DEP1004 Chapter 10 terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 role transitions | Assuming new responsibilities and duties. |
| rites of passage | rituals marking initiation into adulthood, done differently in each culture. |
| returning adult students | students over the age of 25 |
| intimacy versus isolation | sixth step in Erikson's theory of psycho social development... the conflict for young adults |
| thresholders | people between 18 and 25, no longer adolescent but not yet full-fledged adults. |
| role transitions | the most widely used criteria for deciding whether a person has reached adulthood |
| reckless behavior | behaviourally, a major difference between adolescence and adulthood is a significant drop in the frequency of__________ |
| multidimensional | intelligence theories that identify several types of intellectual abilities. |
| multidirectionality | where some aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects decline during adulthood. |
| interindividual variability | patterns of change in intelligence in adults during adulthood vary from one person to another. |
| plasticity | peoples abilities are not fixed but can be modified under the right conditions at just about any point in adulthood. |
| primary mental abilities | hypothetical constructs that represent groups of related skills (such as memory or spatial ability) including number, word fluency, verbal meaning, inductive reasoning, spatial orientation. |
| number | ability based on basic skills underlying our mathematical reasoning |
| Word fluency | ability based on how easily we produce verbal descriptions of things |
| verbal meaning | our vocabulary ability |
| inductive reasoning | our ability to extrapolate from particular facts to general concepts |
| spatial orientation | our ability to reason in the three-dimensional world in which we live. |
| secondary mental abilities | broader skills that subsume and organize the primary abilities. for example fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence. |
| fluid intelligence | the abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker, that allow you to make inferences, and that enable you to understand the relations among concepts, such as inductive reasoning, integration, and abstract thinking. |
| crystallized intelligence | the knowledge you have acquired through life experience and education in a particular culture.. |
| postformal thought | qualitative change of thinking beyond Piaget's formal operations, beginning in young adulthood. Characterized by a recognition that: truth varies, need realistic solutions, ambiguity is the rule, subjectivity exists. |
| reflective judgment | a way in which adults reason through dilemmas involving current affairs, religion, science, personal relationships etc. |
| optimal level of development | the highest level of information -processing capacity that a person is capable of doing. |
| skill acquisition | the gradual, somewhat haphazard process by which people learn new abilities. |
| stereotypes | social knowledge structure or belief that represents organized prior knowledge about a group of people that affects how we interpret new information. |
| implicit stereotyping | Automatic and nonconscious activation of strong stereotypes that influences on our behaviour |
| stereotype threat | an evoked fear of being judged in accordance with negative stereotype about a group to which you belong. |
| implicit social beliefs | emotionally laden values that can be evoked and influence behavior. Understanding their content, strength and likelihood is important in understanding age differences. |
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