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| Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood |
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| Key Features of Emerging Adulthood |
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Identity Exploration
Instability
Self-Focused
Feeling in-Between
The age of possiblities
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| Markers to becoming an adult (in US) |
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Holding Full Time Job
Economic Independence
Taking responsibility for oneself
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| Marker for Adulthood in Developing Countries |
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True or False:
Today's College Students are less stressed and less depressed than in the past |
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| What are some physical developments in early adulthood? |
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Reaching peak performance (by age 30, usually between 19-26)
Muscle tone and strength usually begin to slow
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True or False?
Bad health habits emerge during adolescence and increase during early adulthood |
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True or False:
Heavy binge drinking increases in college |
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| How likely are binge drinking college students likely to fall behind in school? |
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| Drinking alcohol before going out is called? |
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Higher levels of alcohol abuse are linked to:
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Higher sexual risk taking
engaging in casual sex
sex without contraception
sexual assaults |
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| disorder that involves long-term, repeated, uncontrolled, compulsive, and excessive use of alcoholic beverages and that impairs the drinker's health and social relationships |
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| Reflective and Relativistic Thinking |
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become aware of the diverse opinions and multiple perspectives of others
important indicator of cognitive change in young adults
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| involves understanding that the correct answer to a problem requires reflective thinking and can vary from one situation to another and that the search for truth is often an ongoing never-ending process. |
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| What is considered to be the final cognitive stage? |
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| Age when the prefrontal cortex is said to be fully developed |
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| What is the 5th stage of development? |
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| most advanced cognitive process; characterized by the ability to consider a theseis and its antithesis simultaneously and thus to arrive at a synthesis |
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