DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
ADULTHOOD PHYSICAL COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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Early adult
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Age 30 transition
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Settling down
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Mid-life transition
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Detailed explanation-1: -Levinson’s Life Structure Stages 3 through 5: Introspection In this phase, the individual commits to “settling down.” This can either be settling into a career or committing to marriage and family, depending on which role is central to the person’s identity.
Detailed explanation-2: -Levinson’s model contains five main stages. They are the pre-adulthood stage (age 0 – 22), the early adulthood stage (age 17 – 45), the middle adult stage (age 40 – 65), the late adulthood stage (age 60 – 85) and the late late adult stage (age 80 plus).
Detailed explanation-3: -Middle adulthood, or middle age, is the time of life between ages 40 and 65. During this time, people experience many physical changes that signal that the person is aging, including gray hair and hair loss, wrinkles and age spots, vision and hearing loss, and weight gain, commonly called the middle age spread.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Settling Down Period. During the Settling Down period, a man takes the changes, modifications, and choices he made during the Age 30 Transition, and deepens his commitment to them.