PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sub-Saharan Africa, Eval, Problem Solving
14 May 2018
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• Nov. 28, 2017
• Young Adulthood
• Changing perceptions: what is emerging adulthood:
• Changing cognitions
• Self-esteem rise during the emerging adults years
o Y-axis [well-being (self-esteem)] increase across x-axis (age)
o Consistently going up across men, women, ethnic groups due to more autonomy, less
changing in appearance (puberty), peer eval. goes down (you care less)
• "Emerging Adulthood" (2000) - Arnett: developmental period ~ 18 - 25 years (for many,
through 20s, a protracted period of development)
o From end of secondary school until full adult status
o Arnett's Features:
• Identify exploration: deciding what one wants; period of exploring different
options without constraints
• Instability: repeated resident changes, etc.
• Self-focus: free to decide what to do, where to go, etc.
• Feeling in-between: taking responsibility but still don't feel like an adult
• Possibilities: optimism reigns
o Arnett developed ideas on college students (money luxury of protracted
development)
• Phenomenon evident in particularly industrialized societies (hints in collective
[developmental] societies - slightly different)
• Example: Age of first marriage
▪ Early 1900's - most women married in their teens
▪ Present: Sub-Saharan Africa: avg. marriage = 21 years
• Western Europe = 31 years
• US = 27 years
• [Steeper in industrialized countries]
• Cognition in Young Adulthood
• Adult cognitions
o What happens after adolescence
o Theories of adult cognitive development
• Post formal period: changes in structure of through
• Information processes/expertise in specific domains
• Multiple forms of intelligence
• Postformal thought
o Adolescence
• Possibilities entertained
• Correct answers are sought; follow logic through to find correct answer
o Early to Middle adulthood
• Thinking focused on concrete situations (pragmatic)
• Accept that multiple answers exist
• Recognize complexity of lives, situations ,and thought's when solving problems
• Problem solving logic: ask 10 - 40 year olds about John, heavy drinker, who's
wife gives ultimatum
▪ No, she does’t leae hi
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