...living at home under the rules of elders. This time period in peoples life, from ages 18-25, can be seen as “emerging adulthood,” a distinct process both demographically, subjectively, and in terms of identity explorations. Based on my interviews with an upperclassman and an underclassman, and my own perceptions, I...
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...Emerging adulthood should be acknowledged because during this time frame you experience a lot of different situations compared to those of an adolescent or of those as an adult. After I graduated high school I made a sudden decision to move from Texas to Colorado with my husband two weeks later after graduation. It was such a big move for me I have never been outside of Texas until then.During this time of my life I experienced for the first time how it was to have responsibilities as an adult. Both my husband and I did not have full responsibilities until we actually moved out on our own. Also within this period before we got pregnant with our first born living life was like being on eternal ecstasy. I felt as if I knew everything about...
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...errands that must be done to be successful in college and daily life. Would you be okay with your parent/guardian making choices for you? Probably not… Although you haven't reached a stage where you are financially stable, one is still growing into a well off adult. Often people describe adulthood as a mark of completing certain stages of life until you can ¨technically¨ be considered an adult. It's not though. Adulthood is when you've reached an age that requires responsibility and independence. That age is 18. “A theory first proposed by psychologist Jeffrey Arnett in 2000. “Emerging adulthood” classifies that time between 18 and the late 20s, when young adults are-in lay times, self absorbed, insecure, wide eyed and bushy tailed searching for a sense of identity, either from privileged background or an underserved one.”(Scaccia par.3). Arnett suggests this is a gap between adolescence and actual adulthood, however the way i see it, this can be considered an adult who is still finding themselves in adult life. Which is a good thing, in that “remember the storm is good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and stability”-Ho Chi Minh...
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...Early and Middle Adulthood Over the course of the lifespan people change daily and change at different paces. Where we come from as well as who we come from, molds us into adults. We just discussed the middle childhood and adolescence phase. In this paper, we will examine the psychological adjustments to aging and the lifestyle that occur within individuals during early and middle adulthood (emerging adulthood), which can be looked at as a separate developmental stage. Social and Intimate Relationships The social and intimate relationships that people experience during early and middle adulthood can change greatly. As I will explain later in this paper, role changes affect these relationships as well. As Erikson has stated in his intimacy versus isolation phase, humans are “social creatures.” The social relationships that people have at 18 will likely be different from those they have at 25. As emerging adulthood takes place, personality changes are evident. Many early and middle adults seek a mixture of education, friendship, and achievement. If this combination is attained, self-esteem will surely improve. For example, I was 19 when I enlisted in the Marine Corps. I had grown up in a small town in Wisconsin and was living in my own “bubble.” I received my first set of station orders and was sent to Iwakuni, Japan. It was exciting but also scary for me to think about being so far away from my hometown friends as well as my family. After I had gotten to Japan...
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...Early and Middle Adulthood Francisco Del Angel PSY/280 February 15, 2013 Shannon Hilligoss Early and Middle Adulthood In this paper, early and Middle adulthood will be compared and contrasted. It will show how the decisions made earlier in age may or may not affect people. This paper will go through the changes of social and intimate relationships in these two different age frames as well as the various role changes people in this age group might encounter. It’ll talk about health problems and the reasons for these problems. In early adult hood the age range is 18-25. Around this time frame people tend to break away from social ties and begin to become independent from their parents. They move out the house and go to college or simply get their own apartment to gain ultimate independence. They choose not to be committed to anyone, like a serious girlfriend to avoid marriage or children. It was thought that in order to be intimate you were to be serious with someone and possibly get married and have children. However early adults are beginning to discover that marriage and parenthood are only two of several ways paths to go through when in search of intimacy. One of the main sources of intimacy for emerging adults is friendship. This is especially true for those who do in fact break away from their parents and choose not to be married or have children of their own. Usually men and women prefer friends of the same sex so they can participate in same sex activities to...
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...this) Stable Context: This is where I talk about smartphones, and then give background on how relationships are formed and maintained throughout what I will later describe as emerging adulthood with parents. Destabilizing Condition: With the rise in technology, smartphones, and social networking sites, I don’t think that some forms of technology, in particular social networking sites, are the best way to stay in touch. Main Claim: My main claim is that the relationship between the emerging adult and the parent should not be solely based on technology. If the parent doesn’t have social networking site profiles, then they need to adjust to what the emerging adult wants to communicate by in order to maintain a stable relationship. Significance: With so many different forms of communication now, not all are beneficial to the emerging adult. Relationships that are formed and maintained online are not the same as ones that are in person or through personable means, such as on the phone or Skype. Road Map: I will deal with my paper in a part-to-part format. Move 1: I need to define emerging adulthood as well as the way that relationships between the emerging adults and parents are formed. Sub-Claim 1: The relationship between these two groups seems to get better. The emerging adult...
