Psychology, development, adults. --- .This section is about adulthood. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, development, adults. --- (1) Learning adult knowledge and thinking skills concerning work, bills, kid raising, legal situations vs. (2) Coming to grips emotionally with adulthood. Not having it depress you so much. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- (1) People who want to act like an adult, and be seen as an adult (smart, independent, powerful, sophisticated, as portrayed in their clothes, speech and attitudes) yet who are childish. Vs. (2) People who are not so concerned with how others view them. People who are loathe to put on airs. People who are not afraid to be playful and childlike. --- 6/21/2000
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adult confronts issues, confronts problems, solves problems. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adult does not mean having kids, or even having sex. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adult in a pejorative sense. (1) Loss of imagination. (2) Loss of curiosity. (3) Has formed set answers. Closed mind. --- 10/10/1998
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adult knows how to mother self and father self. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adult means dealing with the situation, thinking and thinking well. It can occur at any age. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adult. (1) Realizing that civilization does not run itself automatically. (2) Recognizing and solving problems. (3) Intellectual development. (Getting informed and smart about big picture and foundational ideas). (4) Emotional development. (5) Ethical development. (6) Social development. --- 9/20/1998
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adulthood defined five ways. (1) Of legal age (drinking, voting, screwing). (2) Loss of virginity. (3) Making own money, and living on own. Supporting self monetarily. (4) Supporting self emotionally. (5) Knowledge. Knowing what is going on. --- 01/02/1994
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adults appear simultaneously smarter and dumber than teens. Smarter because they are more cagey. Dumber because they have lost their sense of wonder. --- 6/23/2000
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adults are sexual. Support self economically. Support self psychologically. Support and raise kids. Think for self. Ethically developed. Goal directed. Work hard. Can defend self and fight for beliefs. Much knowledge and good thinking skills. Confronts problems of the real world in thought and action. No more playing games (practicing) like children. --- 12/30/1995
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adults display a wide variety of types and degrees of abilities. Adults also display a wide variety of attitudes and views. So why posit the notion of the "adult" as some destination of development? If adults vary widely in their views and abilities then there has to be some other criteria besides the concept of an "adult" to speak about development. --- 7/28/2006
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adults face truth, and make own decisions. Adulthood can occur at any age. Adulthood means maturity: knowledge, emotion. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adults have learned to "get a grip on their emotions". In other words it is a "refusal to feel". Numb, dumb, old, cold. Emotions are felt less often and to a lesser degree. Closer to dead, beaten senseless. Less moments of lesser degree of above. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adults solve their own problems, and help others (like their kids) solve the problems that others (like their kids) have. --- 12/30/1995
Psychology, development, adults. --- Adults think for themselves. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- An adult can teach themself. Self-learning. --- 5/30/1998
Psychology, development, adults. --- Being an adult means changing your own diapers. --- 11/23/2003
Psychology, development, adults. --- Being an adult means fighting your own battles. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- Calm: to mentalize best, and to conform best. Responsible, careful, unlively, dead, bores, bored. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- How soon after college does a person become a clone, lose their youth spirit, lose their idealism, and lose their hopes for a hip life? How soon do they become part of the system or machine? How fast does the change take place of socialization into job, society, and life? The question is, how far did the person develop, what was their peak in all areas, and how far and fast will they decay in all areas? --- 08/21/1993
Psychology, development, adults. --- More freedom, more fun, more work, more responsibility. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- Most adults conform in thought, word, and action, due to work, like/lust, kids. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, development, adults. --- My asceticism and debauchery are evening out. Extremes mellowing. Golden mean. Risk taking and hiding hermit balancing out. The cool and nerd combine. But I will never be an academic. Always an explorer. --- 06/30/1993
Psychology, development, adults. --- There is a time between age 20 and 25 when they drip estrogen and testosterone, and look great effortlessly. --- 06/30/1996
Psychology, development, adults. --- Twenty-something fantasies. How long can one live on hopes, dreams and illusions? --- 4/28/2001
Psychology, development, adults. --- Work, wife, kids use up your time and energy. --- 12/30/1992