...Adult Development Education is Vital for Great Decision Making PSY202 Adult Development Education is Vital for Decision Making Before learning about adult development, I was unaware of how the events in my life have shaped me. Looking at them now, I would have made better decisions if I had the knowledge of adult development that I have learned in this class. As an immigrant, I know what an opportunity I was given when I came to the United States. The education I have been exposed to in the United States has increased my situational awareness and overall decision-making abilities. I was born in Santiago, Chile to a middle income hard working family. My parents were very young when I was born so they didn’t have any experience raising a child. They were also very poor. My father struggled through medical school. During the earlier years of his career, I remember how he would go from house to house taking people’s blood pressure for donations. This is how we would eat. Due to my father’s intelligence, the University of Chile hired him as a scientist. He became very successful which is why the National Institute of Health bought all of us tickets to the United States. This was a very major transition in my life. I was nine years old when I came to the United States. Because I was so young, I learned English very quickly. I was the oldest of three girls. During this time of my life, I gained a sense of industry more then a sense...
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...BSHS 371 Adult and Family Development Final Exam Please copy and paste the exam onto a new document page and write below the question. Each question is worth one point. All answers are from your assigned reading. ( Hint: Remember my clue in class that if you don’t have time to read all of a chapter, read the summaries at the end of the chapter). 1. According to our course text, what are the ages in the three main stages of adult development? Young adulthood: 18 to 35 The middle years: 35 to 40 and up to 62 to 65 Late Life: 65 until you are six feet under. (Write the name of the stage and then the age range, for example……….name of stage…..ages 30-50….). 2. According to our course text, what are the years that are considered the ‘baby boomer” years of birth? ( Half a point) Baby boomers: 1946 to 1964 What are the two characteristics which distinguish the “baby boomers” from previous birth cohorts? (Half a point) Size of their families as there were less children being born than before and life experiences such as women in the work force. 3. According to our course text, what is “empty nest syndrome” (or postparental family) (Half a point) and is it shown by research that mothers have “empty nest syndrome” (Half a point) ? Empty nest syndrome is when the youngest moves away from home. What research has shown is that women in the past that were only mothers, wives...
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...Sandra J. Mitchell Trident University International MAE 524 – Adult Development and Learning Module 1 – Case Dr. Jerusalem Howard Fall 2013 Andragogy Andragogy was a concept first introduced by Alexander Kapp in 1833 to describe how adults learn as opposed to children (infed.org). It however did not gain much appreciation and it was not until around the 1950’s when the term came to surface again. Andragogy was actually a study done in Europe in the 1950’s that was researching on how adults learned. The current and recognized definition of andragogy “the art and science of helping adults learn” was coined by an American theorist of adult education Malcolm Knowles in the 1970’s (Queensland 2010). Knowles recognized that adults learned differently and brought unique characteristics to the learning environment, what he referred to as “adult learning principles” (Queensland). They are as follows: * Adults are internally motivated and self-directed * Adults bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiences * Adults are goal oriented * Adults are relevancy oriented * Adults are practical * Adult learner like to be respected With these principles in mind, one can see that adult learners require a different approach when it comes to learning. When adults return to school, it is usually because they are looking to advance their career, learn a new skill or just to learn something new. With jobs getting harder and harder to find, many look...
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...Adult Aging and Development 1.) One specific example of aging would be physical changes during adulthood such as outward appearance. Weight and body composition changes as a pattern over adulthood. It first starts to rise in our 30s and 40s and then levels out in the 50s and 60s but then it declines by the time you hit your 70s. The MIDUS (Midlife in the United States) graph shows the weight curve for men and women in figure 2.1 of our book on page 37. One specific research example that demonstrates this would be that weight and body composition can affect the person to not be able to exercise as needed which can cause the body to breakdown in muscle form and tissue. This can cause excessive weight gain which leads to other medically related problems. Over two thirds of the adults in the United Sates are overweight in their BMI range as per the BMI (Body Mass Index Table) on page 39. This affects the social or physiological aspect of adulthood by causing depression, less exercising, unhealthy eating and greater health risks such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, knee replacement surgery, cancer, fatigue and other health risks. An example would be the study that was done by the health and retirement survey of almost 8000 adults between ages 51 and 61years of age over a time of 4 years in which the results showed the effects of BMI on health related quality of life for aging adults. 2.) Functional Age means that the individual is physical able to perform desired tasks...
