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Post formal thought - Answer✔relativistic, multiple thinking, commitment with realism
emerging adulthood - Answer✔in-between period during which individuals leave adolescence
but are not fully adults
physical peak - Answer✔20-35 years of age, athletic activities may peak at earlier ages
sports peak - Answer✔quick movement, speed, endurance peak at younger ages, other sports
not requiring this may peak later (sports with more cerebral or mental aspect of game)
multidirectional developement - Answer✔development can involve improvement and decline
and sometimes at the same time
sexual activity at 14-15 - Answer✔males 11% intercourse, 1-12% oral. females 9% intercourse
sexual activity at 16-17 - Answer✔females and males 30%, males 2-31% oral, females 5-24%
oral
LGBT percentage by age - Answer✔women 7% lesbian, males 8% gay, 4.1% adults, 7.3%
millennials, 12% gen-Z
married couples sexual activity - Answer✔married couples have sex 58 times a year on average,
married couples engage more frequently in sex than singles
divorce stats - Answer✔for every 1000 marriages in the last year only 14.9% end in divorce,
lowest in 50 years.
divorce by wealth - Answer✔top 1/3 of income earners 64% of marriages survive. lower 1/3 of
income earners only 24% of marriages stay intact
divorce stats fun facts - Answer✔-income over $50,000 lowers divorce by 30%
-baby 7 months after marriage vs before marriage lowers by 24%
-growing up in house with intact parents lowers your chances of divorce by 14%
-being religious lowers by 14%
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-attending college lowers by 13% (highly educated women have some of the lowest divorce
rates
postformal thought - Answer✔thinking that acknowledges that adult predicaments must
sometimes be solved in relativistic terms. adult thinking that's more relativistic, seeing things in
shades of gray rather than simple dichotomies. this type of thinking is more flexible and willing
to accept intellectual complexities. in contrast to hypothetico his concept of postformal thought
emphasized very pragmatic and applied ways of thinking to solve real world problems, this
approach is also dialectical-involving contradiction and compromise.
william perry - Answer✔dualistic, multiple thinking, commitment within relativism
dualistic thinking - Answer✔dividing information, values, and authority into right and wrong,
good and bad, we and they. all problems are solvable with one correct answer
commitment within relativism - Answer✔there are multiple viewpoints, but I can reflect on and
decide what I believe regarding these perspectives.
multiple thinking - Answer✔cognitive approach entailing recognition that there is more than
one legitimate view of things and that it can be difficult to justify one position as the true or
accurate one. there are different viewpoints to consider but it is hard to reconcile the various
perspectives.
4 stages of thinking - Answer✔1 dualistic
2 multiplicity
3 relativism
4 commitment
labouvie-vief and perry - Answer✔post formal thinking involves being able to accept some
uncertainty in life, emotional and rational processes brought together unlike Piaget's rational
approach.
multiplicity/ subjective knowledge - Answer✔there are conflicting answers, trust your inner
voice, not authority. solutions we don't know we those we don't know yet.
relativism/ procedural knowledge - Answer✔emphatic (why do you believe... what it means to
me...) solutions supported by reasons
Connected knowledge: empathetic (why do you believe X?; what does this poem say to me?)
vs.
Separated knowledge: "objective analysis" (what techniques can I use to analyze this poem?)
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PSYC 140 module 7 Study Guide 100%
Verified.
Post formal thought - Answer✔relativistic, multiple thinking, commitment with realism
emerging adulthood - Answer✔in-between period during which individuals leave adolescence
but are not fully adults
physical peak - Answer✔20-35 years of age, athletic activities may peak at earlier ages
sports peak - Answer✔quick movement, speed, endurance peak at younger ages, other sports
not requiring this may peak later (sports with more cerebral or mental aspect of game)
multidirectional developement - Answer✔development can involve improvement and decline
and sometimes at the same time
sexual activity at 14-15 - Answer✔males 11% intercourse, 1-12% oral. females 9% intercourse
sexual activity at 16-17 - Answer✔females and males 30%, males 2-31% oral, females 5-24%
oral
LGBT percentage by age - Answer✔women 7% lesbian, males 8% gay, 4.1% adults, 7.3%
millennials, 12% gen-Z
married couples sexual activity - Answer✔married couples have sex 58 times a year on average,
married couples engage more frequently in sex than singles
divorce stats - Answer✔for every 1000 marriages in the last year only 14.9% end in divorce,
lowest in 50 years.
divorce by wealth - Answer✔top 1/3 of income earners 64% of marriages survive. lower 1/3 of
income earners only 24% of marriages stay intact
divorce stats fun facts - Answer✔-income over $50,000 lowers divorce by 30%
-baby 7 months after marriage vs before marriage lowers by 24%
-growing up in house with intact parents lowers your chances of divorce by 14%
-being religious lowers by 14%
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-attending college lowers by 13% (highly educated women have some of the lowest divorce
rates
postformal thought - Answer✔thinking that acknowledges that adult predicaments must
sometimes be solved in relativistic terms. adult thinking that's more relativistic, seeing things in
shades of gray rather than simple dichotomies. this type of thinking is more flexible and willing
to accept intellectual complexities. in contrast to hypothetico his concept of postformal thought
emphasized very pragmatic and applied ways of thinking to solve real world problems, this
approach is also dialectical-involving contradiction and compromise.
william perry - Answer✔dualistic, multiple thinking, commitment within relativism
dualistic thinking - Answer✔dividing information, values, and authority into right and wrong,
good and bad, we and they. all problems are solvable with one correct answer
commitment within relativism - Answer✔there are multiple viewpoints, but I can reflect on and
decide what I believe regarding these perspectives.
multiple thinking - Answer✔cognitive approach entailing recognition that there is more than
one legitimate view of things and that it can be difficult to justify one position as the true or
accurate one. there are different viewpoints to consider but it is hard to reconcile the various
perspectives.
4 stages of thinking - Answer✔1 dualistic
2 multiplicity
3 relativism
4 commitment
labouvie-vief and perry - Answer✔post formal thinking involves being able to accept some
uncertainty in life, emotional and rational processes brought together unlike Piaget's rational
approach.
multiplicity/ subjective knowledge - Answer✔there are conflicting answers, trust your inner
voice, not authority. solutions we don't know we those we don't know yet.
relativism/ procedural knowledge - Answer✔emphatic (why do you believe... what it means to
me...) solutions supported by reasons
Connected knowledge: empathetic (why do you believe X?; what does this poem say to me?)
vs.
Separated knowledge: "objective analysis" (what techniques can I use to analyze this poem?)
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