Adult Development – Summary

Adult Development Brian Carter West Georgia Technical College Adult Development ABSTRACT This paper explores and details the biological, cognitive, and fond development of the author during the stages of infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. It will compare the authors experiences and developmental milestones with the theories presented in the textbook.The combination of all of these factors, combined with the reactions and actions interpreted by the author in response to his environment and experiences, are what make him the person he is today. Adult Observation During an individuals lifespan development, he passes through several developmental stages, each with its own physical, cognitive, and favorable milestones. Whether the individual is an infant, child, adolescent, or adult, he is continually developing in almost every conniption in response to life, environmental, and physical demands.It is how the individual reacts to these changes that determine the direction and quality of the individuals life in the future. The way an individual participates in social activities, engages himself in educational opportunities, and takes time to self-reflect on his experiences all interact to form the direction the individuals life take. The social, cognitive, and physical aspects of the authors lifespan development thus far will be described and discussed in detail.The author is a thirty-five year old Caucasian male who lives in a suburb of Atlanta. He was innate(p) into and raised in a mostly suburban middle-class household in Louisiana, where he lived until age 23, when he moved to metropolitan Atlanta. He is currently married for the second time, and is expecting his first son to be born in the next week. He has one young sister who is also grown and married with one stepson. The authors parents were born and raised in rural West Virginia.His father is college educated. His mother attend college, but did not graduate. H e is a college graduate, and his wife has a graduate degree in Education. Both are employed full-time. INFANCY The author was born an eight-pound, four-ounce baby in August of 1975. During the first months of his life, he followed the general outline described in the textbook for breastfeeding and his introduction to solid foods (Dacey 2009). He also real normally, in physical, cognitive, and social aspects.Aside from a short stint of high fever as a baby, the author experienced no major physical ailments as an infant. EARLY CHILDHOOD As the author progressed into early childhood, he began to exhibit traits of increased intelligence. Thanks to highly involved parents and support group, he was always promote to participate in educational activities, rather than playing idly. REFERENCES Dacey, John S. , John F. Travers, and Lisa B. Fiore. Human Development across the Lifespan. Boston, MA McGraw-Hill, 2009. Print.