FRHD 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Overchoice, Substance Abuse

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

Document Summary

Drug abuse: the ingestion of a drug to the extent that it impairs the user"s biological or psychological well-being. Postformal thought: a proposed adult stage of cognitive development, following. Postformal thought goes beyond adolescent thinking by being more practical, flexible and dialectical (i. e. more capable of combing contradictory elements into a comprehensive whole) Stereotype threat: the possibility that one"s appearance or behaviour will be misread to confirm another person"s oversimplified, prejudiced attitudes. Intimacy vs. isolation: the sixth of erikson"s eight stages of development. Choice overload: having so many options that a thoughtful choice becomes difficult, and regret after making a choice is more likely. Cohabitation: an arrangement in which two people live together in a committed romantic relationship but are not formally married. Linked lives: lives in which the success, health, and well-being of each family member are connected to those of other members, including members of another generation, as in the relationship between parents and children.