Question

Evaluate whether midlife entails a crisis in development according to each of the adult stage theories.

Answer 1

According the Piaget’s cognitive development theories, Kohlberg’s moral development theory, we can see the midlife effects on the process of development. The midlife entails crisis in development because this age experiences various physical and emotional changes and reduced passion which help this stage to create development crisis, midlife belongs to transition between more energetic to less energetic which enables lack of attention as well as memory development. Midlife also experiences changes in interests and lack of curiosity so that a mid-aged person shows slow but steady mental and physical development. With the comparison of early age, the mid age person experiences target oriented learning rather than multi-dimensional learning so that development process take places on single direction which seems to be less developed than young age.

The higher level of development occurs in early age so that if we compare to early age we may find less development than other stages.

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