AP PSYCHOLOGY

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

ADULTHOOD PHYSICAL COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Currently, developmentalists who ascribe to the normative-stage model believe that people
A
probably develop very little after age 50.
B
continue to develop through their thirties, but undergo only minimal changes thereafter.
C
continue to follow a sequence of age-related changes throughout adulthood.
D
experience no further development after adolescence.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Which model describes human development as a universal sequence of age-related social and emotional changes? Dr. Dunn says that she supports Erik Erikson’s model of development, which assumes that people pass through a universal sequence of age-related social and emotional changes during the life span.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Emerging adulthood typically A) occurs between the ages of 18 and 25. The field of emerging adulthood has emerged because young adults are delaying marriage and focusing more on their careers and education.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Emerging Adulthood” is a term used to describe a period of development spanning from about ages 18 to 29, experienced by most people in their twenties in Westernized cultures and perhaps in other parts of the world as well.

Detailed explanation-4: -Erikson identified “virtues” for each of his eight stages, and the virtue emerging when one achieves generativity is “care”. Erikson believed that those in middle adulthood should “take care of the persons, the products, and the ideas one has learned to care for” (Erikson, 1982, p. 67).

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