Question

Adult Development & Learning in the Workplace Select some aspect of adult development to research. Ideally, you should select the same topic you used for the journal summary critique that way you have one source already fully researched. This paper will be due at the end of week 8. Suggested Topics (you are not limited by this list): Select one stage/age of the adult life span and one developmental dimension (i.e. physical, cognitive, emotional, social). Select a psychologist (i.e. Freud, Bandura, Kohlberg, Maslow, Rogers, Erikson, Sternberg, Jung, Adler, Skinner) and report on the psychologist’s contributions to the field. Marriage Divorce Changing roles of men and women Memory and Aging Personality Development Emotional Intelligence Any mental disorder (i.e. depression, alcoholism, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder). Any topic related to the workplace or career development

Answer 1

• Jean piget was known for his important and pioneer work in the field of psychology in child development.He was a Swiss psychologist and epistemologist.

Constructive theory of Piaget state that people’s knowledge and perception are based on their experiences.
This theory consists theories of learning, methods of teaching, and reforms in education.
Main elements which create the development of new knowledge of an individual are assimilation and accommodation.
Assimilation causes absorption of new ideas into old experiences. On the other hand, accommodation refers to reframing new idea and word into mental capacity.

• Depression in adolescent girls is more common as compared to the boys.symptoms of sadness, sleeping problems, anxiety, feeling of disappointment and failure, self-dissatisfaction and self-blame, are very common in depressed adolescent girls. According to many studies, it is found that experience of depression is similar in both genders but girls show more symptoms as compare to boys adolescent.

• Alcoholism:

Alcoholism adversely affects health in many different ways.
There are the various short term and long term effects of alcoholism on health.
Most common short-term effects are dehydration and intoxication in a body, decrease motor skills, and euphoria etc.

On the other hand, most common long-term effects are liver and brain functioning due to intoxication, slurred speaking ability, slow reflexes, clumsiness, and decreased blood sugar level due to stimulation of insulin production.This can cause death to a diabetes patient.
According to WHO report in2014 alcoholism is responsible for about 3.3 million death (worldwide annually).
Besides its harmful effects on health. alcoholism . The harmful effects of alcoholism are countless and they are not only associated with the person who drinks but their surrounding and society.It is one of the main root cause many social problems including drunk driving accidents and sexual violence.
It not only harm socially but economically also because the cost of purchase of alcohol and medical treatment may lead to poverty, economic stability to the family.