Adult development

Adult Development Case Study I. Introduction: For my case study I interview my grandmother my fathers mother. She is a sixty-three years old widow with 7 children, two of which are stepchildren. My grandmother currently resides in a small town called Pinkard in Alabama. She lives with her youngest son and nephew. During my interview we discussed the three topics love, education, and parenting II. Body: LOVE My case study took place over the phone since my grandmother lives 4 hours away. During the interview the first question I asked my grandmother was has she ever been in love. I chose this topic because of the journal entry in class. I wanted to see her point of view versus mine. Since she is her late adulthood stage…

physical, cognitive, and socioemotional developments of a fellow college student, Matt, who is a twenty-year-old early adult. Matt currently has a girlfriend who also goes to Dordt College, however, he does not have any children. The interview was conducted in the lobby of North Hall at Dordt College, which provided the most privacy and an appropriate environment to conduct a forty-five minute interview. Prior to the beginning of the interview, I composed a list of two additional questions that…

Assignment Two: Young Adult Development Introduction What would you do if you found yourself at the losing end of a business deal? If everything you worked so hard for unraveled right before your very eyes. Would you pack up everything you knew and move thousands of miles away or would you press forward? Guy Pehrrson did not have to imagine this scenario because at the young age of eighteen he watched as his precious crop of flax came crashing down. The decision was made, Pehrrson would…

innocence. House (2013) contends that scientifically, children differ from their adult counterparts in significant ways. One way that a child differs of an adult is in brain development. Rebecca House (2013) notes that research has found that the last portion of the brain to develop is the prefrontal cortex. It is responsible for human rationality and impulsivity. Because is area isn’t developed until late adolescence, adolescents generally engage in reward seeking behavior as well as riskier…

The UCLA Grant Study will allow us to take a fresh look at the Harvard Grant Study of Adult Development and it is our task to apply its findings to a new cohort of individuals who will make up the graduating classes of 2017 through 2021. We will be expanding our area of interest by analyzing the experiences of traditional versus transfer students. Therefore, we will be able to fully comprehend what resources must be provided on campus to help build a sense of community which offers a lasting…

Assignment 1 Read Daniel Levinson's (1986) American Psychologist article, "A Conception of Adult Development" (41, pp. 3–13). Respond to the following questions IN YOUR OWN WORDS. a. Define what Levinson means by the following terms: Life Course: Life course is the process of living, the idea of life history rather than case history. You have different courses within your life span. It’s generally a broad group such as child, teenager or pre adult, adult, and of course old. These groups…

us comprehend the formative way to deal with grown-up learning. Adult learning theories can be a developmental process that goes through stages. Additionally, perspectives or theories imply that they are taking into account the reason that adults go through stages. However, changes without stages given the idea that adults may experience a change in their life. Furthermore, in return hopefully those familiarities don 't arrive in a sequenced arrangement. In this paper, I will explain how…

There wasn’t much interest in studying the exposure of adult embryo to excess RA because we believed, although not confirmed that, once the anterior-most parts of the adult embryo have developed, RA acid might not have an obvious detrimental effect in preventing its development. Our assertion was however proven otherwise by Marshall et al., 1996, who demonstrated that RA treatment at later stages specifically leads to a ‘posteriorisation’ of rhombomeres (r) 2-3 to an r4-r5 identity. Moreover,…

controversial and most influencing novels of the 20th century. Salinger´s protagonist Holden Caulfield has had a decisive impact on the success of the novel and is widely considered as a symbol for teenage rebellion. The impeccable success of the novel is therefore mainly due to the development of a clear theme (One´s attempt to resist changes in life can result in the life´s downfall) connected with the struggles and searches of the protagonist throughout the novel. Holden, who was traumatized…

Levinson (1986) through a series of thorough interviews with both men and women developed a comprehensive theory of adult development. He proposed a theory based on a series of phases that adults’ experience as they develop. The highlight of Levinson’s theory is the life structure, which is the fundamental pattern of a person’s life at any particular time. An individual's life structure is generally formed by the social and physical surroundings, where for most individuals, life is primarily…