Adult Learning Essay

Attachment Theory. Attachment Theory is based on the findings and observation of John Bowlby. He studied a child’s bond with his or her caregiver and reactions of separation. The theory emphasizes the importance of these interactions. (Zastrow, C., & Kirst-Ashman, K, 2013) Mary Ainsworth, expanded on Bowlby’s theory by testing his ideas. She developed the Strange Situation a demonstrated episode of mother and child and his or her interactions with a stranger. The mother interacts with the…

Have you ever wonder why adolescence when portrayed in fictional media are seen as carefree? I other words reckless, irresponsible, or easily influenced by others and their environment. You should be asking yourself, is that how actual adolescence/teens act? Most fictional medias that are portraying adolescence/teen with the idea of being careless have the right idea. As an adolescence have a narrow mind making this one of the reasons why adolescence make carefree and bad decisions. This…

book, Hillbilly Elegy, that relates to today’s society and my own personal experiences is the inability to openly love and trust loved ones. In today’s society, the generation has commonly been described as “lost” or ‘confused”. Many teenagers and adults tend to struggle with trust. The reason being that relationships have been showcased in such a negative and cynical light which cause many people in today’s society tend to focus on the bad aspects of a relationship. Many people in today’s…

merely from the column on Iqbal in the newspaper. Alex Lin, a sixteen year old environmental activist from Westerly, Rhode Island, is another example of teen that became an activist from learning about a problem. After reading an article about Electronic Waste, better known as e-waste, in The New York Times and learning about how bad it was for the environment, Alex knew something had to be done about it. He began by gathering friends from his community service group, Westerly Innovations…

By the age of 70 years, smoking 30 cigarettes a day could lead to an equivalent of an extra 14 years of skin ageing. The Real Cost commercial, by the United States Food and Drug Administration, takes place at a convenient store. With the FDA creating this advertisement it shows that smoking is not just a local problem but a national one. A young teenage girl comes and tries to buy some cigarettes. However, she doesn’t have enough money so she rips of her skin to pay for them. Smoking is bad for…

someone else (even then experience shapes a person’s life) it is nearly impossible for Arnett’s theory to be applied because so many young adults are not accounted for in the research conducted. In order to further apply his concept, many more studies need to be performed in order to explore how culture impacts whether an individual is seen as an emerging adult. Culture plays a major role in the creation of “ethnic…

abuse to come forward and to raise awareness within the community of the need to keep children safe”. The program has been split into age appropriate modules and for the purposes of this essay we will be looking at the modules for years’ 4-8. The learning outcome for the program is for children to gain self-confidence and to also learn how to communicate in a safe and confident way. Children are taught how to make safe decisions and how to recognise an unsafe situation in either the real or…

Per Mary Ainsworth, children act differently when factors such as strangers, parent leaving, etc. The child is aware of what is going on and can, depending on the style, be afraid of what will happen when the parent leaves or if they will come back. Some children are even fearful of the stranger and will act completely different. IN the following paragraphs, I will answer the following questions: 1. Type A – Insecure Avoidant 2. Type B - Secure 3. Type C – Insecure Ambivalent/ Resistant 4.…

Have you ever wonder where the young adults are, or how to attract them to services? Why do young adults quit going to church American teens think about all of the culture. Because the language that they speak, music that they listen to. In different generation many people lives are different. Margaret Taylor writes, “Many young adults tend to think that the older generations tend to make judgments and assumptions about teenagers.” For example, Margaret Taylor said, “Typically based on the…

practicing something can only get someone so far and that practice alone can never make someone perfect. Maria reported on her interview with a psychology teacher named Zach Hambrick who said he spent at least a thousand hours of practicing golf as a young adult hoping to make it to the PGA, but instead found himself not making the cut for his college golf team. Maria proposes that there are many other factors that play a role in helping someone become extremely talented, or even a professional,…