03. Adolescence & Adulthood Development Flashcards
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Early Adulthood Age?
20 to 40 years
Middle Age Adulthood Age?
40 to 65 years
Old Age Adulthood Age?
65+ years
Adolesence physical development examples
- Growth spurt during puberty
- secondary sex characteristics develop such as breast and penile development, voice deepening and pubic hair growth.
- Bones complete ossification
- fine and gross motor development refines.
Male hormones that impact development
Testosterone and Human Growth Hormone
Female Hormones impacting development
Oestrogen, progesterone and human growth hormone
Testosterone role
Responsible for the development of male secondary sex characteristics
Oestrogen
Responsible for the development of female secondary sex characteristic and is also involved in the menstrual cycle
Progesterone
Regulates the menstrual cycle and formation of the lining of the uterus
Human Growth hormone
Responsible for the increase in general body size
Adolesence social development examples
- Demonstrate a greater interest in a romantic relationships
- Learn to interact and communicate with a wider range of people e.g. school, sport, wider friendship groups
- learn to take on new roles such as a part time job, boyfriend, girlfriend etc
- Being accepted becomes important and therefore learn to behave.
- Learn to behave in socially appropriate ways appropriate ways to fit in.
Adolesence emotional development examples
- Can become more self conscious as compare themselves to others.
- Learn to control mood swings.
- Experience new emotions eg love, lust.
- Develop self concept.
Adolescence intellectual development examples
- Learn to think in abstract and analytical ways.
- Learn to reason and solve complex problems.
- Develop a more efficient memory.
- Learn to consider issues from a number of points of view.
Stages of Adulthood
Early 20 to 40 yrs. Middle 40 to 65 years. Late 65 onwards.
Early adulthood physical development
Reaching Maximum:
- height
- bone density
- strength
- aerobic capacity
Middle adulthood physical development
Maintenance of:
- height
- bone density
- strength
- aerobic power.
- Signs of ageing start to appear
- Reflexes and senses decrease
Late adulthood physical development
Decline in:
- strength
- height
- strength
- aerobic power
- Afflicted with degenerative diseases e.g osteoporosis, arthritis, etc.
- Metabolism slows, bowel functioning decreases.
Early adulthood social development
- Learn to take on new roles e.g. employee, parent
- Learn to become independent/moving out of home
Middle adulthood social development
- Learn to make adjustments around children leaving home.
- Learn to take on new roles e.g. grandparent.
- Dealing with/caring for ageing parents
Late adulthood social development
- Learn to cope with retirement
- Learn to deal with a reduced social network.
Early adulthood intellectual development
- Learn new skills at University
- employment
- becoming a parent
- travel
Middle adulthood intellectual development
Learn new skills with changes in life, e.g as own children get older, take on new roles at work, start new hobbies, travel
Late adulthood intellectual development
- Learn new skills often through activities such as playing cards, crosswords, travel. -
- Information processing speeds slow down.
- Memory does not decline but ability to recall does.
Emotional Development across all stages of adulthood
- Experience new emotions.
- Refine ways of coping with their emotions
