You have read
and learned about the life span of human development. The following project is
a culmination of all you have learned in the past 5 weeks. In several of your
past assignments you were asked to reflect on your own personal development.
For the key assessment, you will be asked to do some personal reflection and
synthesize this with what you have learned from your readings, lectures, and
resources.
Directions:
Reflect on your personal development from early years to now. You will discuss
your earliest memories through adulthood and link them to what you have learned
from this course. When you consider late adulthood, you will reflect on your
feelings about this stage of life. For all stages, you will discuss and
reflect on your physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Points such as
siblings/only child, adoption (if you were adopted), changes/losses, etc. you
might describe in one section may continue in others as they are ultimately
connected. Some other items to include are listed below each section and
questions for you to consider as you connect your experience to what you have
learned in this course. These questions are important to discuss, but create a
paper that connects that make sense, in other words, make sure the transitions
in your narrative flow. Organize your story first through an outline and then
begin your narrative.
At least 3
sources will be needed to complete this narrative.
The following
questions should be answered in APA format including level headings.
This assignment
is worth 300 points and due on the last day of class by 11:59pm CST
1.
Introduction
2.
Early
Years – connect this period of life with developmental theories such as Piaget,
Erikson, Vgotsky, etc. What about you might be genetics vs. environment? (for
this section, make connections throughout a-e with any developmental theories)
a.
Describe
your earliest memories.
b.
Did
you meet all your milestones of which you are aware. How did that affect you (positively/negatively).
c.
Describe
the role of your caregivers and their impact on you
d.
Describe
the role of siblings/only child/adoption for you
e.
School
experiences/friends
3.
Middle
Childhood
a.
Describe
and analyze your memories of this stage of life. Did you experience peer
pressure?
b.
How
important were the role of peers for you?
c.
Describe
school experiences that you had: struggles/strengths
d.
Describe
fears/Anxiety/Self-esteem and other emotional developmental issues
e.
Discuss
your relationship with your caregivers.
4.
Adolescence
a.
Describe
and analyze your memories from this stage of life.
b.
How
important were peers at this stage?
c.
Describe
your school experience.
d.
Discuss
your relationship with caregivers. Did the relationship change in this stage?
(e.g. leaned on peers more than caregivers for “how to be”)
5.
Early-Middle
Adulthood
a.
What
was the transition into adulthood like for you? How did you know you were an
adult? Was there a ‘rite of passage’?
b.
Discuss
physical and cognitive developmental milestones as they relate to you. Discuss
milestones in your life up to this point.
c.
How
influential have peers been throughout your adulthood.
d.
Discuss
relationships (romantic and platonic) at this age for you.
e.
Describe
emotional development for you at this stage.
f.
What
are some generational patterns that you are aware of when reflecting on your
caregivers. Are there patterns you would like to keep/change? Reflect and
discuss.
6.
Late
Adulthood
a.
If
you are in this stage currently, discuss physical, cognitive, emotional, and
social development.
b.
If
you are in this stage currently, how does heredity and environment influence
you at this point?
c.
If
you are not in this stage, reflect on what you would like to be like at this
stage. What are your fears and what are you looking forward to?
d.
Discuss
death, dying, bereavement.
7.
Overall
reflection of your developmental journey thus far as well as your journey in
this class. What have you learned and what would you like to know more about?
Were there things in which you struggled personally, emotionally, etc.?
