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    Head: PHYSICAL‚ COGNITIVE‚ AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Adjustment to change is part of life in the entirety of the lifespan‚ and this applies to late adulthood as well- where change may be decline. Aging is an inevitable part of life‚ but there are changes one can make in lifestyle that can become positive or negative factors in the areas of physical‚ cognitive‚ and social development or decline. One change in each area would be freedom or limitations of ability. One change in cognitive development could

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    Consider applications to education (16 marks) AO2 Piaget believed in the progress of a child’s cognitive development through schooling and has an individualist approach in the way in which the child is an active participant and is responsible for their own learning. According to Piaget‚ cognitive development occurs as the result of maturation. You cannot teach a child certain activities before they are biologically ready‚ for example trying to reach a pre-operationalized child to perform abstract

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    important to maintain the physical and mental aspects of a person’s health and wellbeing. This is especially relevant for exercise in late adulthood‚ with late adulthood being a person aged sixty plus (Hoffnung et al.‚ 2013)‚ the need to maintain health physical attribute as to live independently or just functionally live along with maintaining mental capacities and social relationships. Even with physical activity being a lesser part of the daily routine for many older adults‚ adequate sleep‚ good nutrition

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    Buzz buzz buzz is the sound most middle school students phones sound like. Students are always on their phone using social media. Social media brings families closer and is a big part of our lives. It also has a positive influence on middle school students. Social media brings families closer. According to the article “Reach Out and Text Someone” they stated that “When parents join the same social media accounts as their kids they can protect them more.” This is important because kids can still

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    Late Adulthood and Death According to Erikson stages of human development‚ late adulthood stage is between the ages 65 to death (Erikson‚ 1982). This stage is ego integrity versus despair involves individual to look back over one’s life and feel a sense of contentment and satisfaction (Erikson‚ 1982). Success at this stage leads to feeling of wisdom and failure to achieve results in bitterness‚ regret‚ and despair. This negative resolution manifests itself as a fear of death‚ a sense that life

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    SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY OF GENDER DEVELOPMENT AND DIFFERENTIATION Kay Bussey Macquarie University Albert Bandura Stanford University Abstract Human differentiation on the basis of gender is a fundamental phenomenon that affects virtually every aspect of people’s daily lives. This article presents the social cognitive theory of gender-role development and functioning. It specifies how gender conceptions are constructed from the complex mix of experiences and how they operate in concert with motivational

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    INTIMACY IN OLDER ADULTHOOD Intimacy in Older Adulthood Lauren Heatherly August 9‚ 2013 Final Paper To Meet Partial Requirements For SOCI-349 Aging and Society Southern Adventist University School of Social Work INTIMACY IN OLDER ADULTHOOD 1 Introduction As human beings‚ social interaction is important in our lives. It is so crucial that Hillier and Barrow (2010) characterize it as the essence of life for all people of all ages. However‚ not only is social activity important

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    As we age‚ our bodies change mentally and physically in several different ways. These changes occur throughout the three stages of adulthood: early‚ middle‚ and late. Everyone ages differently depending on certain individual factors such as genetics or the surrounding environment. Erik Erikson created stages of psychosocial development that coincide with the three stages we endure throughout our adulthood. Every person encounters age-related changes based on unique factors. Aging is an inevitable

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    During the late Middle Ages when the bubonic plague was rampant throughout Europe‚ there came a time when the common townsfolk found themselves with heavier pockets‚ due to lack of workers and increased prices on daily goods and services. When the upper class saw their culture being infiltrated by lowly common folk who could suddenly afford lavish goods like themselves‚ what are known as sumptuary laws came into effect. These laws alongside the feudal system discriminated against the lower class

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    The main ideas/themes of emerging adulthood include: career exploration‚ college vs. no college‚ postponing marriage‚ being economically stable without support‚ addressing emerging adulthood in other cultures‚ and community engagement. These may be important milestones in the emerging adulthood/adult phase of life that may look different in each culture‚ and each route that the young adult pursues. The idea of the phase emerging adulthood evolved from the American psychologist‚ Jeffrey Arnett (Berk

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