Emerging and Early Adulthood Overview
Learning Outcomes
- Explain emerging adulthood
- Explain how emerging adulthood differs from adolescence and adulthood
- Describe economic and cultural variations of emerging adulthood
- Identify the markers of adulthood
- Identify where emerging and early adults currently live
- Summarize the overall physical growth in early adulthood
- Describe statistics, possible causes, and consequences of obesity
- Explain how early adulthood is a healthy, yet risky time of life
- Identify the risk factors for substance use
- Describe the changes in brain maturation
- Describe gender in adulthood, including gender minorities and stress
- Define sexuality and explain the female and male reproductive systems
- Describe the brain areas and hormones responsible for sexual behavior
- Identify sexually transmitted infections
- Describe cultural views related to sexuality
- Describe research on sexual orientation
- Distinguish between formal and postformal thought
- Describe dialectical thought
- Describe the changes in educational attainment and the costs of education
- Describe the benefits of education beyond high school
- Describe the stages in career development, millennial employment, and NEETS
- Describe sexism and how it affects pay, hiring, employment, and education
- Describe the relationship between infant and adult temperament
- Explain personality in early adulthood
- Explain the five factor model of personality
- Describe adult attachment styles
- Describe Erikson’s stage of intimacy vs. isolation
- Identify the factors affecting attraction
- Differentiate among the types of love
- Describe adult lifestyles, including singlehood, cohabitation and marriage
- Describe the factors that influence parenting