PS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Occupational Segregation, Infertility, Childlessness
Developmental Psychology - Lecture 9
Early Adulthood - Chapters 12 and 13
Learning Objectives
- To understand
Cognitive development
Moral development
Timing of events and crisis theories
Education and Career development
Friendship and intimacy
Lifestyle choices and marriage
Impact of and choices in parenthood
Issues in Young Adulthood
- Age: 18-40
- Transitions
Education?
Relationships?
Children?
Career?
Post-Formal Thought
- Piaget’s formal operations stage
Final stage of cognitive development
Focus on logical-mathematical thought
Focused more on abstract thinking
Our experience shapes how we think logically
Our emotions drive our thought
A whole range of complex factors shape us and thats how we shape our realities
- Limitations?
- Post-formal thought
Knowledge is relative, non-absolute
Accept and synthesise contradictions
Knowledge is not absolute thought - it is relative
Multiple truths
Different parties focus on different approaches
Increase collective responsibility around others in a relational setting
Different viewpoints
No one is more right or more wrong
Appreciate different sides of the debate
Accepting that knowledge is relative
We accept contradiction and paradoxes in our thinking
Respect values, standards and attitudes
Shaie’s Stages of Adult Thikig
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Adult Moral Reasoning
- Kohlberg’s stages
- No social or emotional context
- Gilligan’s stages
- Survival orientation, conventional care, integrated care
- Gender differences
- Differences in moral reasoning arise from different experiences rather than sex differences
- May reflect differences in power
- Moral voice
Timing of Events
- Timing of events theories
- Social clocks
On time – following the social timetable
Off time – out of phase with peers
- We take in social ideologies to see if we are ‘on time’ with the timing of events of ldevelopment
Crisis Theories - Erikson
- Intimacy vs. isolation
Crisis Theories - Vaillant
- Vaillant - Harvard “Grant Study”
- Development is lifelong
- Sustained relationships shape lives
- Adaptive mechanisms determine mental health
- Study did not include women
- How might the findings apply to women?
Crisis Theories - Leviso’s Seasos
- Found 3 seasons
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Document Summary
Knowledge is not absolute thought - it is relative. A whole range of complex factors shape us and thats how we shape our realities. Increase collective responsibility around others in a relational setting. No one is more right or more wrong. We accept contradiction and paradoxes in our thinking. Differences in moral reasoning arise from different experiences rather than sex differences. Off time out of phase with peers. We take in social ideologies to see if we are on time" with the timing of events of ldevelopment. Exposure to new ideas, beliefs, demands leads to cognitive growth, new thinking patterns. Highest for ages 18 - 24, then 25 - 44. Studies suggest that demographic characteristics play a major role in completion and cause of attrition is complex. Still most likely choice for adult partnerships. Choice based on love: one cultural form individualistic cultures. Gendered division of household tasks continues, in altered form. Australian divorce rate 46%; nz 47%
