Developing and Aging
ACROSS THE LIFESPAN


Biology 266     —     Life Span part 3

ADULTHOOD:
  • Adult Individuality
  • Adult brains, college, intimacy, physical health, cognitive development
  • World of work, careers
    • Choosing an occupation or career:
      • Family farms, family-run businesses: children learn while growing up
      • More often: children learn outside the home (at school, or watching adults at work, or summer jobs)
  • Intimacy, flexibility vs inflexibility, personality
  • Adult relationships:
    • Friendship and love
    • Lifestyle variations (single, married, LGBTQ)
    • Cultural differences
    • Types of families
    • Divorce, remarriage
  • Work and family life:
    • Work and occupational choice, career satisfaction
    • Gender, ethnicity, bias, discrimination
    • Changing jobs, job security and insecurity
    • Family obligations
    • Leisure activities
  • Midlife changes:
    • Midlife physical changes incl. reproductive changes
    • Mature intelligence and cognition, lifelong learning
    • Midlife personality, transitions in family life


FURTHER DETAIL:

Adulthood & Relationships       Work, Family, Midlife



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