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Lifespan Presentation

  • Lifespan development theoretical perspective: psychodynamic, psychosocial, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, contextual, or evolutionary: Does student give a clear explanation of which theoretical perspective relates closely to their growth and development, if so, how?
  • Does student explain nature vs. nurture and which has had the greatest influence in their life?
  • Does the student address free will? Does the student make clear whether one does or does not have free will, why or why not?
  • Does the student clearly state the properties of genetics? Physical traits? Family resemblances?
  • Physical characteristics: hair color, short vs. tall, freckles..etc.? Dominant vs. recessive traits?
  • Does the student speak about their mindset? (Mindset Test Available on Moodle)
  • Did the student discuss the mother?
    • Pregnancy problems
    • Mother's diet
    •  Mother's age
    •  Mother's health
    •  Mother's drug use or use of alcohol and tobacco
    • Mother's labor process
    •  Birth complications
    •  Cesarean delivery vs. natural birth
    • Postpartum depression
  • Father's role in prenatal care?
    •  How much did the student weigh and how long were they at birth?
    •  Did the mother breast or bottle-feed?
    •  What kind of attachment style did the primary caregiver provide to the student as an infant: secure, avoidant, ambivalent, or disorganized-disoriented? How has that affected the student?
    • Were you an easy, difficult, or slow-to-warm baby?
    •  Were you provided childcare in the home or outside of the home? How do you feel that has affected you?
  • As a preschooler, were you average height and weight?
  • How old were you when you learned to walk?
  • Were you sick a lot as a child?
  • Do you feel you are more right-brained or left-brained?
  • What kind of parenting style were you given? Authoritarian, permissive, authoritative, or uninvolved? How do you feel this affected/ affects you?
  • Were you average height and weight in middle school?
  • Were you sick during middle school?
  • Were you diagnosed with any psychological disorders during middle childhood? Special needs? Learning disabilities? ADHD?
  • What is your earliest memory?
  • Family life during middle childhood: divorced parents, single-parent home, multigenerational family, blended family, or gay/lesbian parents?
  • During adolescence, did you mature early, late, or in the typical range?
  • Did you suffer from psychological eating disorders? What was the cause of this?
  • Use/abuse illegal drugs/alcohol/tobacco? How old were you?
  • Do you have a personal story about egocentrism or self-absorption that you can remember and would like to share?
  • Identity issues? Would you say you fell/fall into identity achievement, identity foreclosure, moratorium, or identity diffusion?
  • Talk about your relationship with peers during adolescence: were you in a clique or crowd? Controversial adolescent? Rejected adolescent? Under socialized delinquent? Socialized delinquent?
  • Since you have reached young adulthood, have you experienced senescence? Secondary aging?
  • What kind of stress do you face in young adulthood?
  • How do you cope with stress? Problem-focused, emotion-focused, defensive coping?
  • Talk about your relationships in young adulthood: speak on the intimacy vs. isolation stage (success, failure), friendships, what about falling in love? If so, did you go through the stimulus, value, and role stage? Have you experienced different kinds of love: passionate/companionate? How did your childhood attachment style with your primary caretaker affect your relationships now? Are you secure, avoidant, or ambivalent in those relationships?
  • Career choice: what was your fantasy career? Talk about your movement from fantasy to tentative to realistic periods of career choice using Ginzberg's Career Choice Theory
  • Talk about choosing a career based on your personality type (Holland): realistic, intellectual, social, conventional, enterprising, and artistic: which one is you and did you choose based on these criteria?
  • Summary: does student sum up lifespan? Talk about the learnings of self by doing this project? Discuss future goals?

 *** You do not have to discuss EVERY point here; this is just a general idea. Try to at least touch on something from every topic. You must share your content via visual aid (i.e. PowerPoint, Prezi, Adobe Spark, or poster board).  ***


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