Developmental Psychology - Young Adulthood Part 3
This deck covers key concepts in developmental psychology focusing on young adulthood, including identity, love, personality traits, and relationship dynamics.
41 self-conscious crisis that ideally leads to a resolution and identity achievement status
Key Terms
theoretical approaches that hold that adults follow a basic sequence of age-related psychosocial changes
o Normative-Stage Models
– a mutual devotion between partners who have chosen to share their lives and have children
o Love
tendency to become intimate too freely, too easily
o Maladaptive Tendency: Promiscuity
tendency to isolate oneself from everyone
o Malignant Tendency: Exclusion
holds that the course of development depends on when certain events occur in people’s lives
o Timing-of-Events Model –
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
41 self-conscious crisis that ideally leads to a resolution and identity achievement status | o Moratorium |
theoretical approaches that hold that adults follow a basic sequence of age-related psychosocial changes | o Normative-Stage Models |
– a mutual devotion between partners who have chosen to share their lives and have children | o Love |
tendency to become intimate too freely, too easily | o Maladaptive Tendency: Promiscuity |
tendency to isolate oneself from everyone | o Malignant Tendency: Exclusion |
holds that the course of development depends on when certain events occur in people’s lives | o Timing-of-Events Model – |
those typically happen at certain times of life | o Normative Life Events (Normative Age-Graded Events) |
society’s norms for appropriate timing of life events | o Social Clock |
– psychological models that focus on the measurement and examination of different traits | o Trait Models |
– Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism | o McCrae’s Five-Factor Model |
seeks to complement and expand trait research by looking at personality functioning whole | o Typological Approach |
well-adjusted, self-confident, articulate, attentive, helpful, Cooperative, task-focused | o Ego-Resilient |
shy, quiet, anxious, dependable, tend to keep thoughts to themselves and withdraw from conflict, subject to depression | o Overcontrolled |
active, energetic, impulsive, stubborn, and easily distracted | o Undercontrolled |
o Three Attachment Styles | Secure – have positive views in relationships, find it easy to get close to others, and are not overly concerned about romantic relationships Avoidant – hesitant about getting involved in romantic relationships and once they do, they distance themselves to their partners Anxious – demand closeness, less trusting, more emotional, jealous, and possessive |
– treated as family members despite a lack of blood relationship | o Fictive Kin |
the way love develops is a story. The loves are its authors, and the story they create reflects their personalities and their conceptions of love. | o Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love |
o Three elements of love | a. Intimacy – emotional element, involves self-disclosure, which leads to connection, warmth, and trust b. Passion – motivational element, based on inner drives that translate physiological arousal into sexual desire c. Commitment – cognitive element, the decision to love and make the relationship work (exclusive or marry) |
No intimacy, passion, nor commitment Casual Interactions e.g., friends, acquaintances | Nonlove |
Intimacy present There is closeness, understanding, emotional support, affection, bondedness, and warmth e.g., ka-talking stage mo na ayaw makipag-meet up at walang label | Liking |
Passion present Strong physical attraction e.g., crushes, someone na naka-salubong mo sa kanto tapos crush mo agad | Infatuation |
Commitment only Found in long-term relationship that have lost both intimacy and passion e.g., arranged marriage (justin-hailey charot) | Empty Love |
Intimacy and Commitment present Long-term, committed friendship, no physical attraction e.g., Couple with no sex life charot, BESTIEEEEES | Companionate Love |
Passion and Commitment only Couple makes commitment without allowing themselves to develop intimacy e.g., Fuck Buddies | Fatuous Love |
Consummate Love | All three components completed e.g., SANA ALL |
relationships of friendships blended with physical intimacy, but little commitment | o Friends With Benefits |
– unmarried couple involved in sexual relationship live together | o Cohabitation |