1. Read this article. Are you currently experiencing the life stage of Emerging Adulthood (or have you experienced this life stage in the past), based on the five features described in the articles (identity exploration, instability, self-focused, feeling in-between, possibilities)? For each feature, provide a description about your life situation indicating how it fits or does not fit where you are currently (or what you had experienced in the past). Next, complete this scale. What is your score for each subscale? 2. Let's talk about the social clock. In the culture that you come from, what are some typical achievements that individuals of your age group are expected to accomplish (in the terms of social-clock milestones such as: financial independence, nest-leaving, relationships, and career)? Are you on time or off time in each of these milestones, respectively? How do you feel about where you are in each of these milestones, and how do you cope with these feelings? 3. In your own words, outline Marcia's four identity statuses and then describe people you know who fit into two of these categories. Make reference to each person's emotions and feelings. (You can also discuss your own identity status, if you wish.) 4. Watch this video and write down three things you learned from this video. Play media comment. 5. Outline the three different adult attachment styles (i.e., preoccupied/ambivalent, avoidant/dismissive, and securely attached) and offer real-life examples of people who fit each category.  6. Describe each Big Five trait and rate where you think you stand on each of these dimensions. Next, take the Big-Five Personality Test here (Links to an external site.) and report your results: What is your percentile for each of the Big-Five Personality Traits? Finally, give a concrete personal example of how a Big Five trait ranking may have changed (or not changed) since your teens.  7. Describe procedural, semantic, and episodic memory, and give a concrete example from your own life for each system. Also, indicate how vulnerable each facet of memory is to deterioration. 8. Discuss the basic principles of Laura Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory. Accompany your discussion with specific examples from the lives of older people you know. What is your opinion of Carstensen's idea that people get happier in later life?  9. Watch this video. Imagine you are working on the crisis line, and have a brief encounter with a man who recently lost his wife. He asked you for advice about how to help his 16-year-old daughter. Based on the video and your textbook (pay specific attention to table 15.2), What are three things that you would say to the dad to help himself and his child?  Play media comment. 10. Let's talk about the concept of good deaths. What does it mean for a person to have a good death? After reading your textbook section on good deaths as well as watching this video, list four goals of good deaths that are most important to you. Rank order them so that the most important is number 1, the next important one is number 2, and so on. For each of these end-of-life goals, explain why it is important. Question 1: https://www.apa.org/monitor/jun06/emerging Question 4: Ted Talk: Why your major will never matter Question 6: https://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ Question 9: TED Talk: Against Grieving in Silence | Rachel Stephenson Question 10: Ted Talk: How to do a Good Death

PROBLEMYou are the head of the catalog sales department of Century 21’s, a large department store located in New York CIty. Most of your 17 full-time employees are high school graduates, and many of them are female. For beginning workers, you pay $2.50 per hour over New York's minimum wage, plus fringe benefits. Send a message to your employees informing them that management has decided that no one can take vacation or personal days during the months of November and December. The reason, of course, is that the holiday season is your busiest sales period.PROCESSCompose a few paragraphs describing how you solved this problem. In narrative form, provide information such as the following:1. What is the purpose of your message?2. Describe your audience.3. Will you use a direct or an indirect organizational plan? (What is your audience’s likely reaction to this memo?)4. What reasons can you give for your decision?5. How can you stress the “you” attitude and use positive language to explain the reasons for this decision?6. Will you format this document as a letter or memo? Why?PRODUCTCompose your document and follow the five steps in the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, formatting, and proofreading). Format the final version on letterhead stationery.Aside from answering the questions in the previous section, the letter should be about one page in length, and the entire assignment (letter, reflection, etc.) should be approximately 2-3 pages.