Psy 210 Appendix F

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Appendix F

For each of three developmental domains: physical, cognitive, and social/personality, identify two major changes or challenges associated with that developmental stage (adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood).

|Stage of Development |Physical Development |Cognitive Development |Social/Personality Development |
|Adolescence |Two major changes here are the |Two major changes here with |Two major changes here for |
| |growth spurt adolescents go |adolescents are those of Formal |adolescents are the quest they |
| |through such as puberty and |Operational Stage,
and then |have for their own independence, |
| |secondary sex characteristics. |Egocentrism. |and Risky Behavior. |
|Young Adulthood |Two major changes here are those|Two major changes here are more |Two major changes here are that |
| |of women accumulating more body |memory functioning and more |they become more ambitious and |
| |fat, and men reaching their most|concentrated thinking.
|strive to be more than just the |
| |strength at this time. | |usual person during this period. |
| | | |They also feel more independence |
| | | |so if one is in a serious |
| | | |relationship they will question |
| | | |where that relationship is going |
| | | |and If it is worth continuing.
|
|Middle Adulthood |Two major changes here the loss |Two major changes here are a |Two major changes here are the |
| |of strength and stamina, and the|slight loss of memory |midlife transition in which |
| |loss of some bone structure. |functioning and some memory |people look at life as how many |
| |Another change is the occurrence|lapses. |years they may have left instead |
| |of menopause. | |of how many years they have |
| | | |lived. Another is the midlife |
| | | |crisis in which certain thoughts |
| | | |can lead to poor and bad |
| | | |decisions. |
|Late Adulthood |Two major changes are that your |Two major changes here are the |Two major changes here are |
| |skin becomes less elastic and |deficits in working memory and |depression in which this may |
| |more wrinkled and hair loss |Alzheimer's disease may occur in|occur because of health issues, |
| |occurs more rapidly as well as |some cases where the result can |family issues, or just the issue |
| |gray hairs. |be deadly. |of facing death. Another is the |
| | | |stage of ego integrity where one |
| | | |is more concerned about standing |
| | | |their ground on who they are and |
| | | |who they will always be. |