PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Homicide, Casual Sex, Binge Drinking
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Physical development: physical performance and development, peak physical performance typically occurs between 19 and 26, muscle tone and strength usually being to show signs of decline around age 30. Health: emerging adults have twice the mortality rate of adolescent, few chronic health problems, increase in bad health habits, positive health behavior equals positive life satisfaction. 10/21/2016: cigarette smoking and nicotine, smoking linked to cancer deaths, heart disease deaths, and chronic pulmonary disease deaths. Stis: sexually transmitted infections (stis): diseases contracted primarily through sex, effective strategies for protecting against hiv, know your risk status and that of your partner, obtain medical exams, have protected sex, do not have sex with multiple partners. 10/21/2016: postformal thought, re ective, relativistic, contextual, provisional, realistic, recognized as being in uenced by emotion. Creativity: qualifying any conclusion about age and creative accomplishments are, magnitude of the decline in productivity, contrasts across creative domains, individual differences in lifetime output.
