Adulthood and Aging

Social Clock:

Emerging Adulthood:

Stages of Adulthood Early Adulthood Middle Adulthood Late Adulthood

Menopause:

Vision:

Physical Changes in Adulthood Hearing: Smell:

Alzheimer's

Diseases Related to Aging

Senile Dementia

Aging and Memory:

Fluid Intelligence:

Crystallized Intelligence:

Intelligence

Social Changes
Erikson and Generativity:

Work:

Love:

Commitment

Marriage:

Children:

Empty Nest:

Overall Life Satisfaction:

Ageism:

Death and Dying

Reactions to Death: Stages of Death and Dying: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Nature and Nurture of Gender

X Chromosone Found in both _______ and _____________ Females have _____; males have ______ An X Chromosone from each parents produces a __________ child

Y Chromosone Found only in _______ When paired with an X Chromosone, produces a ________ child

Testosterone Most important of the male _______________ Both _______ and ___________ have it Additional testosterone stimulates growth of male _____ ___________ and developments of male ___________________

Role:

Gender Role: Gender Identity: Gender-typing:

Social Learning Theory theory that we learn _________________ by observing and imitating and by being ____________ or ____________

Gender Schema Theory theory that children learn from their ____________ a concept of what it means to be _______ and _________ and that they _____________________ _____________________

Nature Argument:

Nurture Argument:

Study Best et al (1994) Pontius (1997) Roscoe (1998) Sugihara and Katsurada (1999)

Challenging Western Assumptions of Gender Role Challenges

Sex-Role Stereotyping:

Parental Role and the Effect on Gender:

Interactionist Approach:

Personality
Personality:

Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality (Sigmund Freud he is back!) Believed that people are driven to seek _________ (_____) and avoid ________ (________________) Three Levels of Awareness o Conscious: o Preconscious:

o Unconscious: Three Part Personality Structure o Id: o Ego:

o Superego:

Neo-Freudian Theories of Personality: agree with many of Freuds basic ideas, but they differ in one or more important ways Carl Jung: Collective Unconscious Two main personality attitudes: __________________ and ___________________ Four styles of gathering information o Sensing: o Intuiting:

o Thinking: o Feeling:

These are the basis for the ____________________________________________

Karen Horney and The Need for Security Focused on dealing with our need for _______________ If security is not achieved then three neurotic personality patterns could develop o Moving toward people: o Moving against people:

o Moving away from people:

Humanistic Approach to Personality Maslow: _____________ of the ____________________________ o Humanists emphasize _____________________________________ in ones actions, the ____________________ of the individual person, and _________________ o Self-Actualization:

Rogers Self Theory o Carl Rogers dealt with college students with ________________________________ Believed that people need ______________________: to be _____________________ and have the ______________________ of others Our parents set up ______________________________: behaviours and attitudes which give us positive regard __________________________________: acceptance and approval without ______________

Personality Assessment Personality Inventories:

Projective Tests:

o Rorschach Inkblots Test:

o Thematic Apperception Tests:

Rotters Locus of Control Locus of control is a persons ___________________ of the extent to which he/she _______________ what happens to him/her o External locus of control refers to the perception that _________________ or ____________________ beyond your control determine your fate May contribute to _____________________________ (a sense of hopelessness in which one thinks that he/she is unable to __________________________________________) o Internal locus of control refers to the perception that ________________________________________________________ People with an internal locus of control are _________________________ and __________________ better off