PSYC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stranger Danger, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
6 Feb 2017
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Responsiveness: us=responses to signals; japan = preemptive. Gender roles (cultural): behaviors or appearances associated with being male or female (bio, social, cognitive) Gender schemes (personal): generalizations about what is appropriate for boys and girls. If you were buying clothes for your child, what would inform your decision: color, how people perceive their child. Before the 1940s, reguardless of color, in both cases, boys and girls wore dresses. As we get older, expectations will change part of a marketing tool. Identity crisis: develop integrated self-image: choosing career. Adult thought is more complex and adaptive than adolescents. Abilities involvong intensive info processes decline in early adulthood. Abilities involving accumulating knowledge and experience improve until at least age 60. Terminal drop: decline in mental functioning near death. Crystallized intelligence o(cid:374)e"s a(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulated k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge a(cid:374)d (cid:448)er(cid:271)al skills, e(cid:454)perience with the world. Fluid intelligence o(cid:374)e"s a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to reaso(cid:374) speedil(cid:455) a(cid:374)d a(cid:271)stra(cid:272)tl(cid:455), pro(cid:272)essi(cid:374)g speed, a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to appl(cid:455) thi(cid:374)gs to situations: tends to decrease during late adulthood.
