Question

1. Complete the following:

• Read: Adult Development Stage Theory
• Read: Introduction to Lifespan Development (pp. 4-28) from Feldman, R. S. (2014). Development across the life span (7th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.
• Complete: Adult Development Timeline exercise (print and complete; this is not turned in)

2. Post to this Discussion Board.

• Describe your personal adult development timeline.
• Use Erikson's theory and compare when you achieved your developmental tasks to his theory.
• Reflect on the readings and provide a specific example(s) of how this learning will change your practice. For example, how does your understanding of the adult life cycle affect your approach to interacting with a 20-something patient or co-worker? A 50-something patient or co-worker?

Students should seek to connect their learning and reflection with the readings by providing references to the weekly readings. This means at least one in-text citation for the initial post.

Initial post due by Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. EST/EDT. Respond to the postings of two classmates by Friday at 11:59 p.m. EST/EDT.

Attention: I am 39 years old so you can use my age for the erikson developmental

Initial posts should be 100-plus words. Before posting, be sure to review the Discussion Board Rubric in the Course Overview section. This activity is worth 16 points.

1. Complete the following:

• Read: Adult Development Stage Theory
• Read: Introduction to Lifespan Development (pp. 4-28) from Feldman, R. S. (2014). Development across the life span (7th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.
• Complete: Adult Development Timeline exercise (print and complete; this is not turned in)

2. Post to this Discussion Board.

• Describe your personal adult development timeline.
• Use Erikson's theory and compare when you achieved your developmental tasks to his theory.
• Reflect on the readings and provide a specific example(s) of how this learning will change your practice. For example, how does your understanding of the adult life cycle affect your approach to interacting with a 20-something patient or co-worker? A 50-something patient or co-worker?

Students should seek to connect their learning and reflection with the readings by providing references to the weekly readings. This means at least one in-text citation for the initial post.

Initial post due by Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. EST/EDT. Respond to the postings of two classmates by Friday at 11:59 p.m. EST/EDT.

Initial posts should be 100-plus words. Before posting, be sure to review the Discussion Board Rubric in the Course Overview section. This activity is worth 16 points.

1. Complete the following:

• Read: Adult Development Stage Theory
• Read: Introduction to Lifespan Development (pp. 4-28) from Feldman, R. S. (2014). Development across the life span (7th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.
• Complete: Adult Development Timeline exercise (print and complete; this is not turned in)

2. Post to this Discussion Board.

• Describe your personal adult development timeline.
• Use Erikson's theory and compare when you achieved your developmental tasks to his theory.
• Reflect on the readings and provide a specific example(s) of how this learning will change your practice. For example, how does your understanding of the adult life cycle affect your approach to interacting with a 20-something patient or co-worker? A 50-something patient or co-worker?

Students should seek to connect their learning and reflection with the readings by providing references to the weekly readings. This means at least one in-text citation for the initial post.

Initial post due by Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. EST/EDT. Respond to the postings of two classmates by Friday at 11:59 p.m. EST/EDT.

Initial posts should be 100-plus words. Before posting, be sure to review the Discussion Board Rubric in the Course Overview section. This activity is worth 16 points.

Answer 1

Describe the personal adult development timeline

Physical Development

Early Adulthood (Ages 20–40)

When we achieve early adulthood, our physical development is finished, in spite of the fact that our tallness and weight may increment somewhat. In early adulthood, our physical capacities are at their pinnacle, including muscle quality, response time, tactile capacities, and cardiovascular working. Most expert competitors are at the highest point of their amusement amid this stage, and numerous ladies have youngsters in the early-adulthood years.

Middle Adulthood (Ages 40–65)

Amid center adulthood, the maturing procedure turns out to be progressively obvious. Around the age of 60, the eyes lose their capacity to acclimate to objects at different separations, known as presbyopia. A great many people between the ages of 40 and 60 will need some type of restorative focal points for vision shortfalls. Moderately aged grown-ups are additionally at higher hazard than more youthful grown-ups for certain eye issues, for example, glaucoma. Hearing additionally further decreases: 14 percent of moderately aged Americans have hearing issues. Skin keeps on drying out and is inclined to all the more wrinkling, especially on the delicate face region. Age spots and veins become increasingly clear as the skin keeps on drying and get more slender. The muscle-to-fat proportion for the two people additionally changes all through center adulthood, with an aggregation of fat in the stomach territory.

