{"id":77770,"date":"2025-11-14T19:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/age\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:21:11","slug":"age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/age\/","title":{"rendered":"Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The category of age determines the temporal characteristics of individual development. A distinction is made between chronological (passport) age and psychological age, which describes the degree of mental (psychological) maturity. In modern Russian psychology, the periodization of mental development is accepted: \u2013 infancy (0 \u2013 1 year), leading activity \u2013 intimate personal communication;\u2013 early age (1 \u2013 3 years), leading activity \u2013 object-manipulative;\u2013 preschool age (4 \u2013 7 years), leading activity \u2013 play;\u2013 junior preschool age (7 \u2013 10 years), leading activity \u2013 educational;\u2013 adolescence (10 \u2013 15 years), leading activity \u2013 intimate personal communication with peers (according to D. I.  Feldstein, \u2013 socially useful activities);\u2013 adolescence (the first period \u2013 high school age (15 \u2013 17 years), the second period: 17 \u2013 21 years), the leading activity \u2013 educational and professional;\u2013 mature age (the first period: 21 \u2013 35 years, the second period: 35 \u2013 60 years), the leading activity \u2013 professional and labor);\u2013 old age (60 \u2013 75 years);\u2013 senile age (75 \u2013 90 years);\u2013 centenarians (over 90 years)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The category of age determines the temporal characteristics of individual development. A distinction is made between chronological (passport) age and psychological age, which describes the degree of mental (psychological) maturity. In modern Russian psychology, the periodization of mental development is accepted: \u2013 infancy (0 \u2013 1 year), leading activity \u2013 intimate personal communication;\u2013 early age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-special-populations-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}