Adulthood and Aging

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Adulthood and Aging

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Module Overview

• Early Adulthood Transitions and the Social Clock
• Physical Changes and Transitions
• Cognitive Changes and Transitions
• Social Changes and Transitions

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Early Adulthood Transitions and the Social Clock

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Periods of Adulthood
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Social Clock

• The culturally preferred timing of social events
  such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
• The best timing
  for certain life
  events
• The timing varies
  from culture to
  culture.

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Emerging Adulthood

• A period from the late teens to the mid-twenties
  (and sometimes later), bridging the gap between
  adolescent dependence and full independence and
  responsible adulthood.

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Five Features of Emerging Adulthood

• Identity exploration
• Instability
• Self-focus

• Age of feeling between
• Age of possibilities

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Physical Changes and Transitions

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Physical Changes and Transitions Middle
Adulthoods Physical Changes

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Menopause

• When the menstrual cycle ends
• also refers to the biological changes a woman
  experiences as her ability to reproduce declines.
• Usually occurs between age 45 and 55
• Does not usually lead to depression

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Physical Changes and Transitions Later
Adulthoods Physical Changes

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Physical Changes Vision
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Physical Changes Sense of Smell
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Physical Changes Hearing
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Physical Changes and Transitions Diseases
Related to Aging

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Alzheimers Disease

• A progressive and irreversible brain disorder
  characterized by gradual deterioration of memory,
  reasoning, language, and finally, physical
  functioning.

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Senile Dementia

• Mental disintegration that accompanies
  alcoholism, tumor, stroke, aging, and most often,
  Alzheimer's disease.

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Senile Dementia
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Cognitive Changes and Transitions

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Cognitive Changes and Transitions Memory

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Aging and Memory
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Cognitive Changes and Transitions Intelligence

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Fluid Intelligence

• The ability to reason speedily and abstractly.
• Can be used to solve novel logic problems
• Declines as people get older

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Crystallized Intelligence

• Accumulated knowledge and verbal skills.
• Tends to
  increase with
  age

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Age and Verbal/Nonverbal Intelligence
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Social Changes and Transitions

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Social Changes and Transitions College Majors,
Work and Happiness

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College Majors

• Most college students
• change their initial major field
• Cannot accurately predict the career they will
  have in later life
• Change careers once they enter the work force

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Social Changes and Transitions Love and Marriage

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Commitment to Love

• An important factor in adult happiness
• Lasting love includes
• Intimate self-disclosure
• Shared emotional and material support
• Similar interests and
  values

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Commitment to Children

• Children result in a change in the marital
  relationship
• Potential disagreement on the division of labor
  with children

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Empty Nest

• The change married couples go through as a result
  of their children leaving home
• Not necessarily a negative event for couples

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Social Changes and Transitions A Lifetime of
Well-Being

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Overall Life Satisfaction

• Most studies show the elderly as happy and
  satisfied with life.
• People tend to mellow with age.
• Most regrets focus
  on what the person
  didnt do rather than
  mistakes they have
  made in life.

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Overall Life Satisfaction
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Social Changes and Transitions Dying and Death

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Reactions to Death

• Reactions to death are different from culture to
  culture.
• Attitudes toward death and dying are changing in
  the United States. --more
  openness
  --facing death with
  dignity hospice helps

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