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...Later Adulthood Development Report Later adulthood is the time after age 65 or the last segment of life. This doesn’t mean life ends, rather it’s a new beginning or a new chapter of your life. This is such a diverse age range. It can span over 30 years. Many things change during this stage in age. We are transitioning into retirement or partial retirement for the more adventurous ones. Our living arrangements may change and there are many relationship changes during this stage of life too. Changes and lots of them As we transition into later adulthood many things change. We are retiring, going to retire or partially retire in the next few years. Retiring brings on a lot of changes social settings and role changes. We go from being important in the work force to an elder. We seem to lose our identity when we retire. This alone can be too much for us to handle and may need a little extra time adjusting into our new role or we may even need a little help adjusting. We have spent so many years working and allowing that to define who we are as a person that we may feel a loss or even feel lost or unimportant anymore. If there is a partial retirement, maybe we take on a less meaningful job, or we are handing over our job to someone else that is slowly taking over, again we feel as though we are losing apart of ourselves. There are so many adjustments that will need to be made when you retire, you will have so much more time on your hands, what will you do with all this extra time...
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...| 1. | |Question : | |When asked to describe his life, Johnny mentioned his wife, kids, neighborly friends, and coworkers. He has described his _________________. | | | | | | | | | |Student Answer: | | | |MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect [pic] macrosystem | | ...
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...tribulations with his mother, Jean. The piece also provides an ideal case study of development, experiences, challenges, and transitions across the adult phases of the human lifespan, thereby allowing for an application and analysis of adult psychology theories and concepts that are commonly presented in more objective and less narrative works. First, attention will be paid to the roles and relationships that Richard and Jean Russo establish throughout their lives. Then, cognitive aging and decline will be discussed in relation to Jean’s physical and mental health and her dementia. Richard’s role as Jean’s primary caregiver will be studied through...
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...Lifespan Development and Personality Development does not only start as soon as we are born, but does not end with adolescence as some may think. Adults also experience cognitive, physical, and social changes along with going through modifications. It has been suggested that adulthood starts at the age of 18, but adulthood can actually be divided into three different periods; early adulthood (18 to 40), middle adulthood (41 to 60), and late adulthood (60 and up). In early adulthood, a persons’ body is still developing. The chest range increases, shoulder length, and height, along with each individual continues to expand his or her physical capabilities. Through the mid-thirties just about everyone will have some type of hearing loss, but during this time most people would will say this these years are the best part of adulthood. In middle adulthood, physical modifications slowly appear. The one that is most common is the loss of sensory sharpness. Individuals become more sensitive to light, more accurate at noticing differences in the distance, and he or she is slower and less able to consider factors. At the age of 40, an individual has more caution then before. In a woman’s late 40’s or early 50’s, a woman will go through menopause, which is the shutdown of her reproductive capability. Estrogen and progesterone also decrease, and her menstrual cycle eventually stops. Most individuals are well into the delayed adulthood before his or her physical functions start to show...
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...Social Development Research “The Social Construction of the Personal Past and Its Implications for Adult Development” is the name of my article written by Monisha Pasupathi of the University of Utah. It was published in the Psychological Bulletin in 2001. I located this article from the University of Phoenix library and no it was not difficult to locate and the language was somewhat difficult to understand. The reason I picked this article is because it provides me with so much information on the issues in social development in adulthood. Yes, I would use this article in a research paper on this topic because this article provided me with information about the social process and development of the stage. This article also provides me with information about adult intellectual development. The information provided in this article is really interesting and educational. The main points in this article makes concerning social development in adulthood, because it helps me understand rather or not culture plays a part in social development in adulthood, which it does. Yes, I somewhat agree with this article’s on view. Now I knew what this article is talking about when comes life because I believe that depends on how you were brought up and what your surroundings were when you was growing up because the key role in your adulthood life. Some people do not believe this but I believe it plays a huge part in life. Some people believe when you get...
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...transition into adulthood is one of the most complex and significant shifts of any generation. It is a complex and ongoing process that starts as soon as a child is born and continues as the child becomes an adolescent, to early adult life, and then through the stages of adulthood. When I think of the meaning of becoming an adult I think of setting aside childish ways and becoming a responsible adult. When emerging to adult hood you have to do adult things like being financially responsible, taking care of the household, cooking, cleaning, servicing your car regularly, and putting gas in it. There are so many things you need to do to for a smooth transition into adulthood. Becoming an adult is the most important thing in life. Culture I think going into adulthood in my culture the expectations were set pretty high. After high school I was expected to get a job and start making my own money. I had a boyfriend so my expectations where not to move out with him until I was married, no kids until I was married. I also had to continue to go to church every Sunday. In my culture graduating from high school is a big part of growing up it is an accomplishment we wait to see and work hard to get to. Graduating from high school is the stepping stone into adult hood. It is the first thing that starts your life because it is a what is next process. One has to ask ones self is college for me? Do I want to get a job and start making money. So many decisions and things you have to prepare for...
