Early Adulthood

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Early Adulthood
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Cognitive Development

• Piagets Formal Operation stage
• Postformal thought
• Perrys theory-dualistic thinking-dividing
  information
• Relativistic thinking-not absolute truth but
  multiple truths

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Schaies theory

• Acquisitive stage (childhood and
  adolescence)-knowledge acquisition
• Achieving stage-(early adulthood)
• People must adapt their cognitive skills to
  situations that profound effect on long-term
  goals
• Focus on applying knowledge to everyday life

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• Physical Changes
• Change in lifestyle
• Stress
• Hypertension
• Heart disease
• Substance abuse
• Smoking
• Alcohol
• obesity
• Focus on exercise and diet for healthy lifestyle

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Immune system

• T cells-form in the born marrow and mature in the
  thymus and attack antigens
• The immune system increases during adolescence
  and decreases after 20 years of age

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Reproduction

• Increase of first births in women in 30s
• Age affects male reproductive capacity especially
  after 40

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Selecting a vocation

• Fantasy period
• Tentative period
• Realistic period
• Gender stereotypes-table 13.2

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Emotional Development

• Table 14.1
• Intimacy vs. isolation
• Careers
• Intimacy
• Age 30 transition
• Social clock
• Mate selection

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More Emotional Development

• Friendships
• Leaving home
• Starting families
• Parenthood
• Divorce
• Childlessness
• Establishing a career