FAD3220 CH 7 Exam Questions with
correct Answers
Early adulthood - Answer -The period from approximately age 20 to 40
A time of continued development
"emerging adulthood"
Physical changes and challenges - Answer -most people have attained their full height,
limbs proportional to their size, rendering the manliness of adolescence a memory
People in their early 20s tend to be healthy, vigorous, and energetic
senscence - Answer -The natural physical decline brought about by aging, has begun.
Age related changes are not usually obvious until later in life
secondary aging - Answer -Physical declines brought about by environmental factors or
behavioral choices
lifestyle decisions, such as the use - or abuse - of alcohol, tobacco, or drugs, or
engaging in unprotected sex
stress - Answer -The physical and emotional response to events that threaten or
challenges us
Trying to fight off stress can have formidable costs
Headaches, backaches, skin rashes, indigestion, chronic fatigue, and even the common
cold are all stress related illnesses
The immune system - the organs, glands, and cells that are the body like fo defense
again disease - may be damaged by stress
Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) - Answer -the study of the relationship among the brain,
the immune system, and psychological factors
primary appraisal - Answer -"What is stressing me out?"
, The assessment of an event to determine whether its implications are positive,
negative, or neutral
secondary appraisal - Answer -"Can I handle it?"
The assessment of whether one's coping abilities and resources are adequate to
overcome the harm, threat, or challenge posed buy the potential stressor
coping - Answer -The effort to control, reduce, or learn to tolerate the threats that lead to
stress
Problem - focused coping -
managing a threatening situation bu directly changing it to make it less stressful
Emotion - focused coping -
The conscious regulation of emotion
Also aided by social support Assistance and comfort supplied by others
defensive coping - Answer -Coping that involves unconscious strategies that distort or
dent the true nature of a situation
Emotional insulation People unconsciously try to block emotions and thereby avoid pain
intellectual growth - Answer -Developing the ability to reason and form complex thought
patterns
Piaget believed that by the time people left adolescence, their thinking had largely
become what it would be for the rest of their lives
HE WAS WRONG!
postfromal thought - Answer -Thinking that acknowledges that adult predicaments must
sometimes be solved in relativistic terms
This goes beyond Piaget's formal operations
Perry's approach - Answer -Interviewed students at Harvard university. Found that
students entering college tended to use 'Dualistic Thinking' in their views of the world
Something was either right or wrong, people were either good or bad, you are either
with me or against me
as the students interacted with one another the dualistic thinking starred declining.
Students began to realize that there is more than one side
Their attitudes changed as well. Instead of believing that the experts had all the
answers, they realized that their opinion had validity
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