Physical and Cognitive Development in Young Adulthood
The stage of cognitive development proposed after Piaget’s 4 stages.
Postformal thought
Erikson describes this psychosocial conflict during young adulthood.
Intimacy vs. Isolation
John says “all old people smell bad.” John’s statement is a good example of:
Agism/Ageist stereotypes
According to Piaget, if new events and changing circumstances can be absorbed into one’s self-concept, this defines the process called
assimilation
The stage of the Kubler-Ross Grief cycle marked by frustration, irritability, and anxiety.
Anger
The process of generating multiple ideas to maximize the range of possible solutions, applications, examples, etc.
Divergent thinking
The type of motivation where you derive feelings of success and achievement in your work.
Intrinsic motivation
A disease that involves a progressive deterioration of brain cells, especially in the cerebral cortex, and is a common form of dementia?
Alzheimer’s disease
The final stage in Erikson’s theory
integrity versus despair
The age group where magical thinking surrounding death would be most common.
Preschoolers
How one measures how they progressing marked by key social events throughout young adulthood
Age clock
Name 2 "types" of Holland’s Theory of Careers.
Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional
An environmental factor that is thought to be a positive correlation for older people to also improve cognitive functioning.
Exercise
A component of well-being in older adulthood where one is self-determining and independent and also able to resist social pressures.
Autonomy/Autonomous
The terror management theory describes that feelings of potential terror towards death stem from which 2 clashing cognitions?
Desire for self-preservation and awareness of mortality.
Schaie’s Stage of Adult Thinking where previous knowledge is applied to solving problems in everyday life.
Achieving period
According to Csikszentmihalyi, in order to continue to achieve flow, the more skill and confidence level you have in a task, the more _______you need to have as well.
Degree of challenge
Cohort name of people aged 90 and over
Very old-old
Joe is struggling with being a widower after his partner died. What is the name of the role change that Joe is struggling with?
Status passage
The type of care provided to people who have a terminal illness with a projected prognosis of living 6 months of less.
Hospice care
One of three largest declines in biological system functioning of young adults.
Maximum breathing capacity, useful lung volume, muscle strength
Generalizing from research described in the text, if you were to study couples in dual-earner families, you would expect to find the highest levels of stress for people in which demographic group?
women in professional-level jobs
If Sara believes that aging is the result of chromosome breakage that occurs each time a cell divides and accumulates until the cell no longer can reproduce itself, her view is most similar to:
biological clock theory of aging
1 of 3 main factors that influence a person's adjustment to retirement.
Attitude toward work, economic status, health
Intrusion of grief and denial of restoration changes are described as what kind of coping to loss?
Loss-oriented