FRHD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Substance Abuse, Stereotype Threat, Overchoice

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

Document Summary

Emerging adulthood: body, mind and social world (age 18-25) Some serious diseases are not yet present but childhood ailments have subsided. Cognitive development: post-formal thought a proposed adult stage of cognitive development following. This is extending to asia and africa as well, where many new post secondary options are being opened: the more years of higher education a person pursues, the deeper and more post formal the person"s reasoning becomes. Most professors have found that social interaction and intellectual challenge advances thinking: university is more diverse, especially with gender. 56% of women in canada now get a university education. Ethnic, racial, economic and religious diversity are also evident and these differences help to challenge thinking and new perspectives. Intimacy progresses from attraction to close connection to commitment: in about 1/3 of marriages, they are arranged by parents. In another 1/3 of families, adolescents meet only a select group, the male must ask the female"s father for.