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             1. How do you know when you are an adult?
             -Men reach full shoulder and upper arm size while women attain their full breast and hip size.
             -Wrinkling of the skin (usually around the eyes) beginning at the age of 20 due to the decrease in collagen fibers.
             2. What are some of the major challenges of YA?
             Minor "Major" Challenges:
             -Unwanted pregnancies (although it is less prevalent compared to late adolescence)
             -Eating Disorders (Typically a female problem):
             >Bulimia Nervosa (binge eating then purging)
             -Violence (Primarily a male problem):
             -Drug Abuse & Addiction (Male and Female)
             3. What are the 3 approaches that explain adult cognition? How are the Different?
             -Postformal Approach: Picks up where Piaget left off, emphasizing the possible emergence of a new stage of thinking and reasoning in adulthood that builds on the skills of formal operational thinking.
             -Psychometric Approach: Analyzes components of intelligence such as those measured by IQ tests, specifically describing which components improve or decline during adulthood.
             -Infromation-pocessing Approach: Studies encoding, storage and retrieval of info. throughout life, considering whether the efficiency of these processes changes as the individual grows older.
             -Adults think under personal, practical and integrative terms. They don't think that there is one single absolute truth for every phenomenon. Additionally, they understand that most of life's answers are provisional. Furthermore, they think subjectively, interpersonally and non-rationally.
             5. What does Freud, Maslow, and Erikson claim is the task for young adults?
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