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...Image Paper – Class C Based upon the class, readings, and personal experience related to Class C, you are to write a paper centered around a developing image. This paper is due at the end of our next class session. Your image should be on some aspect of emerging or young adult development relevant to the week’s reading and class exercises and take one of the following forms: · Image development – use this option if you have no prior image of the adult development concept or concepts in question. · Image refinement – to be used if you had a prior image that has been refined by the reading and class exercises. · Image reversal – to be used if your image has changed from one position to another [such as “viewing aging in negative light to viewing aging in a positive light] · Image busting – to be used if one’s formerly confident image has been challenged but one does not have anything to replace it with. Rather, one has several questions and things one needs to examine more fully. Some possible images for Class C might include: · Myth v. reality in emerging and/or young adult development · Nature of young adult cognition · Erikson’s concepts of identity and intimacy and how are they related to one another? · Cultural and/or gender issues in emerging adulthood and/or young adult development Once one has selected an appropriate image, the task is to draw upon supporting material from three sources as related to that image. These three sources are the assigned...
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...Op-Ed Columnist The Odyssey Years By DAVID BROOKS Published: October 9, 2007 There used to be four common life phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Now, there are at least six: childhood, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old age. Of the new ones, the least understood is odyssey, the decade of wandering that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthood. Skip to next paragraph [pic] David Brooks The Way We Live Now During this decade, 20-somethings go to school and take breaks from school. They live with friends and they live at home. They fall in and out of love. They try one career and then try another. Their parents grow increasingly anxious. These parents understand that there’s bound to be a transition phase between student life and adult life. But when they look at their own grown children, they see the transition stretching five years, seven and beyond. The parents don’t even detect a clear sense of direction in their children’s lives. They look at them and see the things that are being delayed. They see that people in this age bracket are delaying marriage. They’re delaying having children. They’re delaying permanent employment. People who were born before 1964 tend to define adulthood by certain accomplishments — moving away from home, becoming financially independent, getting married and starting a family. In 1960, roughly 70 percent of 30-year-olds had achieved these things. By 2000, fewer than 40 percent...
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...acceptance d) Diagnosis of reactive attachment disorder VI) References Abstract Bowlby’s ethological attachment theory bases its argument on the premise that human individuals, just like animals have a tendency to have a natural inclination to establish and maintain lasting affectionate bonds (attachments) to the familiar and irreplaceable others. Bowlby further asserts that once the attachments are established, the strength, and stability of the links is related the emotional stability and well-being of the individual throughout life. Bowlby proposes that the attachment initially form during infancy and often involve one primary attachment figure (mostly the mother or other primary caregiver). However, growth from childhood to adulthood results in the development of other secondary and multiple attachments which are organized into...
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...LIFE EPSY 5460 Introduction The concept of a “midlife crisis” has been a well-known way of describing a time of stress and difficulties that may occur during middle adulthood. This study discusses views of the concept of midlife crisis in the past and the present. It will also compare and contrast Carl Jung, Elliott Jaques, Erik Erikson and Robert Peck’s view of middle age development. One of the most popular contradictions in society has been whether middle age is a peak period of life or the beginning of a downward slide. Many people change careers at midlife. Is this change because of a decrease in self-esteem or because one wants to find a new outlook on life and greater satisfaction? This paper will argue that middle age is not a time of loss and crisis but of new possibilities and fulfillment. The most common view of a midlife crisis has been a male in his 40’s who leaves his wife for a younger woman and runs off in a sports car; or a woman in her 40’s or 50’s that gets a face lift, breast lift and tries to reinvent herself. These views have been promoted in magazines, television shows and movies. Our society as a whole has promoted youth and beauty as one of the most important things in life. The purpose of this study is to provide information contrary to this popular belief. This paper proposes that the knowledge and confidence that comes with age is actually more important to most middle age people than physical appearance and trying to appear youthful. ...
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...Sociology 435 Final Paper Assignment You will write a scholarly paper on gender and leadership by focusing on a specific leader or by comparing 2 or more leaders. The leaders may be from any historical era or from any culture. The main focus of your inquiry into this leader is the impact of gender or a gender issue on his/her leadership. At first you may think that your only option is to write a paper on a famous woman leader such a Margaret Thatcher. This would work, of course, as there are many articles and books written about her and you could discuss her work-family balance, or her gender socialization in childhood in your paper. However, a there are many other possible choices such as Malala Yousafza, Christine Jorgensen or Lynn Conway. You could also compare the experiences of more than one leader. For example, a paper on the American presidents who grew up with single mothers, or comparing three emerging teen leaders in Asia would be interesting topics. Try your best to stay away from movie stars, singers, or other pop starts unless they became politically active or took on leadership roles that went beyond entertainment. It is too difficult to sift through tabloid articles and the final papers will suffer because of this. Please include the following sections in your paper: Introduction of the leader Here you will introduce your topic and explain why your think it is important. You need to convince any reader of your paper that it is worth his/her...
