Psychological, Social, & Physiological Development from Young Adulthood to Old Age



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Psychological, Social, & Physiological Development from Young Adulthood to Old Age

Introduction

Psychological, social, and physiological development from young adulthood to the older age is a topic that comes under the discipline of developmental psychology. The psychology related to human development is the scientific area of study that is concerned about the changes that take place in human beings throughout their overall life span. The main focus of this study is on the children and infants, but the discipline has further extended to take in adult development, adolescences, aging, and the total life span of human beings. This discipline also explores about the changes that are related to other psycho-physiological processes; motor skills; cognitive development inclusive of moral understanding, conceptual understanding, and problem solving; language acquisition; personality, emotional, and social development; and identity formation and self-concept (Kaeberlin et al., 2008).

Aging is the accretion of changes in an individual over the life span. In humans, the process of aging is multi-dimensional and includes various perspectives of social, psychological, and physical changes. Some age dimensions mature cultivate and expand with time, whereas some other decreases over time. For instance, reaction time may slower with age, whereas the wisdom and knowledge related to world events may enlarge. Many researches in this regard show that even though later in lives of individuals, capacities exist for social, psychological, physical development and growth. The process of aging is a significant component of all the societies of human beings that reflect the biological transformations that take place, but also reflect the societal and cultural conventions. Age is deliberate chronologically, and the birthday of an individual is often a significant event, thus, the terminology of 'aging' is rather ambiguous. As per a rough estimation, about 100,000 individuals on a global record die every day due to any age-related causes. Chronological aging can also be differentiated from biological aging i.e. (the physical condition of an organism as its age increases), and social aging i.e. (age and cultural expectations of how they should act as their age increases). Such distinctions are often made between different populations of older people. Sometimes, divisions are made between the young old population (65 to 74 years of ages), the middle older population (75 to 84 years of ages), and the oldest old populations who are of 85plus ages. Thus, the problem is that, the functional age is not completely correlated with chronological age, i.e. two individuals regardless of being of similar ages may be different in their physical, psychological, and social capacities (Gatz et al., 2001).

In this paper, there will be some critiques on three different journal articles related to developmental psychology, and then interviewing with two adults (preferably older adults) will be conducted in order to compare them with the participants that were participated in the research articles. The main objective of this research paper is to seek out the integration that how the lives of older adults fit with ...