Physical: peak of performance

Social: changing, assessing, ticking social clock

Cognitive: education and career training

Generativity (Erikson)- creating, aiding the next generation

- prevents stagnation

Developmental tasks of young adults:

This is the preferred timing in which people should leave home, marry, have children etc. It has loosened over the last 20 years, however many women still feel pressured to have children before they are physically unable.

Senses less sharp, hearing, taste etc., reaction time slower, brittle bones and easily broken

degenerative brain disorder

Some people in late adulthood occasionally experience memory loss, but most memory loss is normal. Many older adults do have some general decline in intellectual ability, as measured by scores on intelligence tests. It’s worse when it comes to performing a task quickly. A majority of older age people have no serious decline in intellectual skills.

________ aids memory by stimulating the development of neural connections and by promoting neurogenesis, the birth of new nerve cells, in the hippocampus.

_______believed that people in late adulthood are challenged by the maintenance of ego integrity - the belief that life is meaningful and worthwhile even when physical abilities are not what they used to be a persons with ego integrity is able to accept their approaching death as part of life. It’s a big challenge. If seniors can meet this challenge, they can be happy. If not, they risk falling into despair because they feel that they are losing everything that matters.

stereotyping and discriminating basis of a person's age. Similar to racism and sexism, involves holding negative stereotypes about people of different ages. In this case, is a refers to older people.

1. Denial

2. Anger

3. Bargaining

4. Depression

5. Acceptance

When the individual recognizes that denial cannot continue, it becomes frustrated, especially at proximate individuals. Certain psychological responses of a person undergoing this phase would be: "Why me? It's not fair!"; "How can this happen to me?"; '"Who is to blame?"; "Why would this happen?".

"It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it, I may as well prepare for it."; "Nothing is impossible."

In this last stage, individuals embrace mortality or inevitable future, or that of a loved one, or other tragic event. People dying may precede the survivors in this state, which typically comes with a calm, retrospective view for the individual, and a stable condition of emotions.

Adolescence is a state of stress, confusion, and frustration.Being an adolescent was like being a full grown animal in a cage. Seeing freedom but not knowing when it will come or how they will handle it.

Stating that adolescents are in a state of a great storm of stress and are confused, troubled and highly frustrated.

Adolescence is a highly enjoyable time of life. Adolescence is a highly enjoyable time of life, and not at all a storm of stress as others had suggested

Stress is a by product of an industrialized society, and proposed that culture might play a role in development.