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Emotional:
Separation anxiety may begin
Coos for pleasure and cries with displeasure
Social:
May become shy or anxious with strangers
Tries to mimic adult sounds
May tire quickly of a toy but never of attention
Mental:
Learns to communicate
Imaginative
Can begin to read
Social:
Learn to become agreeable and cooperative
No longer completely self-centered
Play with children their age
Mental:
Strengthens ability to read and to write
Understand abstract concepts
Memory begins to become more complex
Social:
Parent and peer approval
Awareness of other gender
Easily make friends
Social
Less time with parents; more with peers
Discovering role in society/self-identify
Trying new things (good or abusive things)
Mental:
Higher level education (college)
Deciding on career path
Creating lifestyle
Social:
Straying away from peer group
Associate themselves with similar ambitions and dreams
Forms a family with their spouse
Mental:
Better at analyzing situations
Learn to cope with different types of stress
More confident in decision making
Social:
Family relationships decline
Work relationships replace family relationships
Relationship between husband and wife can become
stronger (however divorce rates are high)
Mental:
Decreased intellectual functioning of the brain
The frontal lobe, which is responsible for judgement and reaction, slowly loses
neurons, impairing the brain
Social:
Increased dependency on others
Increased loneliness as loved one pass away
Staying active and involved in social outings = have greater self-esteem