Risk factors associated with stress

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Risk factors associated with stress

• Life events, negative and positive
• Holmes and Rahe studies
• Cumulative stress related to illness
• Entrance events (young adults most prone)
• Acculturative stress
• Daily hassles
• Poverty means more daily hassles

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Postformal Thought

• Adult thinking and adolescent thinking differ in
  3 ways, with adult thinking more
• practical
• flexible
• Dialectical
• Post-modernism

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Globalization and Identity

• Jeffrey Arnett
• Bicultural identities
• Identity confusion
• Self-selected cultures
• The spread of emerging adulthood

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Two Clusters Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence

• Fluid Intelligence
• flexible reasoning used to draw inferences,
  understand relations between concepts, and
  speedily process new ideas
• person with this intelligence would be quick and
  creative with words and numbers, as well as enjoy
  intellectual puzzles
• a test item for it might ask what comes next in
  each series? BDACZBYA 456345623456

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Stable Traits The Big Five

• Extroversion outgoing, assertive, and active
• Agreeableness kind and helpful
• Conscientiousness organized, deliberate, and
  conforming
• Neuroticism anxious, moody, and self-punishing
• Openness imaginative, curious, artistic, and
  willing to have new experiences