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| interindividual veriability |
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| variability between individuals increases in adulthood as biology plays a less dominant role |
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three major periods of adulthood &
transition period from adolescence to adulthood or eMERGING ADULTHOOD |
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young adulthood 18-40
middle adulthood 40-65
later adulthood 65-75 (young old)
75-85 old old
85+ OLD OLD
18-25 |
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| chinese college kids vs us |
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| 59% of chinese consider themselves adults, compared with only 28% of US |
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| peak performance body changes in young adulthood |
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top height at 20's
top peak athletic performance 20's and 30's |
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| normal aging characterized by gradual age related processes of decline, lung tissues becomes less elastic, begin to lose strength in 20's and 30's |
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| refers to the automatic adjustments that the human body makes constantly to maintain equilibrium, like body temp |
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| leading cause of death in young adulthood |
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| unintentional injury, 70% are car accidents |
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| you stop drink in booze and smoking cigs, no fun |
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| leading cause of death worldwide |
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| cardiovascular disease begins to develop amon smokers, especially with elevated cholesterol high fat diets |
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| nearly all people have become sexually active by |
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| a hormone that is involved in nurturing behavior as well as sexual excitement and orgasms, particularly among women. we have more oxytocin circuits in our brains and they're located closer to our hurting circuits, so touching affection and expressions of emotional closeness are therefore more likely to stimulate sexual arousal in women, we also release it during orgasms. |
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| women are more likely than men to change their sexual origination overtime, alternating |
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| most frequently reported std |
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| chalmydia, half of all new cases are among peoples 15-24, f untreated can lead to infertility |
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| 18 percent of women have been raped, another 3 percent attempted, but its under reported |
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| 7% experience this, which is trying for more than a year |
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| injecting sperm from a donor into the women's uterus, results in pregnancy 75% of the time |
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| extracting eggs from the womea's ovaries, fertilizing them with sperm in a lab and allowing them to grow for 48 hours, and then transferring the most viable ones into the uterus, successful prigs 30-40% of the time |
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| a type of thinking that is relativistic, flexible, pragmatic, tolerant of ambiguities and contradictions and integrated with emotions |
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| cognitive affective complexity |
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| ability to integrate emotions and reasoning in decision making and planning |
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| the ability to monitor and regulate ones own cognitive processes becomes more advanced in young adulthood |
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| post conventional moral reasoning |
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| an advanced form of moral reasoning in which people rely less on external standards, such as parental standards and societal laws, to resolve moral dilemmas and instead come to rely on universal ethical principles and emerging personal moral code |
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