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Life Span Development
Exam 3 Review Sheet
Exam covers chapters 14-19: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood.
Understand the biology about puberty especially as laid out in figure 14.1 in the text. Know the related terms and functions:
hypothalamus, pituitary. Adrenal glands, HPA axis, GnHR, gonads, estrogen, testosterone, menarch and spermarche.
Primary sexual characteristics-Ovaries, testes
Secondary sexual characteristics-Pubic hair, breasts, etc.
When does puberty start and what effects when the timing of puberty? Between the ages of 8-14
What effect does stress have on the timing of puberty? It makes it arrive more quickly.
Does the timing of puberty matter? On their psychological well being, it does matter.
Formal operational thought-The final stage of cognitive development, arises from maturation and experinece
How does the ability to think abstractly change in adolescence? (understand hypothetical thought)-Thoughts that include hypothesis that may or not reflect reality, abstract thoughts
Sexual identity-Person identifying as either male or female
What is meant by adolescent egocentrism? Know related concepts invincibility fable and imaginary audience.
Characteristic of adolescent thinking that sometimes leas young people to focus on themselves to the exclusion of others and to believe, for example, that their thoughts, feelings, and experiences are unique.
Invincibility fable: Teenager’s false believe that he cannot be harmed or conquered by anything, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex
Imaginary audience: A teenager’s false belief that others are intensely interested in his behavior or appearance
Intuitive thought
Analytic thought
Identity (and four aspects of it laid out by Erikson)
Identity vs. diffusion
Identity achievement (and other identity statuses: identity diffusion, foreclosure and moratorium)
How do relationships with their parents change during adolescence? What is the importance of parental monitoring?
How do peers influence the behavior of adolescence? Know related terms: peer facilitation, deviancy training, peer selection and peer pressure.
Know some facts about teen sexual behavior: rates of sexual intercourse in high school years, trend in teen births, effects of abstinence only education vs. a Texas program that covered abstinence and safe sex (p. 431), what is role of parents in effecting teen sexual behavior?
What about brain development in adolescence leave them drawn to intense experiences such as drug use?
How have the rates of drug use changed over the past 25 years?
Senescence
Homeostatis
Organ reserve
How do the rates of drugs addiction and abuse change in adulthood (see p. 463).
What are Erikson’s stages are covered during adolescence and emerging adulthood? Know crises at play during each stage.
How do we make friends according to Fehr, 1996? (p.504)
Understand that risk taking is more common in emerging adulthood.
Cohabitation
Social exchange theory
Dialectical thought (thesis, antithesis, and synthesis)
According to research covered in your text, during what time of life are both men and women most attractive?
According to lecture, why does emerging adulthood exist in developed countries but not undeveloped countries?
Evolutionary psychology
What is the Coolidge effect?-Men are more excited by new sexual partners
How does men’s sexual behavior differ from female’s?
What do men look for in a mate? What do women look for in a mate? Men look for physical
attractiveness (health), women look for security
What is the explanation for these gender differences according to evolutionary psychology?
Recall that this doesn’t excuse behavior, and rather can help us better change behavior. For example, to remind men that they have a lower threshold for inferring sexual intent from a woman’s smile and thus they can reduce unwanted sexual advances they make toward women.
Exam 3 Review Sheet
Exam covers chapters 14-19: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood.
Understand the biology about puberty especially as laid out in figure 14.1 in the text. Know the related terms and functions:
hypothalamus, pituitary. Adrenal glands, HPA axis, GnHR, gonads, estrogen, testosterone, menarch and spermarche.
Primary sexual characteristics-Ovaries, testes
Secondary sexual characteristics-Pubic hair, breasts, etc.
When does puberty start and what effects when the timing of puberty? Between the ages of 8-14
What effect does stress have on the timing of puberty? It makes it arrive more quickly.
Does the timing of puberty matter? On their psychological well being, it does matter.
Formal operational thought-The final stage of cognitive development, arises from maturation and experinece
How does the ability to think abstractly change in adolescence? (understand hypothetical thought)-Thoughts that include hypothesis that may or not reflect reality, abstract thoughts
Sexual identity-Person identifying as either male or female
What is meant by adolescent egocentrism? Know related concepts invincibility fable and imaginary audience.
Characteristic of adolescent thinking that sometimes leas young people to focus on themselves to the exclusion of others and to believe, for example, that their thoughts, feelings, and experiences are unique.
Invincibility fable: Teenager’s false believe that he cannot be harmed or conquered by anything, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex
Imaginary audience: A teenager’s false belief that others are intensely interested in his behavior or appearance
Intuitive thought
Analytic thought
Identity (and four aspects of it laid out by Erikson)
Identity vs. diffusion
Identity achievement (and other identity statuses: identity diffusion, foreclosure and moratorium)
How do relationships with their parents change during adolescence? What is the importance of parental monitoring?
How do peers influence the behavior of adolescence? Know related terms: peer facilitation, deviancy training, peer selection and peer pressure.
Know some facts about teen sexual behavior: rates of sexual intercourse in high school years, trend in teen births, effects of abstinence only education vs. a Texas program that covered abstinence and safe sex (p. 431), what is role of parents in effecting teen sexual behavior?
What about brain development in adolescence leave them drawn to intense experiences such as drug use?
How have the rates of drug use changed over the past 25 years?
Senescence
Homeostatis
Organ reserve
How do the rates of drugs addiction and abuse change in adulthood (see p. 463).
What are Erikson’s stages are covered during adolescence and emerging adulthood? Know crises at play during each stage.
How do we make friends according to Fehr, 1996? (p.504)
Understand that risk taking is more common in emerging adulthood.
Cohabitation
Social exchange theory
Dialectical thought (thesis, antithesis, and synthesis)
According to research covered in your text, during what time of life are both men and women most attractive?
According to lecture, why does emerging adulthood exist in developed countries but not undeveloped countries?
Evolutionary psychology
What is the Coolidge effect?-Men are more excited by new sexual partners
How does men’s sexual behavior differ from female’s?
What do men look for in a mate? What do women look for in a mate? Men look for physical
attractiveness (health), women look for security
What is the explanation for these gender differences according to evolutionary psychology?
Recall that this doesn’t excuse behavior, and rather can help us better change behavior. For example, to remind men that they have a lower threshold for inferring sexual intent from a woman’s smile and thus they can reduce unwanted sexual advances they make toward women.