Life-span development and my life experie Lifespan Development (19, 07, 2010) Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………..3 Background of the study………………………………………………………………………..3 The theories and concepts in life-span development relative to the current case….……4 John Bowly and Mary Ainsworth’s attachment theory………………………………………4 Leonie Sugarman’s life-span development theory…………………………………………..5 Freud’s psychosexual theory…………………………………………………………………..7 Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory…………………………………………………………….8 Conclusion..…………………………………………………………………………………….10 Reference List………………………………………………………………………………….12 Case Study: Life-span Development and My Life experiences Introduction Background of the study Life-span development involves all the stages of development of human beings from conception to death. It encompasses several intermediary stages such as birth through infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and late adulthood to death. However, not all changes that occur in the life of an individual can be considered as development. Therefore, development involves a continuous and systematic pattern of changes that can be grouped into three broad categories. These changes include; physical development, cognitive development and psychosocial development (Sigelman & Rider 2006, pp.2-3).
TEMPERAMENT AND EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR Early Temperament and Adult Externalizing Behavior: The Moderating Effects of Parenting Style For many years there has been curiosity that has impacted the research on personality. Countless researchers have investigated the link between temperament and later developed personality style. It is especially of interest the link between infant temperament future externalizing behavior problems. Temperament refers to a broad array of biologically rooted behavior traits that are early appearing (Bates, Dodge, Pettit & Ridge, 1998). Over the years there are a number of different models and measures of infant temperament that have been advanced.
Exploring Personality Traits The Big Five Personality Test Personality is a wide field of study that is mandatory for psychology. It allows one to observe how someone’s lifetime goals could be related to even the most simplistic thoughts. There have been many types of tests made to assess people’s personalities whether it be for personality disorders, to evaluate the progress in therapy and see if an effect is being made or even to assess theories. An important test that has been used for a few decades deals with the Big Five trait theory. The Big Five trait theory was derived in the 1970s from two research groups, one group being made up of Lewis Goldberg and Warren Norman, and the other consisting of Robert McCrae and Paul Costa.
The characteristics of each disorder will be examined and whether there is cognitive and/or motor deficits associated. Development is a continuous process of change in our capacity to interact and exist within the world by a cumulative process (Getchell and Haywood, 2005). Along with being a continuous process development has two other defining characteristics. Getchell and Haywood (2005) describe how development is closely related to age and certain periods of rapid and slow change (p. 5). Lastly development is based on a sequence series of events that build off the previous.
Life Span Development Robert Diaz 9/9/13 PSY/375 Shaun-Katherine Robles The human life is developed from the time a person is born until their death. However long (or short) a person's life span is, over time, they develop both physically and cognitively. Many psychological researchers look to see how a person develops and why. Prominent figures in psychology like Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget, along with so many others, have spent good portions of their own lifespan trying to answer these questions and give a better picture of how a person develops throughout their entire lives. Both Piaget and Freud looked at development over a life span in stages.
Part 1 As individuals develop throughout their lifespan, it may be necessary to categorize age groups within life stages. There are multiple theories surround life stages, including Erikson’s personality stages, Levinson’s stages of adult development and Marcia’s personal identity theory. These theories can assist therapists in explaining a client’s current emotions and behaviours and as to how their presenting issues may link to the life stage that they are in (Carver & Scheir, 2000). 1) Marie Marie is a 17 year old female who has a ‘steady boyfriend’. As she is entering early adulthood, Marie may be beginning to explore personal relationships.
Life span Perspective The life span perspective of development The science of human development attempts to understand how and why an individual will change or remain the same over time (Berger, 2008). There are stages in life that begins with birth and infancy then continues to early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, adulthood, late adulthood, and finally the end of one’s life (Berger, 2008). If an individual lives a full lifetime, the stages mark different developments including physical, emotional, and psychological. Currently, there are five characteristics of development. First, multidirectional is a characteristic suggesting change occurs in every direction (Berger, 2008).
Describe the various milestones in the development of a child’s language in the first 5 years, and discuss the relevant biological and environmental factors that can influence language and learning. In this essay, I am going to discuss the development of language in children under 5; how they progress from crying and cooing at birth to being able to form meaningful sentences and hold conversations at 5 years old. I will describe the different stages of language development, and consider the factors that influence how a child learns language. These factors can be biological and environmental, the biological basis for learning language involve the creativity and predisposition of the child, factors that are generally determined by nature (Bates et al 1991). There are many environmental influences that have an impact on a child’s language development, firstly I will focus on the parental or caretakers influence, and secondly compare languages, how children from different countries develop differently from one another.
Although peers may become a more important reference group in shaping adolescent behaviors numerous studies show that the parent-child relationship remains important for the psychosocial adjustment of young adolescents. Some have even suggested that early adolescence is the key period in which a trajectory is set for future behavior problems (Pettit, Bates, Dodge, & Meece, 1999). There is little doubt that the parent-child relationships have an exceedingly vital part in forming Erickson’s last 5 stages of development. There have been analyses that have explored the behavioral consistencies between parent-child relationships. The parent-child relationship has a deep impact on other relationships in adulthood.
This human process is called social development. This being said, it is a continual change of human behaviors, feelings, and interpersonal thoughts; which will continue to develop over our life-span. Each phase of personal development will be essential in overall growth during childhood through adulthood. Social influences come from solitary comrade or group settings, which can have powerful effects on personal behaviors. The extent in which individuals are influences can depend on self-esteem levels, and individual strengths from moral, values to self-identity.