PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY ADULTHOOD

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PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY
ADULTHOOD
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Initiation into Adulthood

• The Transition to Adulthood in the United States
• Religious
• Sexual
• Social
• Educational
• Economic

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Initiation into Adulthood

• Implications of the Lack of an Initiation
  Ceremony
• Adultoid adolescents who are less sure of
  their identity and less self-reliant than other
  adolescents of the same age

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Physical Development

• The Peak Is Reached
• Physical changes slow down
• Organ Reserve Part of the total capacity of our
  bodys organs that we do not normally need to use

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Aging and Athletic Performance
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Motor Performance in Adulthood

• Athletic skills peak between 20 and 35
• Decline gradually until 60s or 70s, then faster

• Continued training slows loss
• Keep more vital capacity, muscle, response speed

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Exercise

• Only one third get enough
• At least 30 minutes moderate five or more days a
  week
• More often, more vigorous is better
• Around one third of North Americans are inactive
• Women
• Low SES

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Physical Development

• The Effect of Lifestyle on Health
• Choices of Food
• Use of Alcohol
• Use of Tobacco
• Physical Fitness

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Substance Use in Early Adulthood

• Peaks from 19-22 years, then declines
• But up to 20 ages 21-25 are substance abusers

• Cigarettes, chewing tobacco
• Alcohol
• Binge drinking
• Drugs
• Marijuana
• Stimulants
• Prescription drugs
• Party drugs

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Cognitive Development

• Intellectual/Ethical Development
• Dualism
• Relativism
• Commitment

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Cognitive Development

• Womens Way of Knowing
• Silence
• Received knowledge
• Subjective knowledge
• Procedural knowledge
• Constructed knowledge

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Patterns of Work

• The Phenomenon of the Dual-Career Family
• Men helping out more at home
• Paternal child care
• Home-based work