FRHD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Substance Abuse, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Addiction

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1010
• Professor: Susan Chuang

Document Summary

Biosocial development: prime time for hard physical work and successful reproduction. Delaying pregnancy: failure rates for contraceptives are high in shorter-acting methods and low or almost never fail in long acting ones, failure contraceptive rates higher in adolescents than emerging adults, increase in contraceptive use, decrease in birth rate. Take risks: risk taking is affected by gender, genes, hormones and culture. Risky sports: extreme sports: forms of recreation that include apparent risk of injury or death and are attractive and thrilling as a result. Postformal though: postformal thought: being more practical, more flexible and more dialectical, characterized by problem finding . Really a stage: some data concluded some adults don"t reach formal operational stage, formal and postformal thought more influenced by culture than maturation, social understanding continued to advance beyond early adulthood. Identity achieved: 5 arenas of identity: religion, sex roles, political, ethical and vocational.