In the realm of human anatomy and physiology, it is a standard assumption to claim that there is a distinct correlation between an individual’s height and wingspan. Wingspan can be defined as the extent across a person’s arms from fingertip to fingertip, while height in the measurement from someone’s feet to the top of their head. The typical human body has a height that matches a person’s wingspan. For instance, if you are five foot tall, you are assumed to have a wingspan of five feet. The correlation between height and wingspan is often expressed in a ratio of wingspan over height, which normally is recorded around 1.0 given the information regarded above.
Chapter 12, Development and Aging, shows the development of learning and memory abilities across the lifespan, starting with infants. A human can start to learn in a mother’s stomach before birth. The human uterus is surprisingly a noisy place taking in all the sounds that they hear such as maternal talk, outside noises and heartbeats from the mother. Something that I did not know is, around 25 weeks of gestational age, a fetus’s brain and sense organs are sufficiently developed for the fetus to start perceiving and learning about the sounds they hear. I think that is interesting that a baby can pick up sounds from the outside.
Quality of life cannot be similar during late adulthood for all individual. Starting from childhood will determine the type of life a person will live. Cultural, religious, and social factors from early childhood can also influence one’s life in late adulthood. In comparison, a child born into a wealthy family, well brought up, good education, will probably live a better life than a child born into poverty, without proper education.
People with is discussed are unable to grow into full maturity. There boldly may grow about the maturity would be the same as a kid. when a person has this decade, they would hold on to their childhood as they grow up into adulthood, they would look like a man on the outside about boys in the inside. An example of this would be the movie big. The movie is about a 12 year old boy that turns into a 30 year old man.
There always comes a moment in a person 's life when one has to grow up, which is sometimes known as coming of age. The period is characterized by a young person who undergoes transition into an adult stage, thus learning to act and live like an adult. While the process of development occurs naturally as an individual advance of his age, it can also be influenced by occurrences, which force the person to grow faster. In most instances, the societal forces force a child to mature faster since one is acquainted with the responsibilities of an adult. For instance, during the civil war era, young people were forced into military so that they can join the war, this taking up the role of adults in the society.
Middle Adulthood During this stage in life, Erikson describes individuals in the generativity vs. stagnation stage (Capp, 2004). Individuals between the ages 40 to 65 have generally married, have a career and have their own families. Erikson refers to generativity as a concern of the next generation by guiding and establishing them.
These concepts are very important to the Late Adulthood state of development because as we understand them, we can begin to observe the declining physical health in these people and predict and prepare for the future health concerns that can arise. We can also take these idea and apply them to their emotional and mental health as well. If we are able to identify and recognize and look for certain behaviors, we can identify the quality and of the person’s life as well as their self esteem as they continue to age to help them progress through their age with confidence and
The transition from high school to early adulthood for many students is a struggle. The transition is considerably more complicated for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities (Swank & Huber, 2013). Swank and Huber (2013) continued by stating, these students face additional barriers as they transition to early adulthood due to the fact they may not qualify for other programs such as vocational rehabilitation once they have graduated to assist them in locating favorable employment. Gragoudas’ (2012) research found that students with disabilities may not have adequate skills for transitioning from high school life to post high school life. Lee and Carter (2012) found that many high functioning autistic youth’s academic and employment
Theories of late adulthood development are quite diverse in later adulthood than at any other age. They include self-theory, identity theory and stratification theory. The self-theory tries to explain the core self and search to maintain one’s integrity and identity. The older adults tend to integrate and incorporate their various experiences with their vision and mission for their respective community (Berger, 2008). Also, the older people tend to feel that their attitude, personalities and beliefs have remained in a stable state over their lives even as they acknowledge that physical changes have taken place in their bodies.
As one matures, so will their identity. For example, from when one is six to sixteen, many things about them will have changed
This resulted that emerging adult may not be as healthy as it was perceived (Fatusi & Hindin, 2010). With that, researchers had also found that majority of the bad health habits, such as inactivity, obesity and poor diet, which started in adolescence stage increased as the young people progress to emerging adult. Therefore, this highlights the importance of having a regular exercise which not only improves physical health but mental as well such as improvement in self-concept, reduction in anxiety and depression (Santrock, 2013). Cognitive development in emerging adult is relatively similar to adolescent’s though Piaget did affirm that emerging adult’s thinking are more quantitatively advanced as they carry a greater wealth of knowledge and especially so for a specific area (Santrock, 2013).
The physical development of late adulthood is defined by a dramatic loss and decline of physical strength, determination, and abilities as they near the end of their
DEVELOPMENT PSYCHOLOGY: REFLECTIVE ESSAY In life of an individual there are several developmental changes or events which occur as continuity of span of life. Some of life developmental stages include infantile, adolescence, maturity, and adulthood. These phases have biological, social, psychological and physiognomic reasons to which an individual completed the course of life. Psychological analysis upon the developmental stages include the focus on characterization, demarcation and the social interaction of individual’s life (Baltes & Schaie, 2013).
It is a well known fact that as we grow older the effects of ageing becomes increasingly visible in our bodies. - We are more prone to infections as our immune system becomes weakened. - Our energy levels also get much lower. - Our stomachs struggle to digest the delicacies we eat properly and we easily get fat. - Also, our skin loses the touch of vitality we are accustomed to seeing as it shows signs of cracks, dryness and paleness.
Ageing is multidimensional change involving the physical, social as well as psychological aspects for an individual. Old age is generally an irreversible process, chronological, and a universal phenomenon and a challenge to everyone, who reaches it irrespective of sex, economic background, social background, race, ethnicity, profession, occupation, religion, skill or learning. Age can be also described as a progressive decline of the physical and mental function resulting in a simultaneous decline in both the capacity of body to maintain physiological balance as well as adaptability of the individuals to various stresses there by consequently increasing the chances of illness and mortality ( Marpady &et al, 2012) Neetu (2013) put aging by citing Becker (1959) as a complex process which includes anatomical, physiological, psychological and even social and economic changes. Randhawa (1987) stated aging by citing Becker (1959) in that ageing consists of two simultaneous components anabolic building up and catabolic breaking down. In the middle years there is an essential balance between expansion and decay, while growth predominates in youth; degenerative changes which start occurring very clearly in life pre-dominate in the late life span.
