PSY 1102 Study Guide - Dementia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Psy 1102 developing through the life span part 3 1 hour 20 min 50 m/c. Everything we"ve covered; intro and chapter 4 and chapter 5. Although teens become independent of their parents as they grow older, they nevertheless relate to their parents on a number of things, including religiosity and career choices. Peer approval and relationships are also very important. More like peers in terms of the way they dress, the way they talk. Frontal lobe not as well developed; more emotional more irrational, not the big storm or turmoil". During this time, young adults may live with their parents and attend college or work. On average, emerging adults marry in their mid-twenties. Risky behaviours peak; sex, reckless driving, drugs, dui. Although adulthood begins sometime after a person"s mid-twenties, defining adulthood into stages is more difficult than defining the stages of childhood or adolescence.