BEGINNING THE ADULT JOURNEY Read:Chapter 10 Scanning the reasons for emerging adulthood

1. BEGINNING THE ADULT JOURNEY Read:Chapter 10 Scanning the reasons for emerging adulthood   *      Life expectancy Education Varied paths and norms

2. Pathway Markers and EventsNest LeavingSocial clockOn timeOff time

3. THE CHALLENGE: IDENTITY Identity statuses Foreclosure diffusion

4. Identity statuses contMoratorium Achievement

5. Choosing a careerFLOW

6. Making it in college Connect w faculty Don’t work full time Get involved in campus life (to find your flow) Volunteer if possible (to find your flow)

7.  Finding love 1The pathway to commitment Murstein’s stimulus, value, role theory  homogamy  Selecting an ideal self Wh When you should be diff

8. Finding love 2: irrationality and unpredictability (see below) event driven relationships

9. Finding Love 3: Adult Attachment styles

10. Evaluating your relationship

11. LOVE AND MARRIAGE CONT (chapter 11-section on marriage)Ushaped curve of satisfactionEmpty nestWhy late life marriage (can be) the best

12. Love and marriage types: Sternberg’s triangular theory (see below)charting the fall off in passion and intimacy

13. Keeping passion and intimacy aliveDo exciting things togethercommitment and sacrifice

14. Marital communication stylesDemand withdrawal+ to – communicationsDON’T GET PERSONAL!!

15. Summing up

16. PARENTHOOD 1 : transition to parenthoodreadings:parenthood section ch 11Why things (can) change for the worseWho copes best

17. Parenthood 2: motherhood fantasies and realities

18. Why society is “out to get moms”

19. Fatherhood activities and rolesFun guy; play guyDoing more but not final responsibility

20. Work 1: The contextchanges: traditional stable vs boundarilyess careersNew info on salaries and careers

21. Work issuesRole conflict and role overloadUnemployment

22. Work happinessFit career to personalityFind a workplace that offers autonomy and creativity

23. 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

24. Generativity: the key to a fulfilling adult lifeChanges in generative prioritiesWho are the highly generative adults? (redemption sequence)

25. Intelligence 1: Aging and performance on traditional testsread chapter 12, intelligence sectionTwo types of intelligenceFluid crystallized

26.  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)

27. POSTFORMAL THOUGHTlooks at multiple perspectivesinterested in finding questions (open to experience]Knows there are no right answersDo we really get wise with age?Who gets wise with age?

28. Summing things Up: Constructing a fulfilling adult life

29. For fun: Happiness facts

30. 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

31.  VISIONCLOSE UP PROBS (presbyopia)POOR DARK VISIONGLARELens=everything  time)

32. HEARINGPROBS HEARING HIGH PITCHHair cells

33. ELDERSPEAK

34. RESPONDING TO THE WORLDREACTION TIMEOSTEOPOROSIS

35. DRIVING: A BASIC CONCERN

36. Summary and interventions

37. SEX MALE FEMALE

38. Staying sexy with age

39. DEMENTIA

40. Types/risk factors/prevention ??Alzheimers= plaques and tanglesVascular= small strokesAPOE

41. INTERVENTIONS