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Wasbewwi wrote on 2011-08-21 05:38
What is MATURITY / being MATURE?
What is being IMMATURE?
I cannot describe any of these words.
Immature = Being a young age, and foolish?
Mature = Being a considerable age and being very honest/wise/etc.?
You see, you cannot fully describe this word. I could claim to be mature myself, but I would think otherwise too.
Being mature doesn't mean getting into a fight or vise versa ?
I need a concrete definition. I need to know if i'm mature or not. At this point, I think i'm not immature, although people tell me I am.
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paladin wrote on 2011-08-21 05:43
It more of a lean
Being mature means your act more on your senses,logic,good choices,morals you know
Its assoicted with age due to the fact as you age most people began to grow more mature
Immature is acting silly,playful to an extent and childish or doing things to annoy people
But it varies person to person
I was mistaken as freshmen for seniors due to my maturity level
Ive see people in my freshmen class act like one year olds
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Fynl wrote on 2011-08-21 05:47
I think that if you're wondering whether you're mature or not, you're probably still at an immature point.
In my opinion (not a dictionary definition, sorry) you get more mature as you get older, and that you're never at a "ok i'm 100% mature, no more improvements to be made" point.
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Wasbewwi wrote on 2011-08-21 05:49
Well, of course there are things every can improve on when it comes to maturity.
You can never be too mature, (while you can be too immature ..)
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Fynl wrote on 2011-08-21 05:52
Quote from Wasbewwi;559851:
Well, of course there are things every can improve on when it comes to maturity.
You can never be too mature, (while you can be too immature ..)
If you're wondering for yourself, then what I'd say is just live your life. Don't worry about whether you're mature or not, or whether others think you are or not.
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Cynic wrote on 2011-08-21 05:54
Just an FYI: Maturity has nothing to do with age. At all.
It's a mindset. Experience.
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TA wrote on 2011-08-21 06:06
Short answer to your question, from what I have seen, you are not mature. I do not mean that offensively. This is just my personal opinion as judged from my observations of your actions over a long period of time here. Many others here, even of far greater age, are quite immature. *
There are two aspects of maturity: Psychological maturity and Sexual maturity.
What you are curious about is the prior rather than the latter. Sexual maturity is one's physical age, appearance, and ability to reproduce offspring.
(Psychological) Maturity is a psychological term used to indicate how a person responds to the circumstances or environment in an appropriate and adaptive manner. This response is generally learned rather than instinctive, and is not determined by one's age. Maturity also encompasses being aware of the correct time and place to behave and knowing when to act appropriately, according to the situation and the culture of the society one lives in.
While it has been shown that older persons are generally more mature, psychological maturity is not determined by one's age. However, for legal purposes, people are not considered psychologically mature enough to perform certain tasks (such as driving, consenting to sex, signing a binding contract or making medical decisions) until they have reached a certain age. In fact, judge Julian Mack, who helped create the juvenile court system in the United States, said that juvenile justice was based on the belief that young people do not always make good decisions because they are not mature, but this means that they can be reformed more easily than adults. However, the relationship between psychological maturity and age is a difficult one, and there has been much debate over how to tell if someone is mature, especially regarding social issues such as religion, politics, human stem-cell research, genetic engineering and abortion.
Mental age is a concept in relation to intelligence, expressed as the age at which a child is performing intellectually. The mental age of the child that is tested is the same as the average age at which normal children achieve a particular score.
However, a mental age result on an intelligence test does not mean that children function at their "mental age level" in all aspects of life. For instance, a gifted six-year-old child can still in some ways function as a three-year-old child. Mental age was once considered a controversial concept.
Originally, the differences between mental age and chronological age were used to compute the intelligence quotient, or IQ. This was computed using the ratio method, with the following formula: mental age/chronological age * 100 = IQ. No matter what the child's chronological age, if the mental age is the same as the chronological age, then the IQ will equal 100.
An IQ of 100 thus indicates a child of average intellectual development. For a gifted child, the mental age is above the chronological age, and the IQ is higher than 100; for a retarded child, the mental age is below the chronological age, and the IQ is below 70.
* = [SIZE="1"]While one's physical age affects maturity due to the accumulation of experiences (older age tends to result in the inevitability of maturing over time), it does not necessarily mean one is mature psychologically. One could be a 100 years old and still immature, albeit unlikely at such an age, barring mental disorders, it's very possible.[/SIZE]
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MareneCorp wrote on 2011-08-21 06:11
Quote from TA;559881:
[SPOILER="Spoiler"]Short answer to your question, from what I have seen, you are not mature. I do not mean that offensively. This is just my personal opinion as judged from my observations of your actions over a long period of time here. Many others here, even of far greater age, are quite immature. *
There are two aspects of maturity: Psychological maturity and Sexual maturity.
What you are curious about is the prior rather than the latter. Sexual maturity is one's physical age, appearance, and ability to reproduce offspring.
