Adult Development Analysis

Running Head : ADULT DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS

Adult Development Analysis

Amnah Albaloushi

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xx June 2008

Lamis came from a family that originated from the country of Pakistan She has a big family-her mother , father , fiver brothers , and two sisters-and they all give importance to the values , culture and behaviors inculcated into their minds by their parents . She expressed how blessed she was to be in a family that treasures love , respect integrity , and life

Lamis life was indeed very challenging because she grew up amidst

br various complexities in life . When she was a little child , she was always confused as to whose directions should she follow because she has parents who are entirely two different individuals . Her mother is someone who loves to be with people so much . She likes socializing with people and undertaking activities with them because such experience gives her certain pleasure and enjoyment that she does not find in any other places . Her father , on the other hand , is the exact opposite of her mother . He does not like the idea of being with people . He is more comfortable being alone in his own place , perhaps because her father is a very private person . He keeps a lot of things in his mind and usually do not share most of those things to her mother . Furthermore , her father is very pragmatic and he is open-minded that he understands the contemporary things they do in their lives even if those are sometimes against his beliefs . On the contrary , her mother does not want them to do things on their own . She is very strict in terms of the things they undertake . She wants them to always obey her because she believes that she knows what is best for her children

The contradictions demonstrated by Lamis ' parents made her initially a very confused individual . It affected the development of her morality She told me she loves both of her parents so she was usually torn between whether to follow her father or her mother . She eventually learned to balance the characters of her parents and somehow managed to grasp the positivity of their differing individualities and created a whole set of values , behaviors , and beliefs that influenced her moral development

Lawrence Kohlberg , a theorist who proposed the concept of moral development , conceived that individuals continue through each stage of moral development consecutively without skipping or returning to a previous stage . According to him , the stages of processing ideas implying qualitatively , various ways of reasoning , and of problem solving are incorporated in the three levels of pre-conventional conventional and post conventional development (Hayes , 1994

The pre-conventional level of Kohlberg 's moral development theory communicated that behavior is motivated by anticipation of pleasure or pain (Hayes , 1994 . The child is aware of cultural rules and labels of good or bad and right or wrong . The subject then interprets the labels in terms of the physical consequence , such as punishment or reward . This was true in Lamis ' family...