Chapter 9: Life Span Development (Part 2)

Parenting

• The three basic parenting styles described by psychologist Diana Baumrind are authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive.

• Researchers have found that the authoritative style of parenting is most likely to be associated with children who are well-adjusted.

Youth

• The stage that marks the transition between childhood and adulthood is called adolescence.

• The term puberty refers to the stage in which an individual reaches sexual maturity and becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction.

• Usually, conflicts between parents and their adolescent children focus on issues of control and authority.

• Kohlberg’s three levels of moral reasoning are pre conventional, conventional, and post conventional.

Middle Age

• According to Erik Erikson, the two fundamental themes that dominate adult development are love and work.

• The end of menstruation in women, marking the end of reproductive capacity, is called menopause.

Marriage

• Research has shown that people are most likely to marry someone who is similar in physical attractiveness, status, ethnicity, beliefs, and values.

• Satisfaction with martial relationship will generally decrease after the birth of a child.

Aging

• The majority of adults aged 65 and older in the United States are healthy, active, and self- sufficient.

• In the past ten years, the percentage of people who lived in a nursing home decreased for all age groups.

• Death anxiety typically peaks prior to older adulthood.