(Psychological) Maturity is a psychological term used to indicate how a person responds to the circumstances or environment in an appropriate and adaptive manner. This response is generally learned rather than instinctive, and is not determined by one's age. Maturity also encompasses being aware of the correct time and place to behave and knowing when to act appropriately, according to the situation and the culture of the society one lives in.
While it has been shown that older persons are generally more mature, psychological maturity is not determined by one's age. However, for legal purposes, people are not considered psychologically mature enough to perform certain tasks (such as driving, consenting to sex, signing a binding contract or making medical decisions) until they have reached a certain age. In fact, judge Julian Mack, who helped create the juvenile court system in the United States, said that juvenile justice was based on the belief that young people do not always make good decisions because they are not mature, but this means that they can be reformed more easily than adults. However, the relationship between psychological maturity and age is a difficult one, and there has been much debate over how to tell if someone is mature, especially regarding social issues such as religion, politics, human stem-cell research, genetic engineering and abortion.
Mental age is a concept in relation to intelligence, expressed as the age at which a child is performing intellectually. The mental age of the child that is tested is the same as the average age at which normal children achieve a particular score.
However, a mental age result on an intelligence test does not mean that children function at their "mental age level" in all aspects of life. For instance, a gifted six-year-old child can still in some ways function as a three-year-old child. Mental age was once considered a controversial concept.
Originally, the differences between mental age and chronological age were used to compute the intelligence quotient, or IQ. This was computed using the ratio method, with the following formula: mental age/chronological age * 100 = IQ. No matter what the child's chronological age, if the mental age is the same as the chronological age, then the IQ will equal 100.
An IQ of 100 thus indicates a child of average intellectual development. For a gifted child, the mental age is above the chronological age, and the IQ is higher than 100; for a retarded child, the mental age is below the chronological age, and the IQ is below 70.
* = [SIZE="1"]While one's physical age affects maturity due to the accumulation of experiences (older age tends to result in the inevitability of maturing over time), it does not necessarily mean one is mature psychologically. One could be a 100 years old and still immature, albeit unlikely at such an age, barring mental disorders, it's very possible.[/SIZE][/SPOILER]
That, is NOT short, but well said. Copy pasted?
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Wasbewwi wrote on 2011-08-21 06:20
I act differently (internet and real life).
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Zack wrote on 2011-08-21 06:28
Quote from TA;559881:
Long..
Contributing to thread yourself would probably be more help than copying exact
word by
word from the wiki...
Anyways, being mature to me is just not being childish and being more serious into what is going on and what you are contributing too. A simple example of immaturity that I could think of would be making someone mad on purpose and just mocking them. (Happens on Mabi a lot)
Being immature doesn't always mean bad. Having an immature sense of humor could make others feel good by thinking they did something funny.
Everyone is immature in their own way and when it comes to things they like and care about, they will be more mature about it and not act childish and not care.
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TA wrote on 2011-08-21 06:42
Quote from MareneCorp;559889:
That, is NOT short, but well said. Copy pasted?
First paragraph only is my short answer. Though it's somewhat continued in the very last paragraph with the red asterisk.
Quote from Zack;559907:
Contributing to thread yourself would probably be more help than copying exact word by word from the wiki...
Not really, no.
Definitions needed to be presented as they are. Re-writing them would be utterly pointless.
My own points and opinions were presented as well. Though, the definitions themselves stand fairly sufficient on their own. The question itself calls for such. Without any preliminary research having been done, the actual definitions needed to be presented.
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Moppy wrote on 2011-08-21 06:48
I started writing out an answer and at some point it just became nonsense.
Because of that, I'll leave a short answer for now and hopefully I will return at a later date with a more elaborated answer.
Maturity and immaturity, while it can be defined, is one of those concepts that mean different things to people. For some people, it is acting childish/unchildish while other people use it differently. For example, if I do decide to do a nice, chunky write-up on this subject, a person may say to be, "you have a very mature opinion on this subject". To that person, maturity means to have a firm understanding or belief.
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Chillax wrote on 2011-08-21 07:09
Maturity is acting completely in line with social norms and not deviating from them.
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Kyreffer wrote on 2011-08-22 05:04
Quote from Cynic;559858:
Just an FYI: Maturity has nothing to do with age. At all.
It's a mindset. Experience.
Erm, we all know that a 20 year old can be more "psychologically mature" than a 30 year old yet experience does tend to come with age.
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Cynic wrote on 2011-08-22 05:09
Quote from Kyreffer;561169:
Erm, we all know that a 20 year old can be more "psychologically mature" than a 30 year old yet experience does tend to come with age.
Tend, but does not always come with.
I've had more life experience than most 30 year olds that I know, yet I'm only 17.
Age just gives you a larger span of time during which you /could/ experience things, but that doesn't mean people with less can't have experienced more overall.