Psychology Week 6:Whowell
This week's reading was about introduction to adulthood and middle adulthood. I found a lot of things interesting. The first thing that stuck out to me was the insert about american rights of passage. I think I have seen or experienced a lot of these myself already. Events such as prom, sweet 16s, confirmations, sororities, and getting a car were such defining events in my life. There were also things, that I personally have not yet to experience like getting married, or having a baby. I think a lot of people almost fantasies about these things that have happened to them. The events become huge momentous things that define our life by, and people look back at as golden ages. Examples of physical changes that happen during your introduction to adulthood is reaching your maximum height, or I n terms of speed and strength adults reach their peak condition at this time. This chapter also talks about physical fitness, which I think is huge for young adults right now everyone I know has a gym membership, or some type of physical fitness regime they are into. Chapter 9 talks about the feminist movement where people are seeking to establish equality for women in all aspects of life, this movement is supported by lots of celebrities. This makes me think about the women's march that was just performed a couple months ago in the amount of people who came out to support equality for women, like pay taxation and feminine products and things of that nature. I think feminism has grown over the years and I just include women working in the same position as men's but all of her treatment of women which is a valid issue. Individuality is brought up in this chapter is well which is when we develop our own special personality which is separate from my parents or teachers or even her own behavior, we try to become the best versions of ourselves. Erikson talks about this period of life is intimacy versus isolation, where one shows their identity to others to develop a strong partnership even though sacrifices and compromises need to be made. Those who are unsure of their identity and are vulnerable to any criticism of it tend to isolate themselves and be a lone wolf. This chapter talks about marriage, and gives a sadistic that in 2007 the average age of the nude woman is 25.6 years old as a man is 27.5, however again I think these are superlow. I think if the survey was done in 2017, the ages would be a lot higher. Millennial have been shown to wait later in life to get married, I would still say late twenties but closer to thirty.
Chapter 10 was about the middle adulthood, something instead up to me in this chapter was physical development and how this is one of the first signs of aging women tend to take more preventative healthcare test like mammograms. A bigger focus tends to be on cholesterol levels and high blood pressure and maintaining a healthy diet disease. Diets become a huge focus of creating healthy habits limiting the use of coffee and alcohol to maintain a good lifestyle. However an interesting fact I read in the chapter was that the CDC state 75% of adults age 50 to 64 do not get the recommended screening exams and immunizations. This does not shock me, my father who is about 53 hates doctors. He is diabetic and argues with the doctors that he does not need to maintain a lower cholesterol level than a person who is not diabetic. His reasoning for this is just because, no scientific reasoning just because. I think with age people become scared of finding out bad things that could possibly happen so instead they just avoid it. The five factor model of personality is introduced to the structures well the five factors being openness, consciousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Say someone was extroversion, that is being sociable or retiring, fun-loving or supper or affection or reserved, they would typically stay that way throughout their life. Divorce is covered in this chapter as well to do the longer you are married the less likely you will be to be divorced. The last thing that stuck out to me is in old age family becomes more consistent, siblings relationship have the potential to grow stronger and they are the relationships that have endured through their lifetime. I can definitely see this as being true, my sister and brother are probably my two best friends. I know that as I get older that relationship will continue to grow.
Chapter 10 was about the middle adulthood, something instead up to me in this chapter was physical development and how this is one of the first signs of aging women tend to take more preventative healthcare test like mammograms. A bigger focus tends to be on cholesterol levels and high blood pressure and maintaining a healthy diet disease. Diets become a huge focus of creating healthy habits limiting the use of coffee and alcohol to maintain a good lifestyle. However an interesting fact I read in the chapter was that the CDC state 75% of adults age 50 to 64 do not get the recommended screening exams and immunizations. This does not shock me, my father who is about 53 hates doctors. He is diabetic and argues with the doctors that he does not need to maintain a lower cholesterol level than a person who is not diabetic. His reasoning for this is just because, no scientific reasoning just because. I think with age people become scared of finding out bad things that could possibly happen so instead they just avoid it. The five factor model of personality is introduced to the structures well the five factors being openness, consciousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Say someone was extroversion, that is being sociable or retiring, fun-loving or supper or affection or reserved, they would typically stay that way throughout their life. Divorce is covered in this chapter as well to do the longer you are married the less likely you will be to be divorced. The last thing that stuck out to me is in old age family becomes more consistent, siblings relationship have the potential to grow stronger and they are the relationships that have endured through their lifetime. I can definitely see this as being true, my sister and brother are probably my two best friends. I know that as I get older that relationship will continue to grow.
Great points about rites of passages. In my opinion people forget the hard work and challenges that go into truly becoming an adult and feel that if you go through certain rites of passages you get your "welcome to adulthood" card. It does show how culturally defined adulthood is when there are universals most of us shared that we can commonly identity with.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed how you related the text to your own experiences in life. It was a great balance of textual evidence and personal relation. I do agree that people are waiting to get married later it seems. In talking to my parents it seems that the age was younger and more people got married right out of college. Now it seems a larger majority are waiting until closer to 30. I think this might correlate with the fact that people are finding their career at a later age too. I feel that people feel if they can barely support themselves and their job situation is shaky then adding another person may not be the best idea. This may be the reason why they are waiting until they have a stable enough job that they think will support a family.
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