Human Connection
The term "choice overload" in relation to mate selection in young adulthood highlights the impact of these modern dating tools.
What are Matchmaking (Dating) Sites/Apps
This Eriksonian crisis occurs as middle-aged adults seek to contribute to the next generation, with care as a core component.
What is Generativity vs. Stagnation
These early comparisons of IQ at different ages were conducted by the U.S. military, finding a potentially misleading result showing a sharp drop in IQ after age 25.
What are Cross-Sectional Studies
This eating disorder is characterized by strict attempts to lose weight by dieting or restricting calories to the point of starvation.
What is Anorexia (Nervosa)
This Eriksonian crisis follows - and often overlaps with - identity formation; it's a time when young adults are interested in long-term relationships.
What is the Intimacy vs. Isolation Crisis
Psychologists believe that a career in adulthood can help satisfy generativity through these two kinds of rewards which allow deeper satisfaction than a job taken solely for money.
What are Intrinsic and Extrinsic Rewards
Modern psychologists think it's best to use other components of intelligence (rather than a general IQ) when measuring intellectual changes in adulthood, including these two different types.
What are Crystallized and Fluid Intelligences
What is the Morality of Care
This term refers to differing styles and manners of showing (and preferences for receiving) affection to one's partner in romantic relationships.
What is Love Language
Maslow's hierarchy of needs highlighted that people must achieve esteem in order to reach this highest level of the hierarchy in which they feel the most personal fulfillment in life.
What is Self-Actualization
Modern psychologists typically track personality development in adulthood using these traits.
What are the Big Five
This hormone is often linked to long-term commitment in a relationship.
What is Oxytocin
While many young adults are delaying marriage, there is also an increase in this living situation, leading many psychologists to believe that relationships are still important, even if marriage isn't.
What is Cohabitation
This term refers to the "barrier" employees sometimes encounter when attempting to progress within their careers, which is often linked to their minority status.
What is a Glass Ceiling
This term refers to the many middle-aged adults who may feel pressured to support both their own children and their own parents simultaneously.
What is the Sandwich Generation
Adults sometimes devote their free time to this type of work which carries the advantage of being less discriminating towards workers.
What is Volunteer Work
Sternberg's triarchic theory of love includes these three components - each of which follows a different trajectory over time.
What are Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment
This term refers to the feeling that an employee may have at work in which they don't feel connected to their job, often due to a sense that the labor is meaningless.
What is Alienation
Individuals sometimes use others' perceptions of themselves as information in establishing their own identity using these evaluations.
What are Reflected Appraisals
This occurs when a couple is unable to resolve relationship issues due to the idea that one partner is motivated while the other is not.
What is a Demand/Withdraw Interaction