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

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:Chapter 10 Scanning the reasons for emerging adulthood *

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  1. BEGINNING THE ADULT JOURNEY Read:Chapter10Scanning the reasons for emerging adulthood* Life expectancy Education Varied paths and norms

  2. Pathway markers and events #1Exploring nest leaving and nest stayingNest leaving trends and factsNest staying advice

  3. Pathway Markers and Events #2Exploring the social clockOn timeOff time

  4. THE CHALLENGE: IDENTITY Identity statusesForeclosure diffusion

  5. Identity statuses contMoratorium Achievement

  6. Choosing a careerFLOW Choosing a career; succeeding at college (Flow)

  7. College Facts and RealitiesHow important is college to a secure economic life?How important is SES to graduating from school?

  8. 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

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

  10. Finding love 2: irrationality and unpredictability(see below)

  11. Finding Love 3: Adult Attachment styles

  12. Fun research facts about romance

  13. Take this and hand it in

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

  15. Love and marriage types: Sternberg’s triangular theorycharting the fall off in passion and intimacy

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

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

  18. Summing up (take this and hand in)

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

  20. Parenthood 2: motherhood fantasies and realities

  21. Why society is “out to get moms”

  22. MOMS ARE DOING MORE

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

  24. Doing more but not final responsibility cont

  25. Work 1: the landscape Historical changes: traditional stable vsboundarilyess careerssalaries and careersWomen’s vs(?) men’s work

  26. Work issuesRole conflict and role overloadUnemployment

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

  28. 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

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

  30. Intelligence 1: Aging and performance on traditional testsread chapter 12, intelligence sectionTwo types of intelligenceFluidcrystallized

  31. 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)

  32. 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?

  33. WHO GETS WISE (and mature) with age?

  34. Summing things Up: Constructing a fulfilling adult life

  35. ) For fun: Happiness facts

  36. 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

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

  38. HEARINGPROBS HEARING HIGH PITCHHair cells

  39. ELDERSPEAK

  40. RESPONDING TO THE WORLDREACTION TIMEOSTEOPOROSIS

  41. DRIVING: A BASIC CONCERN

  42. Summary and interventions

  43. SEX • MALE FEMALE

  44. Staying sexy with age

  45. WORST CASE SCENARIO: DEMENTIARisk factors and pathway (APOE)

  46. TypesVascular dementia= small strokesAlzheimers disease= Plaques and tangles

  47. INTERVENTIONS (Prevention?)

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