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...Provide two (2) specific examples of how your development has been influenced by the “rings,” or systems, of influence as he suggests. What influences were the strongest? Does nature (our genetic makeup) or nurture (our environment) have a stronger influence on adult development? Explain. The strongest influences of the “ring” or system were the microsystem which I think is right when it comes to our daily environment, family, neighborhood and the religion we were brought up in or around that really does have a significant impact on us as children and up into adulthood. And also the mesosystem which has a connection with all the microsystems because it all boils down to what children see they pick up on or should I say they pick up on what they see and this could have a great effect on them until adulthood. In my personal opinion it could be a little bit of both nature versus nurture, because our genetic makeup has a lot to do with who we are and our environment has a lot to do with who we are as well as where we came from and our beliefs and some people may argue that its one or the other but to me it’s both because it stems from childhood all the way to adult and make us who we are. So one could argue that it’s either both or one another depending on which way you view and the person at the time. I really like Bronfenbrenner’s belief “that environment or “systems” in which a person lives influences them to varying degrees.” (Witt, G. A. and Mossler, R. A., 2010) ...
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...Social Development Research • A study was done to examine violent behavior from ages 13 to 21 and identified predictors at age 10. • 55% of youth engaged in violence in adolescence, but desisted from any violence in early adulthood. • 16% of people persisted in violent behaviors at age 21. • The analysis performed and referred to in this article found that factors loaded consistently on three components, which were labeled; Early Individual Characteristics, Early Pro-social Development, and Early Antisocial influences. Explain why you chose this topic and article: I chose the topic (childhood risk factors for persistence of violence in the transition of adulthood) because violence among children has become more and more common over the years. It is not unheard of to hear a child brought a gun, knife, or even a hand grenade to school. I was curious to learn what characteristics were shown in these type of children and what the likely hood was for them to turn around their lifestyle as an adult. Key points of the article: The key points in this article were the numbers given during and after the study. It showed that more than half of youth that were engaged in violence in their childhood years retracted from any violence in early adulthood. The article also made it a point to inform that some differences in risk profiles did develop after combining risk and protective factors into component scales that were based on results of the principal components analysis. If you...
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...cultural factors that influence the interviewees. All of the issues help to explain many of the lifestyle changes that adults make over the years. Young Adulthood The first interview conducted focused on the early stage of adulthood. A young woman age 25 by the name of Kelsey was asked a series of questions to help us gain some insight on her stage of development and allow her responses to be analyzed. I began with questions regarding her physical stage of development. I asked Kelsey how she feels about her physical state and what she does to take care of herself. Her response explained that she believes that she is in pretty good health although she does not have to do too much to stay that way. She reported that she eats fast- food a few times a week due to her busy schedule, but she does make time to exercise at least three times a week. She is a college student at the local college and she is also working part-time. I asked if there are any apparent differences between your previous physical state during her previous stage of adolescents and now. She named weight gain as her primary change. She explained that she used to be able to eat whatever she wanted without a change in her weight, but now she is noticing that she gains it easier and it is harder to get rid of. The next series of questions related to her social and emotional stage of development. I asked her which...
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...in life. This paper will discuss how intimate and social relationships develop during early and middle adulthood. This paper will also identify the various role changes that transpire during the periods of early and middle adulthood. The paper will also discuss the immediate and future influences of healthy and unhealthy behaviors practiced throughout early and middle adulthood. The transition from teenage years into early adulthood comes with many challenges; some of the challenges involve different aspects. During early adulthood there are many changes that occur, such as physical, cognitive and emotional changes. First the physical change that comes with leaving adolescence and growing into early adulthood. Women have reached their adult height by age 18 and men by age 21. During this time both men and women continue to add body fat and men continue to build muscle mass. Depending on an individual’s up-bringing it will have an affect on one social skills and intimate relationships. Studies show individual’s who’s up-bringing in a lower income environment usually have less expectation of completing school and or maintaining a professional career. It also states that individual in lower income situations tend to have children out of wedlock and not get married and cohabit. Intimate relationships start in adolescence and change as one reaches early adulthood to middle adulthood (Meier & Allen, 2008). Studies show that intimate relationships start in infancy between a mother...
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...Adulthood and Aging Social Processes and Development My topic and article are about social selection that can begin in early adulthood. The individuals a person surround themselves with are crucial to who that person is and becomes. The article was enlightening and gave me insight into the ways in which I interact with people. I am better able to understand many of the choices in my life when I compare it to gathered information about others. The article states that as a person ages they tend to maintain a consistent amount of close relationships. “In the last quarter of the twentieth century, it became increasingly clear that understanding older adults requires an examination of individual experiences across the life course.” Antonucci, T. C., Vandewater, E. A., & Lansford, J. E. (2000). Adulthood and aging: Social processes and development. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology, Vol. 1 (pp. 79-85). Washington, DC New York, NY USUS: American Psychological Association. This is very interesting to me as I try to mold my kids and direct them to make the right choices. Our lives center on our careers and relationships, leaving less time for anything else. Early adulthood is the period between adolescence and adulthood where we live in limbo. We are not quite adults, and we haven't left some of our adolescent games behind. As we do begin to leave our adolescence, we say goodbye to proms and high school football games and stumble into the work force and...
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