Adolescence and Late Adulthood
Adolescence and Late Adulthood
Adolescence, the developmental stage between childhood and adulthood, is marked by the onset of puberty, the point at which sexual maturity occurs. The age at which puberty begins has implications for the way people view themselves and the way others see them. One of the most important stages during adolescence is the psychosocial development stage. Psychosocial development encompasses the way people’s understanding of themselves, one another, and the world around them changes during the course of development. Growing up in Miami, Fl I faced many challenges from other teenagers The age that I discovered my own role and personality traits was at the age of eighteen. I just graduated high school and was looking for a job when one of friends had told me how he was making money selling drugs and how he can help me start to selling. I knew then at that moment that I had to get away from him and everyone else around who thought the same way. Two weeks later I was in boot camp. I knew that my role was to leader and not a follower (Feldman 2010). During the late adulthood many physical changes are brought about by the aging process. The most obvious are those of appearance—hair thinning and turning gray, skin wrinkling and folding, and sometimes a slight loss of height as the thickness of the disks between vertebrae in the spine decreases—but subtler changes also occur in the body’s biological functioning. For example, sensory capabilities decrease as a result of aging: vision, hearing, smell, and taste become less sensitive. Reaction time slows, and physical stamina changes. The cognitive changes that occur during this period are fluid intelligence which does decline with age, and long-term memory abilities are sometimes
Impaired, crystallized intelligence shows slight increases with age, and short-term memory remains at about the same level, and the Intellectual declines are not an inevitable part of aging (Feldman, 2010).
Adolescence, the developmental stage between childhood and adulthood, is marked by the onset of puberty, the point at which sexual maturity occurs. The age at which puberty begins has implications for the way people view themselves and the way others see them. One of the most important stages during adolescence is the psychosocial development stage. Psychosocial development encompasses the way people’s understanding of themselves, one another, and the world around them changes during the course of development. Growing up in Miami, Fl I faced many challenges from other teenagers The age that I discovered my own role and personality traits was at the age of eighteen. I just graduated high school and was looking for a job when one of friends had told me how he was making money selling drugs and how he can help me start to selling. I knew then at that moment that I had to get away from him and everyone else around who thought the same way. Two weeks later I was in boot camp. I knew that my role was to leader and not a follower (Feldman 2010). During the late adulthood many physical changes are brought about by the aging process. The most obvious are those of appearance—hair thinning and turning gray, skin wrinkling and folding, and sometimes a slight loss of height as the thickness of the disks between vertebrae in the spine decreases—but subtler changes also occur in the body’s biological functioning. For example, sensory capabilities decrease as a result of aging: vision, hearing, smell, and taste become less sensitive. Reaction time slows, and physical stamina changes. The cognitive changes that occur during this period are fluid intelligence which does decline with age, and long-term memory abilities are sometimes
Impaired, crystallized intelligence shows slight increases with age, and short-term memory remains at about the same level, and the Intellectual declines are not an inevitable part of aging (Feldman, 2010).