A) The increased diversity of the college atmosphere encourages cognitive development. The three body functions that protect emerging adults are: A)lymph tissue, strong muscles, and a developing brain.

Five features make emerging adulthood distinctive: identity explorations, instability, self-focus, feeling in-between adolescence and adulthood, and a sense of broad possibilities for the future.

“Emerging Adulthood” is a term used to describe a period of development spanning from about ages 18 to 29, experienced by most people in their twenties in Westernized cultures and perhaps in other parts of the world as well.

As Arnett describes it, emerging adulthood can be defined as an:

• Age of identity exploration. Young people are deciding who they are and what they want out of work, school and love.
• Age of instability.
• Age of self-focus.
• Age of feeling in between.
• Age of possibilities.

Psychologically, emerging adulthood is a stage when an individual’s cognitive abilities increase to reach their peak in their fourth decade and possibly beyond (37). There is also evidence that brain size growth continues into the third decade in some individuals.

Adulthood begins around 20 years old and has three distinct stages: early, middle, and late.

In other words, the transition to adulthood involves interactions, interconnections, and mutual influences among such life domains as education, employment, and parenting (Maughan and Champion 1990; Gore et al. 1997).

In early adulthood (ages 20–40), our physical abilities are at their peak, including muscle strength, reaction time, sensory abilities, and cardiac functioning. The aging process also begins during early adulthood and is characterized by changes in skin, vision, and reproductive capability.

Emerging adults — those ages 18 to 25 — tend to grapple with their identity and future.

Early Adulthood is a Time of Value Change: Many of the values developed during childhood and adolescence change as experience and social contact with people of different ages broaden and as values are considered from a more mature standpoint.

Erik Erikson’s developmental life task for people in their twenties is to develop: intimacy through a close partner relationship. All are major transformations in how contemporary emerging adults find love EXCEPT: more interest in finding committed relationships during the twenties.

The most advantaged catch up by age 29 when slightly over 60% of each group is married. Until this age, the most advantaged white women are the least likely to marry and the least likely to cohabit.

The report found several factors that were linked to increased feelings of isolation in 2019. Loneliness appeared to be more common among men. The survey found 63% of men to be lonely, compared with 58% of women.

From around the age of 25 the first signs of aging start to become apparent on the surface of the skin. Fine lines appear first and wrinkles, a loss of volume and a loss of elasticity become noticeable over time. Our skin ages for a variety of different reasons.

Ultraviolet radiation, which speeds the natural aging process, is the primary cause of early wrinkling. Exposure to UV light breaks down your skin’s connective tissue — collagen and elastin fibers, which lie in the deeper layer of skin (dermis).