HDF 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Crystallization, Academic Advising, Career Counseling

• School: URI
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDF 201
• Professor: Hans Saint- Eloi Cadely

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Hdf 201 - lecture 8 - early adulthood: developmental tasks 1. Individuals are at their best physical shape in their 20"s. Senescence - natural physical decline brought about by aging (feldman, 2015, p. 306) Secondary aging - decrease in physical abilities. Can be influenced by poor health decisions. Late maturers" height continues to increase in their 20"s. Women detect higher tones more readily than men (feldman, 2015, p. 306) Stressors that can be used for motivation. Graduating college, getting married, having a child. Creates too much strain - too much to deal with. Losing a job, losing a loved one, being in debt. Stress is derived through a set of stages that determine how a circumstance will be. Primary appraisal - how an event is perceived. Secondary appraisal - how to handle a situation. View stress as a challenge, not as a problem. How you thrive after a stressful situation.