Write a 3-4 pages paper documenting your human's physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development during early adulthood. Be sure to refer to and cite a variety of theoretical perspectives that we are studying this week in our readings.
Summarize what went well and what difficulties your human experienced during this period. Consider how race/ethnicity, class, and gender may have influenced these experiences, and remember to carry the events of your human's previous developmental stages through into what you write this week.
Some ideas might include, but are not limited to the following:
Which of Erikson's crises has your human encountered so far, and how has he or she resolved them?
Has your human reached the Achieving stage of Schaie's cognitive development yet, and what is some evidence of this?
How would you rate your human's stage of moral development, and what is some evidence of this?
How might this be conceptualized differently based on your human's gender (think Kohlberg vs. Gilligan)?
How might you describe your human's personality using the five factor model?
What did your human decide to do after completing high school? Did he or she go to college, or start working full-time?
What were some of your human's the biggest challenges in transitioning out of his or her parents' home and into work or college?
Did your human get involved in any serious romantic relationships? Did they get married?
Did your human have any children?
How would you describe your human's relationships with members of their family of origin?
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