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Axia College Material Appendix F For each of three developmental domains: physical, cognitive, and social/personality, identify two major changes or challenges associated with that developmental stage (adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood). |Stage of Development |Physical Development |Cognitive Development |Social/Personality Development | |Adolescence |Both Males and Females |Logical cognitive assessment |Most adolescents work to free | | |experience significant changes |becomes possible during this |themselves from parental control.| | |in their bodies from hormone |stage. Most adolescents become |This often results in conflict | | |changes. These include body |cognitively egocentric and feel |since they act out emotionally | | |growth and development of sexual|that they differ from others in |against the very parents that | | |organs. |many ways, demanding privacy and|have taught them the values they | | | |feeling insecure. |now hold. High risk behaviors | | | | |hold interest for teens at this | | | | |age. | |Young Adulthood |The body is at its peak |Cognitive processes peak during |In this stage the individual is | | |physically and it has high |this stage. This creates a false|striving to find his or her | | |endurance and stamina levels. |sense that the individual knows |direction and determine his/her | | | |best even when experience |best partners. Self-Identity is | | | |dictates otherwise. |being redefined. Marriage, | | | | |procreation, and career issues | | | | |all surface during this stage. | |Middle Adulthood |Women go through menopause, Men |Memory begins to decline-The |Age 30 transition, finding your | | |go through andropause, |information our brain processes |way in life, like a new | | |testosterone production begans |slows down-Better ability to use|perspective.-More concentration | | |to decline.-women who have not |logic. |on the future.-A need to be more | | |reached menopause, starts losing| |productive in life | | |precious time to have | |occurs.-mid-life crisis, where | | |children-signs of aging occurs, | |you realize your life is half-way| | |wrinkles or gray hair.-hearing | |passed by. | | |and sensory starts to decline. | | | |Late Adulthood |During late adulthood (65 or | | | | |older) elasticity of the skin is| | | | |lost, the skin begins to wrinkle| | | | |more and the hair gets a lot | | | | |more grey. Also during this | | | | |time the body begins to lose the| | | | |way we react to fast movements. | | |