Question

Week 7 Wrap-Up

Objectives:

1. Apply cognitive theory during middle adulthood.
2. Discuss the types of development in middle adulthood.

What was your favorite objective from week 7 and why? What did you find most challenging in week 6, and how did you overcome that challenge? Please provide specific examples.

Answer 1

Apply cognitive theory during middle adulthood.

During middle adulthood:

(1)Decrements in psychometric and cognitive abilities start to occur prior to age 60, but such reliable decrement can be found for all abilities by 74 years of age.

(2)In short, decreases in cognitive abilities begin in the sixth decade and gain increasing significance from that point on.

(3)In middle adulthood there is a trade-off, with some cognitive and physical decreases of varying degrees.

(4)The cognitive mechanics of processing speed, often referred to as fluid intelligence, physiological lung capacity, and muscle mass, are in relative decline.

(5)However, knowledge, experience and the increased ability to regulate our emotions can compensate for these loses.

Discuss the types of development in middle adulthood.

Following are the types of development in middle adulthood:

• accepting and adjusting to physiological changes
• aging process becomes more apparent
• eyes lose their ability to adjust to objects at varying distances, known as presbyopia.
• Hearing also further declines
• Skin continues to dry out and is prone to more wrinkling, particularly on the sensitive face area.
• Age spots and blood vessels become more apparent as the skin continues to dry and get thinner.
• reaching and maintaining satisfaction in one's occupation
• adjusting to and possibly caring for aging parents
• helping teenage children to become responsible adults
• achieving adult social and civic responsibility
• developing leisure‐time activities

What was your favorite objective from week 7 and why?

My favorite objective from Week 7 was to learn about adolescent cognitive development and psychology.

Reason: I personally feel that during adolescence and teenage period, a person faces major problems and upheavals in life, society etc.

What did you find most challenging in week 6, and how did you overcome that challenge? Please provide specific examples.

In week 6, I was not well and I had to study & prepare for the examination for Psychological development phases. This gave me some sort of challenge but finally I am now up to mark.

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