Essay Quiz


1		You have found yourself stuck in the middle of an argument between your two best friends. One says that people never change, they’re the same way they are at 50 as they were at 15; the other says that people are constantly changing—look at all the famous musicians who have moved on from folk to Rock’n’Roll to Rhythm & Blues to Country—even Pat Boone went from Bobby So music to Heavy Metal. How would you mediate between these two positions, based on what you have learned from this chapter?



2		When you come home from school one day, you find a neighbor sitting at your front door waiting for you. Knowing you are taking this class in life-span development, the neighbor blurts out, “Help me! I feel like I’m in a time warp. I look in the mirror and don’t recognize the face staring back at me. I used to know who I was, but now I don’t have the foggiest idea. Am I going through a mid-life crisis? How did I get this way? Now I’m wondering if I ever knew who I was—as a baby, a child, an adolescent, a young adult. Who am I? What’s happening to me? How do we even know who we are ever!?” What can you tell him about identity development and about his apparent “midlife crisis”?

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