Cognitive development in Adulthood

Early Adulthood

Early adulthood, comprehension starts to settle, achieving a crest around the age of 35. Early adulthood is a period of relativistic reasoning, in which youngsters start to wind up mindful of more than shortsighted perspectives on right versus off-base. They start to take a gander at thoughts and ideas from different edges and comprehend that an inquiry can have more than one right (or wrong) answer. The requirement for specialization results in businesslike reasoning—utilizing rationale to take care of certifiable issues while tolerating logical inconsistency, blemish, and different issues. At long last, youthful grown-ups build up a kind of aptitude in either training or vocation, which further upgrades critical thinking abilities and the limit with regards to inventiveness.

Middle Adulthood

Two types of knowledge—solidified and liquid—are the primary focal point of center adulthood. Our solidified insight is needy upon collected learning and experience—it is the data, aptitudes, and methodologies we have assembled all through our lifetime. This sort of knowledge will in general hold relentless as we age—truth be told, it might even improve. For instance, grown-ups show moderately stable to expanding scores on insight tests until their mid-30s to mid-50s (Bayley and Oden, 1955). Liquid insight, then again, is increasingly subject to essential data handling aptitudes and begins to decrease even preceding center adulthood. Psychological preparing speed backs off amid this phase of life, as does the capacity to take care of issues and separation consideration. Be that as it may, useful critical thinking aptitudes will in general increment. These abilities are important to take care of genuine issues and make sense of how to best accomplish an ideal objective.

2. Use Erikson's theory and compare when you achieved your developmental tasks to his theory.

ERICSON’S PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY

Stage 1: Trust vs. mistrust – (Birth to 1 year)

• Infant learn to trust parents who care for them and sensitive to their needs.

Stage 2: Autonomy vs. shame (1 to 3 years) –

• During this stage, toddlers use their new motor and mental skills. They want to be independent and do things for themselves.
• At this age, toddlers start to become self-sufficient. They need to learn to choose and decide for themselves. To do this, toddlers need a loving, supportive environment.
• Positive opportunities for self feeding, toileting, dressing, and exploration will result in autonomy, or independence.
• On the other hand, overprotection or lack of adequate activities results in self-doubt, poor achievement, and shame.

Stage 3: initiative vs. guilt ( 3 to 6 years)–

• This a period of energetic and active imagination.
• The child can develop a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction in his or her activities.
• Children at this stage need to develop a sense of purpose. This happens when adults direct children’s urges toward acceptable social practices. As the child oversteps his limits he or she experiences a feeling of guilty.

Stage 4: industry vs. inferiority (6 to 12 yrs) –

• At this time, children enjoy planning and carrying out projects.
• This helps them learn society’s rules and expectations.
• During this stage, children gain approval by developing intellectual skills such as reading, writing, and math.
• The way family, neighbors, teachers, and friends respond to children affects their future development.
• Children can become frustrated by criticism discouragement, or if parents demand too much control.

Stage 5: identity vs. role confusion (12 to 15 years) –

• In this stage two tasks are who they are and what is their place in this world.
• Success makes individual well adjusted and individual who have not made any commitment to any occupation inferiority feeling may develop.

Stage 6: intimacy vs. absorption (late adolescence) –

• In this stage adult forms intimate relationships with others.
• They develop a sense of intimacy with peers.
• Failure to develop such intimacy results in psychological isolation.

I am In Adolescence stage

Adolescence is the improvement arranges among adolescence and grown-up hood amid which numerous physical, psychological, and social changes happen.

•Most emotional organic changes happen amid this stage. Major physical and sexual changes and their relating normal scope of ages for both genders are appeared as follows.

•The psycho-social advancement arrange amid immaturity is named as the character versus perplexity organize. Amid this stage:

•The puberty brings up the character issue (who am I?)

•External weights are expected to:

* Physical change9 Height And weight)

* Societal desire transforms (they consider themselves as grown-ups, yet they are financially reliant on their folks)

•There is decrease in dependence on grown-ups for data with a move toward utilizing the companion bunch as wellspring of social judgment.

•To maintain a strategic distance from job perplexity suitable good example arrangement is vital.

Reflect on the readings

• Physical changes
• Rapid physical growth
• Body starts to look more like an adult
• Mental changes
• Begins to question oneself
• Starts to enjoy participating in adult conversation
• Emotional changes
• Feeling very quickly from being happy to being lonely.
• Sees people as having needs like his.
• Social changes
• Friends views become more important