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| Who has the theory of Crisis of Identity vs. confusion? |
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| Term for adolescence as a "time out" period to explore identity |
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| Successful resolution of Erickson identity crisis leads to... |
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1. choice of occupation
2. adoption of values
3. development of sexual identity |
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| Who has the theory of crisis vs commitment? |
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| Crisis resolved, and commitment found |
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| Crisis resolved, and commitment found |
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| Commitment without crisis |
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| Crisis without commitment |
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| 2 biological difference between homo- and heterosexual people? |
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| Size of hypothalamus, pheromone attraction |
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| Average age for 1st intercourse |
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| 17 for females, 16 for males |
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| Top reasons for adolescents abstaining from sex |
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| religion and morals, pregnancy concerns |
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| Factors associated with early sex |
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| Early puberty, poverty, poor school performance, history of sexual abuse, neglect, family patterns, perception of peer norms |
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| 1 in 4 new cases occur among 15-19 year olds |
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| one unprotected sexual experience has ____% chance of contracting herpes |
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| one unprotected sexual experience has ____% chance of contracting gonorrhea |
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| 2 types of antisocial behavior |
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1. early onset- begins by age 11, most likely to be problematic later in life
2. late onset- starts after puberty, usually just a phase of adolescent risk taking |
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| Term for community support which contributes to adolescent delinquency |
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| 3 criteria people use for adulthood |
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1. Accepting responsibility for oneself 2. Making independent decisions
3. Becoming financially independent |
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| ____% of young people in the US have had sex by age 20 |
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| Number of girls pregnant before age 20 |
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| period from late teens to late twenties |
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| Rates of injury, homicide, and substance use peak during |
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| The obesity epidemic has been influenced by: |
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| increase in snacking, availability of fast food, supersized portions, high-fat diets, labor-saving technologies, and sedentary recreation like TV |
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| learning of complex motor skills and consolidates previous learning |
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| active engagement in a broad range of social relationships, activities,and roles |
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| material, information and psychological resources derived from a social network on which a person can rely for help in coping with stress |
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| 2 indirect influences on health (terms) |
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| social integration, social support |
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| heritability of alcohol dependence |
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| Drug use peaks at ages 18-20 |
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| Antisocial behavior rises in ______ and ______ in adulthood |
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| adolescence, and sharply drops |
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| Depression increases in ages 15-22 |
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| Number of adults have an STD by 24 |
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| Active and persistent consideration of information or beliefs, questioning supposed facts |
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| Age reflective thinking develops |
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| Cortical regions can handle high level of thinking because |
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| They become fully myelinated |
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| ability to deal with uncertainty, inconsistency/contradiction, imperfection and compromis |
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| Postformal thought draws on |
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1.Intuition
2. Logic
3. Emotion |
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| practical intelligence, the inside information or know-how that is not formally taught |
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| Componential Intelligence |
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| practical intelligence, common sense |
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| Triarche Theory of Intelligence |
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Experiential Element
Contextual Element
Componential Element |
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| degree to which a person’s work requires thought and independent judgement |
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| : hypothesis that a positive correlation exits between intellectuality of work and of leisure activities because of a carryover of cognitive gains from work to leisure |
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| gradual, inevitable process of bodily deterioration that begins early in life and continues through the years, regardless of what people do to prevent it |
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| results for disease, abuse and disuse, often in a person's control |
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| measure of a persons ability to function effectively in their physical and social environmental compared to others in their same chronological age group |
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| the age to which a person born at a certain time is statistically likely to live to |
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| length of an indiviuals life |
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| the longest period that members of a species can live |
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| Two categories of biological aging |
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programming theories: people’s bodies age according to a normal developmental timetable built into the genes
One theory offers programmed senescene, where certain genes are programmed to “switch off” at a point |
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rate theories: theories that explain biological aging as a result of processes that vary from person to person and are influenced by both the internal and the external environment; sometimes called error theories
wear and tear theory |
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| curves plotted on graphs, showing percentages of a population that survive at each age level |
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| genetically controlled limit on the number of times a cell can divide in a species |
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| What causes the decrease in brain weight over age? |
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| Shrinking neuron size in cerebral cortex and loss of axons, dendrites and synapses |
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| How much weight does the average brain lose by 90? |
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