PSYC 3505 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Time, G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence
PSYC 3505
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Lecture #1
New Lifestage Discovered: Emerging Adults
• Age 18-30
• Young adults who are in limbo between adult responsibility, autonomy,
& parental dependency
o Have job, still receiving money from parents
o Ueployed after ollege, liig at hoe, tryig to fid allig
o Teporary jos hile figurig it out
Who decides when an adult is an adult?
• 18 = vote
• 21 = drink legally
• 25 = brain considered mature (NIMH); rent a car
• 26-28 = median age of marriage
• 26-0 = last years of eig o paret’s health isurae
Who do we define this phase of life?
• Young adult (1950s)
o Age: 20-40
o A stage of human development, faced with the hurdle of
intimacy vs. isolation
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• Youth (late 1960s)
o Age: Post-Adolescent
o Characterized by pervasive ambivalence toward self and society,
and enormous value place on change, transformation,
movement
• Emerging Adult (2000s)
o Age: 18-30
o Young adults who are in limbo between adult responsibility,
autonomy & parental dependency
“ciece “upports Eergig Adulthood Defiitio
• The brain keeps changing up until 25
• From 18 – 25 the most significant changes happen in the prefrontal
cortex (emotional control) & cerebellum (higher order cognitive
function)
• Weighing of the future keeps changing into the 20s & 30s
Why should marketers care?
• Most people are accumulating formal education, meeting future
spouses, making lasting friends, starting lasting careers
• Adventures, experiments, travels, relationships
• Decisions & actions have lasting ramifications
o Oe this geeratio eters their 0s they’ll e the highest
consumer spending index category
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Document Summary
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