’s denial gives way to resentment, rage, and envy.
What is anger?
This part of the brain does not finish maturing until emerging adulthood or later.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Proposed as a potential fifth stage of Piaget's theory, this refers to thinking that is reflective, relativistic, contextual, provisional, realistic, and recognized as being influenced by emotions.
What is postformal thought?
A decrease in marital satisfaction that occurs after children leave home.
What is empty nest syndrome?
Expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life that permits excellent judgment about important matters.
What is wisdom?
A legal document that reflects a patient's advance care planning.
What is a living will?
Erikson's fifth developmental stage, which individual's experience during adolescence.
What is identity versus identity confusion?
According to Sternberg, this is the strongest, fullest form of love, which includes emotional intimacy, physical passion, and commitment.
What is consummate love?
The ability to reason abstractly, which begins to decline from middle adulthood onward, according to Horn.
What is fluid intelligence?
Individuals 100 years and older.
What are centenarians?
Withholding available treatments, such as life-sustaining devices, in order to allow a person to die.
What is passive euthanasia?
Marcia’s term for the status of individuals who have not yet experienced a crisis (explored meaningful alternatives) or made any commitments.
What is identity diffusion?
Theory that although we prefer a more attractive person in the abstract, in the real world we end up choosing someone who is close to our own level of attractiveness.
What is the matching hypothesis?
Erikson's seventh developmental stage, which individuals experience during middle adulthood.
What is generativity versus stagnation?
A person’s knowledge about the world—including one’s fields of expertise, general academic knowledge of the sort learned in school, and “everyday knowledge.”
What is semantic memory?
Kübler-Ross’ fifth stage of dying, in which the dying person develops a sense of peace and in many cases, a desire to be left alone.
What is acceptance?
An eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation.
What is anorexia nervosa?
The most widely recognized marker of entry into adulthood in the United States.
What is holding a more or less permanent, full-time job?
The leading cause of death in middle adulthood in the United States.
What is cancer?
A pattern of change in old age which characterizes individuals whose physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development is maintained longer than for most individuals and declines later than for most people.
What is successful aging?
Laws in this number of states currently accept an advance directive such as a living will.
What is 50?
The part of adolescent egocentrism that involves an adolescent’s sense of uniqueness and invincibility (or invulnerability).
What is the personal fable?
In developing countries, this tends to occur much earlier than in the United States and is considered a significant marker for entry into adulthood.
What is marriage?
A common complaint voiced by both adult children and their parents after adult children move back home.
What is a loss of privacy?
The stage(s) of the lifespan when most of our wisdom is acquired.
What are late adolescence and early adulthood?
By this age, many young children understand the irreversibility of death and that it involves the cessation of mental and physical functioning.
What is 4 to 5 years old?