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Developmental Psychology - Young Adulthood Part 2
This deck covers key concepts in developmental psychology, focusing on stages of adulthood, types of intelligence, and educational and career transitions.
Responsible for societal systems or social movements
Executive Stage (30s or 40s through middle age)
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Term
Definition
Responsible for societal systems or social movements
Executive Stage (30s or 40s through middle age)
Enter retirement reorganize their lives and intellectual energies around meaningful pursuits that take place of paid work
Reorganizational Stage (end of middle age, beginning of late adulthood)
Focus on the purpose of what they do and concentrate on tasks that have most meaning for them
Reintegrative Stage (Late Adulthood)
Older people may create instructions for the disposition of prized possessions, make funeral arrangements, provide oral histories, or write their life stories as legacy for their loved ones
Legacy-Creating Stage (advanced old age)
analytical abilities
o Componential Knowledge
original thinking, experience-based
o Experiential Intelligence –
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Responsible for societal systems or social movements | Executive Stage (30s or 40s through middle age) |
Enter retirement reorganize their lives and intellectual energies around meaningful pursuits that take place of paid work | Reorganizational Stage (end of middle age, beginning of late adulthood) |
Focus on the purpose of what they do and concentrate on tasks that have most meaning for them | Reintegrative Stage (Late Adulthood) |
Older people may create instructions for the disposition of prized possessions, make funeral arrangements, provide oral histories, or write their life stories as legacy for their loved ones | Legacy-Creating Stage (advanced old age) |
analytical abilities | o Componential Knowledge |
original thinking, experience-based | o Experiential Intelligence – |
knowing your way around | o Contextual Intelligence |
– inside information, know-how, “hacks”, not formally taught or openly expressed; commonsense knowledge of how to get ahead • Includes self-management, management of tasks, and management of others | o Tacit Knowledge |
refers to four related skills: the abilities to perceive, use, understand, and manage or regulate emotions to achieve goals (Salovey & Mayer, 1990 | o Emotional Intelligence |
o In Kohlberg’s Postconventional Morality, people became more capable of fully principled moral reasoning, and that they made moral decisions on the basis of universal principles of justice o Culture affects the understanding of morality | Moral Reasoning |
taking a year off from formal education or the workplace | o Gap Year |
– courses are delivered via mail, internet, or other technological means | o Distance Learning |
– students decide for themselves, ideally, what they want to believe | o Commitment within Relativism |
– the degree of thought and independent judgement it requires – and a person’s flexibility in coping with cognitive demands | o Substantive Complexity |
cognitive gains from work carry over to nonworking hours | o Spillover Hypothesis |
time out from developmental pressures and allow young people the freedom to experiment various roles and lifestyles | o Emerging adulthood offers Moratorium |
name for the process that underlies the shift to an adult identity | o Recentering |
Individual is still embedded in the family of origin, but expectations for self-reliance and self-directedness begin to increase | Stage 1: Beginning |
Individual remains connected to but no longer embedded within the family of origin | Stage 2: During |
Marked independence from the family of origin and commitment to a career, a partner, and possibly children | Stage 3: Usually by Age 30 |