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Review Assignment - Early Adulthood

DIRECTIONS: Download the assignment to your personal hard drive or external thumb drive. Please type your name and responses to each of the prompts in RED ink directly into the document. Be sure to add adequate space for notes in between each question, write in your answers (as you complete your reading if you would like) and save a completed document for submission through our course site by the posted deadline.

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1. Describe your experiences with at least 3 of Havighurst's developmental tasks of young adults.
2. Discuss early adulthood's psychological developments, and how does drugs and other risky behaviors affect these developments?
3. Explain some reasons for infertility and the types of treatment for fertility.
4. In your own words describe Piaget's postformal thought stage.
5. Create an example for each of Perry's stages of cognitive schemes.
6. Discuss your experiences with school from highschool to college. How has college affected your early adulthood development? What are some skills you learn in college that help you in the workplace?
7. Describe, and create an example, for Erikson's stage of intimacy vs isolation. What are some differences between feeling a sense of intimacy with a friend vs a partner?
8. Which stage of Levinson's transition periods are you in? Then, critique this theory. Do you agree or disagree with Levinson's theory? Why or why not?
9. In your own words, explain Arnett's theory of emerging adulthood, and describe the 5 features of emerging adulthood.
10. Is the stage of emerging adulthood shown among different cultures? Explain why or why not.
11. Describe the four factors that influence attraction.
12. Complete the Application of Sternberg's theory. On the last slide of that application, match the type of love with its correct description in the triangle and then insert a screenshot image under #12 to show you completed it.
13. Explain some different aspects between dating, cohabiting and marriage.
14. Do you agree more with the social exchange theory or filter theory of mate selection? Explain why in your response.

Describe each of Galinsky's stages of parenthood including the age of the child and the main task as a parent:

Since parenting is bi-directional, explain how your parental characteristics, your childhood characteristics, and your sociocultural characteristics affected how you were raised by your parents.