Development in adolescence and late adulthood

Reassure them that physical changes and emerging sexuality is part of normal, healthy development. Burke, D. Archives of Internal Medicine,— It may be a period of gaining expertise in certain fields and being able to understand problems and find solutions with greater efficiency than before.

Another longitudinal study showed that extraversion in high school students predicted their experience of more positive life events over 4 years later in their college- or work-life, while their neuroticism predicted the experience of more negative life events [39].

Written informed consent was given before participation in the study, which was specifically approved by the Institutional Ethical Review Board of the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan.

A young chess player may think more quickly, for instance, but a more experienced chess player has more knowledge to draw on. Filial Piety, authoritarian moralism, and cognitive conservatism in Chinese societies. Social behavior and off-target verbosity in elderly people.

In addition, adults, compared with adolescents, exhibited decreased activity in the hippocampus during the encoding of negative images [25].