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Chapter 10
The Lives of Adults
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Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd
PPTs to accompany Claiborne & Drewery, Human Development
10-1
Focusing on adults at mid-life
What ages?
• Roughly mid-30s to around 60 • But no clear beginning or end
Cohorts have different life experiences • Baby boomers
- Large post-WW II population - NZ born 1946- 1972
• What defines YOUR cohort?
Diversity in adult lives
• Age of having a child or losing a parent will differ across people
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PPTs to accompany Claiborne & Drewery, Human Development
10-2
Do adults keep developing?
• No one universal plan for every person’s development
• ‘Stages’: very difficult to define for adults, so avoid this term!
• Erikson’s theory focuses on development through the lifespan, while Piaget and Freud stop at physiological maturity
• US-based research (e.g. Levinson 1978, 1996) has a social and cultural context that may not be so relevant here
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PPTs to accompany Claiborne & Drewery, Human Development 10-3
Discourses about adulthood
[Refresher on discourse: words and practices that seem to define reality in an unquestionable way]
• Adulthood is the goal of childhood and the end of playtime
• Adults are sensible, mature grown-ups
• Autonomy is the key to being an adult
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PPTs to accompany Claiborne & Drewery, Human Development 10-4
Physiological changes at mid-life
• Ageing begins from the moment you’re born!
• Common markers of ageing at mid-life: - grey hair, skin changes
- eyes have less flexible focus & require more light
• Changes require adaptations in behaviour e.g. care in night driving
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Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd
PPTs to accompany Claiborne & Drewery, Human Development 10-5
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