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Adulthood

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Adolescence: Social Development
• Identity
o Ones sense of self ; the adolescents task is to solidify a sense
of self by testing and integrating various roles
Kohlberg’s Moral Ladder
o As moral developmental progresses, the focus of concern
moves from the self to the wider social world
Adulthood: Physical Development
• Menopause
o The time of natural cessation of menstruation
o Also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as
her ability to reproduce declines
• Alzheimer’s Disease
o No cure presently – they can prolong it though
o No evidence toward gender, etc bias for getting the disease
o It is usually fatal [forgetting how to breathe]
o It can not be diagnosed by a blood test – it can only be found
after death but you can assume through symptoms that a
person has it while living
• The aging senses
o About 70 yrs old
§ vision declines
§ Taste/ smell senses decline
§ Hearing decreases
o Around 70 – 75 yrs and older
§ Contribution to [fatal] Car accidents increase
§ Incidence of dementia
Adulthood: Cognitive Development
• Cross sectional study
o A study in which people of diff ages are compared with one
another
• Longitudinal study
o a study in which the same people are restudied and retested
over a period of time
• crystallized intelligence
o ones accumulated knowledge and verbal skills

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o tends to increase with age
fluid intelligence
o ones ability to reason speedily and abstractly
o tends to decrease during late adulthood
social clock
o the culturally preferred timing of social events
§ marriage [20s]
§ parenthood
§ retirement [50s]

THINKING ABOUT DEATH…
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Kubler-Ross : Stages of Dying
• Denial
o The person denies the diagnosis; insists that an error as been
made; seeks other more acceptable opinions or alternatives
• Anger
o The person now accepts the reality of the situation but
expresses envy and resentment towards those who will live to
the fulfill a plan or dream
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Bargaining
o The person desperately tries to buy time, negotiating with
doctors, family members, clergy, and God
• Depression
o A bargaining falls and time runs out, the person may succumb
to depression, lamenting failures and mistakes that can no
longer be corrected
• Acceptance
o Tired and weak, the person at last enters a state of quiet
expectation and submitting to fate
How should we treat the dying person?
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Greater empowerment
Recognition that the dying person remains a living person
Physical – don’t treat them like a machine; make sure physical
needs are met and that they are as comfortable as possible
Psychological
Social
Spiritual

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