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BEGINNING THE ADULT JOURNEY Read:Chapter 10 Scanning the reasons for emerging adulthood * . Life expectancy Education Varied paths and norms. Pathway markers and events #1 Exploring nest leaving and nest staying Nest leaving trends and facts Nest staying advice .
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BEGINNING THE ADULT JOURNEY Read:Chapter10Scanning the reasons for emerging adulthood* Life expectancy Education Varied paths and norms
Pathway markers and events #1Exploring nest leaving and nest stayingNest leaving trends and factsNest staying advice
Pathway Markers and Events #2Exploring the social clockOn timeOff time
THE CHALLENGE: IDENTITY Identity statusesForeclosure diffusion
Choosing a careerFLOW Choosing a career; succeeding at college (Flow)
College Facts and RealitiesHow important is college to a secure economic life?How important is SES to graduating from school?
Making it in college • Be financially literate before you enroll • Connect with faculty (and see them regularly!) • Get involved in campus life (to find your flow) • Volunteer if possible (to find your flow) COLLEGE IS A TIME FOR PERSONAL GROWTH
Finding love #1The pathway to commitment Murstein’s stimulus, value, role theory homogamy Selecting an ideal selfWh When you should be diff
Finding love 2: irrationality and unpredictability(see below)
LOVE AND MARRIAGE CONT (chapter 11-section on marriage)U shaped curve of satisfactionEmpty nestWhy late life marriage (can be) the best
Love and marriage types: Sternberg’s triangular theorycharting the fall off in passion and intimacy
Keeping passion and intimacy aliveDo exciting things togethercommitment and sacrifice
Marital communication stylesDemand withdrawal+ to – communicationsDON’T GET PERSONAL!!
PARENTHOOD 1 : transition to parenthoodreadings:parenthood section ch 11Why things (can) change for the worseWho copes best
Fatherhood activities and rolesFun guy; play guyDoing more but not final responsibility
Work 1: the landscape Historical changes: traditional stable vsboundarilyess careerssalaries and careersWomen’s vs(?) men’s work
Work happinessFit career to personalityFind a workplace that offers autonomy and creativity
Personalityread: section on personality ch 12 How we probably don’t change (the big five) New research: openness to experience=key to a fulfilling life
Generativity: the key to a fulfilling adult lifeChanges in generative prioritiesWho are the highly generative adults?(redemption sequence)
Intelligence 1: Aging and performance on traditional testsread chapter 12, intelligence sectionTwo types of intelligenceFluidcrystallized
WHEN WE ARE AT OUR INTELLECTUAL PEAKmidlife but it varies depending on the mix or fluid and crystallized skills (see left) The role of basic ability (see below)
Being adult smartPOSTFORMAL THOUGHTlooks at multiple perspectivesinterested in finding questions (open to experience]Knows there are no right answersDo we really get wise with age?
) For fun: Happiness facts
AGING AND OLD AGE IMPAIRMENTS Read: Chapter 14 beginning to Options and Services for the Frail elderly;see also chapter 12 pp. 383-85 for sex) Normal aging-chronic disease-ADLS-- death Poor: aging faster dying earlier female: living longer more frail
VISIONCLOSE UP PROBS (presbyopia)POOR DARK VISIONGLARELens=everything time)
SEX • MALE FEMALE
WORST CASE SCENARIO: DEMENTIARisk factors and pathway (APOE)
TypesVascular dementia= small strokesAlzheimers disease= Plaques and tangles