Adulthood Stage of Human Life Cycle: Understanding the Developmental Changes

Self, Society and Life Course

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 1
A life cycle defines the cycle of an organism growth, reproduction and eventually growth.
Life cycle of human defines the journey of human from the stages of fertilization to the death
of an individual. In this cycle, People not only develop with their height, weight but also
develop with their skills such as social, emotional and intellectual across their life span. The
people mind develop as per the time which is calculated in the terms of age. The skills are
getting developed by their experience with the pass of time. The development of a child is
stop in the adulthood stage and this is the last stage of physical change. There are eight stages
of human development in which the life cycle of a human is described such as parental
period, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle
adulthood, and late adulthood (Homans, 2017). In this paper, the discussion is made on the
“Adulthood stage of Human life cycle”.
The changes that occur in human being in the terms of biological, psychological from the end
of adolescence to the death of an individual is called the stage of Adulthood. Adulthood is a
stage of great adjustment in an individual life. In this stage, the skills start getting developed
with the height and weight of an individual. In this period, adults are facing new challenges
and understand the new things as experience. According of Erikson theory, an individual start
thinking logically and solve their problems as per the concepts and reasons. In this stage, an
individual start getting understand the human behaviour and capable to understand the right
or wrong for themselves. The concept of the Adulthood refers the age at which the
individuals are responsible for their own actions. It is the age of majority which is lie between
the 18 and although there is variation from 16 to 21 (Arnett, Žukauskienė, and Sugimura,
2014). The individuals also start to take up responsibility and extend their concern to caring
for others. This stage of human development will be understandable with the help of different
perspective and theories in the next phase of report.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 2
Psychology theories are used to provide a model to understand the human thoughts, emotions
and behaviours. This theory has two components such as describe behaviour, and prediction
about future behaviour. There are many psychological theories which help to understand the
human behaviour such as developmental theories, grand theories, mini theories and emergent
theories (Holmes, 2014).
Adulthood is a period of optimum mental functioning when the individual is on the peak
position to understand themselves and others behaviour. According to Piaget’s theory, at this
stage people are able to think logically only about concrete ideas. Psychology theory helps
the individual to understand the behaviour of human. As the time passes the theory is
modified as the behaviour of an individual is change. It has been seen that the human
behaviour is change with the passes of time. In the age of adulthood a human has the
curiosity to learn and adapt the new things which change the behaviour. It is difficult to
predict the human behaviour at this age of human development; but the psychological
theories helps to understand the changes of behaviour (Holmes, 2014). This theory also helps
an individual to understand the nature of them. The theory considers development in a wide
range of issues like motor skills, emotional intellectual. The emotional intellectual includes
the higher level of skills which affects the behaviour of people and set the mind to solve the
problems, moral understanding and theoretical understanding. As per the Piaget’s theory, the
people at this stage can use abstract thinking to solve the problems. Psychological theory
describes the role of personality development and continues change in behaviour. In the age
of adulthood, an individual meet different types of people and adapt their habits and nature
which is the turning point (Schwartz, 2016). The theory refers the unhealthy personality
certain issues are not resolve. This stage of human developments is very sensitive stage in
which people are stuck just because of incidents. As per the Erikson theory, all good and bad
memories are remembered by an individual who is happen in this stage of adulthood till the