Adolescence
According to Erikson, this is the major personality attainment of adolescence.
What is "identity?"
Adults in their early twenties mention various, diverse _______, options for how they can see their lives playing out.
What are possible selves?
Erikson believed that successful resolution of intimacy versus isolation prepares the individual for the middle adulthood stage, which focuses on this.
What is generativity?
Approximately 5.2 million Americans live with specific type of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
The process in which organs stop functioning in a sequence that varies from person to person.
What is death?
This is an eating disorder included in the DSM that typically leads to overweight and obesity.
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
This is now the preferred mode of entry into a committed intimate partnership among U.S. young people.
What is cohabitation?
Several earlier studies have reported an increase in _____ in both men and women in midlife.
What is androgyny?
This type of housing can enhance residents' autonomy and life satisfaction.
What is assisted living?
This is the stage of death in which the individual passes into permanent death.
What is mortality?
This person conceptualized 6 stages of moral development.
Who is Kohlberg?
This developmental stage may only exist for higher SES individuals in westernized countries.
What is "emerging adulthood?"
Women who have not done this tend to reach menopause earlier.
What is borne children?
This is a common technique used by many older adults to compensate for their difficulties in producing language.
What is using more sentences to convey their message?
Grievers who get stuck in this phase are at risk for intense, long-lasting grief reactions that interfere with recovery.
What is avoidance?
Due to more perspective-taking opportunities, these older adolescents tend to be more advanced in moral reasoning.
Who are college students?
Physical changes of aging begin in this system in the late thirties, accelerate in the fifties, and slow in the seventies.
What is the skeletal system?
In middle adulthood, _______ can limit the age-related rise in illness.
What is stress management?
After cardiovascular disease and cancer, this is the most common cause of death among the aged.
What is respiratory diseases?
In this document, people specify the treatments they do or do not want in case of a terminal illness, coma, or other near-death situation.
What is a living will?
Differences in these skills are believed to be major contributors to a widening gender gap in college enrollments.
What are literacy skills?
In early adulthood, about 40% of Americans are _____, with no regular brief sessions of even light activity.
What is "inactive?"
As people discover that they are no longer as good as they once were at certain tasks, they accommodate, shifting to activities that depend more on this type of knowledge.
What is accumulated knowledge?
This diagnosis is most often misdiagnosed as dementia in older adults.
What is depression?
This is legal in California, Montana, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.
What is medical aid-in-dying?