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7.16: Early Adulthood Study Guide
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Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
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Define puberty. What kinds of changes occur during puberty?
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What impacts the timing of puberty?
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Describe the growth spurt.
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Discuss changes in the teenage brain (review your notes over the film.)
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Distinguish between primary and secondary sex characteristics and give examples of each.
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What is spermarche? Menarche?
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How do cultural ideals and timing impact adolescent body image?
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Describe some nutritional concerns during adolescence.
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What is anorexia? Bulimia?
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What is the myth of mutuality? Who is most likely to suffer from sexual abuse?
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Characterize teen drug use.
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What is formal operational intelligence?
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Define and give examples of adolescent egocentrism, the imaginary audience, the personal fable, and the invincibility fable.
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How does Erikson characterize adolescence?
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What is a psychosocial moratorium? What is foreclosure? Identity diffusion?
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Contrast teens as offenders and as victims of crime.
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Discuss teen suicide.
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What do teens want from parents?
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List the developmental tasks of early adulthood.
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Explain how emerging adulthood is a health but risky time.
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Explain Levinson’s theory of adulthood.
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What is postformal thought? What is dialectical thought? What factors promote this?
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Characterize cohabitation and types of cohabitation.
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What is the median age of first marriage?
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Explain social exchange theory of mate selection.
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What is the principle of least interest?
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Explain Sternberg’s dimensions of love.
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List and describe Lee’s love styles.
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Characterize frames of relationships.
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Explain the wheel theory of love.
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What is the “process of disaffection”? What happens in each stage?