PSYC 2314 Unit 3 Study Guide: Chapters 10, 11, & 13 || with Complete Solutions.
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What is emerging adulthood? correct answers This refers to the period when people aren't adolescents but not fully adults (late teens - mid 20's). It is the time of exploring careers, self-identity, and commitments.
What are rites of passage? correct answers A ritual that makes a person's "passa...
PSYC 2314 Unit 3 Study Guide: Chapters 10, 11, & 13 || with
Complete Solutions.
What is emerging adulthood? correct answers This refers to the period when people aren't
adolescents but not fully adults (late teens - mid 20's). It is the time of exploring careers, self-
identity, and commitments.
What are rites of passage? correct answers A ritual that makes a person's "passage" from one
status to another, usually in reference to the transition from childhood to adulthood. Many
cultures have these and they can last for hours or days.
Who practices rites of passage and who does not, why, and how? correct answers Few in
Western cultures, many cultures employ religious rituals. Non-western cultures practices change
little with time, and some involve pain or mutilation.
Role Transitions correct answers movement into the next stage of development marked by
assumption of new responsibilities and duties. Key Makers: voting, education, full-time
employment, leaving home, financial independence, marriage, becoming a parent
Risk taking behaviors correct answers A Drop in risky behavior due to prefrontal cortex
development
Edgework correct answers the desire to live life more fully on the edge through physically and
emotionally threatening situations on the boundary between life and death
What happens in emerging adulthood? correct answers During this time, they transition from
concern with identity to concerns with behaviors related to autonomy and intimacy. They
become independent from their parents which results in establishing a new kind of relationship
with their parents.
What is a Quarter-life crisis? correct answers The anxieties and challenges that emerge in trying
to find our place in society as adults. This happens to people in their 20's struggle to find their
way dealing with challenges financially, in the workplace, with politics, in networking, with time
management, and other daily hassles.
What percentage of U.S. high school graduates attend college? correct answers 70% go straight
to college but rates vary across income groups. High income 80%, Middle 60%, and Low 50%
What largely contributes to adult development? correct answers Major markers - joining the
workforce is a major step towards financial independence: living on their own accelerates this
achievement of adulthood - living with parents slows the process. Launching one's career and
reaching markers such as Erikson's stage of intimacy.
What is the task (stage) central to young adulthood according to Erikson? Are there gender
differences? correct answers Intimacy vs Isolation. A stronger identity is related to higher levels
, of intimacy. Men & Women handle it differently. Women resolve intimacy matters before
identity by marrying and raising children and only later dealing with the issue of their own
identity. Middle age women who go to college for the first time is an example of this form of
identity development.
Lifestyle factors correct answers Smoking is the biggest contributor to health problems. 60% of
women and 70% of men drink occasionally. American young adults rarely die from disease due
to overall health. Young adult men, 23-34 are nearly 2.5x as likely to die as women of the same
age. African American and young Latino males are 2-2.5x as likely to die as their European male
counterparts, but Asian and Pacific Islander young adult males are likely to die at about half of
the rate of their European male counterparts. 3 behaviors set the stage for health across the rest of
adulthood: smoking, alcohol use, and nutrition.
What is binge drinking and what detrimental behaviors are associated with it? correct answers
Drinking to excess, men 5 or more, women 4 or more drinks in about 2 hours. 17-23 age students
are more likely to binge drink. Female college students are more likely to exceed guidelines of
weekly alcohol intake than men. Men mature out of weekly binge drinking faster than college
women. Women metabolize it differently, so it takes less for them to get drunk which equal a
deterioration in judgement and behavior. It is an international problem. It increases the likelihood
of DWI, assault, date rape, school dropout, and death. It declines across the 20's - however in the
US 8% of adults 18-24 and 5% of those aged 25-44 are considered heavy drinkers and are likely
to develop alcohol use disorder.
What is addiction? correct answers Physical dependence on a drug which results in withdrawal
without the use of the drug
What is substance abuse? correct answers The continued use of a drug when it interferes with
work, school, and/or realtionships.
What is tolerance? correct answers When a person needs increasing amounts of a drug to feel the
same effect as before
What is withdrawal? correct answers The painful symptoms that occur without the use of a drug
What is dependence? correct answers Substance dependence is the medical term used to describe
abuse of drugs or alcohol that continues even when significant problems related the their use
have developed. A sign of dependence is tolerance to or need for increased amounts of the drug
to get an effect.
Post formal thought - define; what does it consist of? correct answers Thinking characterized by
recognizing that the correct answer varies from one situation to another, that solutions should be
realistic, that ambiguity and contradiction are typical, and that subjective factors play a role in
thinking. The recognition that truth (the correct answer) may vary from situation to situation,
solutions must be realistic and reasonable, ambiguity and contradiction are the rule rather than
the exception, and emotion and subjective factors usually play a role in thinking. The truth may
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