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...and the remaining words are lowercase. Example: Experiment 1: An Interview Validation Study External Validation Method. Participants. Sleep-deprived group. Selecting headings (use in the order delineated): If only one level heading is required, then use LEVEL 1. If two levels are required, then use LEVEL 1 and LEVEL 2 headings. If three levels are required, then use LEVEL 1, LEVEL 2 and LEVEL 3. If four levels are required, then use LEVEL 1, LEVEL 2, LEVEL 3 and LEVEL 4. For a five level extended paper, use LEVEL 1, LEVEL 2, LEVEL 3 and LEVEL 4, LEVEL 5. Regardless of the number of levels of subheading within a section, the heading structure for ALL sections follows the same top-down progression. Each section starts with the highest level of heading, even if one section may have fewer levels of subheading than another section. For example, the Method and Results sections of a paper may each have...
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...17 January, 2013 GRACE INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL AND LEADERSHIP COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT OF LEADERSHIP HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THE CASE MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE CHANGE THROUGH Submitted by: Gutema Eggie; ID No.: LE/159/05 Program: MA Submitted to: Mr. ___________ Term Paper Submitted for the Partial Fulfillment of the course Human Development Addis Ababa TABLE OF CONTENTS | | page | 1. Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------ 2. My Experience while I was 3-7 years-------------- 3. THE AGE FROM 8-12 SCHOOL AND ANOTHER SOCIAL ACTIVITY------------ 4. The age between 13-18 (Success and Disaster age) total change | 2334 | | INTRODUCTION Human Development: human development is a long or short duration of time process encompass in gradual, sequential, and even ordinary change of an organism through time from lower part to some higher position in three most important Areas. These three important developmental changes areas are: physical, cognitive, and emotional-social. In the process of development, all these three fundamental changes may cannot take place in equal proportion or in the same speed of development in an individual. Some of them moving with constant speed for some time and decrease its speed the other time. Some of them may take place soon and in an irregular speed. For example human...
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...Classical conditions The classical conditioning experiment conducted by Pavlov goes as follows: A dog is hooked to a mechanism that measures the amount that the dog salivates. A tone is sounded just before a dog is given meat powder. This occurs several times. Eventually, conditioning occurs in that the dog salivates just to the bell alone. Of course, the dog salivates instinctively in response to the food, but "learns" to salivate to the sound of the bell, much as you might find your mouth watering at the site, smell, or even memory of your favorite food. Pavlov used this relatively simple experiment as a model for describing much of the automatic/nonconscious learning that occurs in everyday life. In any case where you have “learned” to respond automatically to some sort of stimulus with fear, joy, excitement, or anticipation you have become classically conditioned. Cited: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. My classical condition started when I took my family to ride the incredible hulk roller coaster in universal studios, Orlando Florida amusement park. I had always wondered what it would be like to ride that roller coaster. You haven't truly lived until you've experienced The Incredible Hulk's wild and unique uphill launch. The effect is like being trapped inside an airplane that’s flying out of control. Quickly accelerating uphill defies logic, and feels both exhilarating and terrifying. It is not for the faint of heart, this...
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...Adolescent times of storm and stress revised Hanne Op de Beeck Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC) Hanne.Opdebeeck@law.kuleuven.be ABSTRACT This paper focuses on two issues regarding theories of adolescence. The first one, which has been a topic of discussion for a long time, concerns whether adolescence should be regarded as either an uncomplicated or a turbulent period. In the latter case, it is aspired in this paper to find out which factors account for such turbulence. The second issue, which arose more recently, concerns the continually longer postponement of the transition to adulthood. These topics are empirically addressed using the data of the second Flemish Youth Monitor. Analyses indicate that the loss of childhood innocence causes adolescents to have a more realistic evaluation of live, self and relationships. For adolescents whose ties with parents and their school environment are less tight, this can cause heightened stress in terms of lowered selfesteem and negative future prospects. These stresses, however, cannot account for the rise in delinquent activity during this developmental stage, for the analyses indicate that adolescent delinquency rather results from a more outgoing lifestyle. Finally, the idea of a prolongation of ‘storm and stress’ cannot be supported by the data, since it is found that most youth find their balance back around age 22. 1. STORM AND STRESS? The idea of adolescence being a period of ‘storm and stress’ – a perspective which was introduced...
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