Developmental Psychology

Achieve Test Prep: Developmental Psychology

adolescence and beginning to make adult choices. Many individuals desire to then settle down and establish a general timeline for careers and families. Roger Gould researched changes of early adults. For his subjects, he focused on men and women between the ages of sixteen and sixty. After researching, he found that as adults aged and grew, they attempted to become more tolerant of themselves. Early adulthood is generally viewed as a time of great instability when compared with middle or later adulthood. Gould believed this

suggested a correlation between mental disorders and early adulthood. Some of the significant events and intimacy categories are listed below: - Friendship

o Establishing friendship relationships is relatively easy during early adulthood. o College, work, religious activities, and sports provide ways to meet people and to make friends. o Male friendships tend to be based more on shared activities than female friendships. o Women tend to make more emotional friendships. o Cross-gender friendships help an individual to learn more about the opposite gender. o Various levels of friendships continue until and through marriage. - Mate Selection o Theory of Propinquity: the tendency to marry people who are geographically close. o Theory of Homogamy: the tendency to marry people of similar demography. o Complimentary Needs Theory: the tendency to marry someone who has opposite or lacking qualities of a particular individual. o Exchange Theory: mate selection is a rational economic theory of costs and benefits. - Cohabitation o Forty percent of individuals in the USA live together before the marriage o Statistically speaking, cohabitation does not strengthen marriage.  Cohabitants tend to be more liberal and therefore accepting of the ideal of divorce.

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