Characteristics Of Emerging Adulthood

There are two different types of motor skills, gross motor skills and fine motor skills. Gross motor skills are more likely to develop first because it includes activities that involve large muscles. An example of a gross motor skill is when my son first learned how to lift his head and eventually sit up straight on his own. The second type of motor skill is a fine motor skill. Fine motor skills are movements that require the ability to use smaller muscles to perform finely coordinated activities. For example, an infant learning how to grasp with his/her hands and fingers. My son had a security blanket with a frog on it, when his fine motor skills developed, he could hold onto the frogs little arm. Gross motor skills are more emphasized my …show more content…
This period of development was broken down into five different aspects by Jeffrey Arnett in Emerging adulthood: A new feature of 21st Century Society Professor. The five different aspects that Arnett discusses of this age range are that this stage is the age of instability, age of identity exploration, age of self-focus, age of feeling in between, and age of possibilities. Each of these features can help to come to an understanding of what emerging adulthood looks like. (H, …show more content…
The age of instability is described as the time right after high school when there are a lot of changes in their life such as jobs or where they live. The age of identity exploration is when the emerging adult is discovering who they are as a person, what sparks their interest and what they want out of life. The age of self-focus, not to be confused with selfishness, is the ability to focus on their beliefs and not what their parents and their environment has forced onto them. The age of feeling in between is a feature because the emerging adult is no longer considered a child, but does not feel like a full-on adult. The age of possibilities is a feature because emerging adults are very optimistic that the future has something good in store for them. (Munsey, 2006)
This is the fourth stage that supports the nature side of the debate. Emerging adulthood can be looked at a stage of a person’s life where they are not completely developed enough to have the abilities to function as an adult. Their biological development is as if it has slowed down and is trying to catch back up in order for the emerging adult to have the capability to process cognitively and socially as an