saint psy325 all modules

28 Jun saint psy325 all modules

Question
Module 1 discussion

Consider these examples, reviewed in Life Span Development by John Santrock (2008, McGraw Hill, 11e).

“Ted Kaczynski sprinted through high school, not bothering with his junior year and making only passing efforts at social contact. Off to Harvard at age 16, Kaczynski was a loner during his college years. One of his roommates at Harvard said that he avoided people by quickly shuffling by them and slamming the door behind him. After obtaining his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Michigan, Kaczynski became a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His colleagues there remember him as hiding from social circumstances—no friends, no allies, no networking.

After several years at Berkeley, Kaczynski resigned and moved to a rural area of Montana where he lived as a hermit in a crude shack for 25 years. Town residents described him as a bearded eccentric. Kaczynski traced his own difficulties to growing up as a genius in a kid’s body and sticking out like a sore thumb in his surrounding as a child. In 19656, he was arrested and charged as the notorious Unabomber, America’s most wanted killer who sent 16 mail bombs in 17 years that left 23 people wounded or maimed, and 3 people dead. In 1998, he pleaded guilty to the offenses and was sentenced to life in prison.

A decade before Kaczynski mailed his first bomb, Alice Walker, who later won the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Color Purple, spent her days battling racism in Mississippi. She had recently won her first writing fellowship, but rather than use the money to follow her dream of moving to Senegal, Africa, she put herself into the heart and heat of the civic rights movement. Walker had grown up knowing the brutal effects of poverty and racism. Born in 1955, she was the eighth child of Georgia sharecropper who earned $300 a year. When Walker was 8, her brother accidentally shot her in the left eye with a BB gun. By the time her parents got her to the hospital a week later (they had no car), she was blind in that eye and it had developed a disfiguring layer of scar tissue. Despite the counts against her, Walker overcame pain and anger and went on to become not only an award-winning novelist but also an essayist, a poet, a short-story writer, and a social activist.” (p. 4)

Considering that we are all products of both heredity and environment, analyze these two cases based on what you’ve read in the first two chapters. Specifically:

Considering the families of theories discussed in Chapter 1, (biological theories, psychodynamic theories, behavioral theories, cognitive theories) pick two of the broad theoretical perspectives and describe what they would say about development as it relates to these two individuals (apply two theories to both individuals). Be “creative” in your applications. Think of numerous applications though they may not exactly fit. Use this as an opportunity to drill down into the theories.

Now, think of the influence of biology (Chapter 2). What possible hereditary influence may have contributed to the behaviors and life choices of these two individuals? Stretch on this one.

Module 2 discussion

You read about healthy development in the three domains of the physical, cognitive, and emotional throughout this book.

From what you read in the two chapters for this week, pick out 3-5 factors that contribute to healthy development that were unusual, unique, or which you had never thought about before. Think creatively and support your answer. Draw in class text concepts and cite correctly, for full credit. Show how your main topics actually relate to healthy development.

In your response to your classmates’ posts, challenge your classmates’ responses as to their uniqueness.

By the way, please review my discussion board expectations from week one.

Module 3 discussion

Your textbook mentions daycare/childcare in a couple of sections (you’ll read about it next week as well). After you’ve read all the reading for this week, answer the following questions. Don’t make this a political response (“I like . . . don’t like childcare”) but use it as an example to pull together and apply core concepts from the two chapters for the week.

Divide your answer into three sections (use a heading for each section)

1. What would be necessary in a childcare setting to stimulate full development during infancy and toddler hood? Think of physical/motor, cognitive, language, personality and sociocultural development. Don’t write a book but pick out main points and make it clear that you are applying text content.

2. Based on the chapters’ content, what could go wrong in development because of a daycare setting? What would be the optimum daycare environment to complete development?

3. What would you as a parent contribute to the development of your child that daycare can’t?

In your answer, make sure you address all of the questions asked and draw in text material that applies (cite correctly per APA)

Module 4 discussion

In the chapters for the week, you read about three theories of cognitive development during the early childhood years (Piaget, Vygotsky, and the information process approach).

For this discussion board, let’s make some practical applications of the theories. Make a list of 4-5 actions (what you can “do”) to enhance cognitive development based on each of the theories. Then tell us why those actions are important based on the theory (cite correctly).

So, set it up this way.

Piaget

1.action one (with explanation)

2. action two (with explanation)

3. etc.

4. etc.

Vygotsky

1. action, etc.

2., etc.

3. etc.

4. etc.

Information Processing approach

1. action, etc.

2.etc.

3. etc.

4. etc.

Make sure to read the text sections thoroughly before providing your action steps.

Module 5 discussion

The chapters on middle childhood introduce many issues and problems which can follow a child throughout his/her life (obesity, school problems, self concept issues, effects of divorce, etc.)

Pick one issue from the chapters and explain 3-5 things you learned about that issue (new or unique information—not something you knew already). Then suggest what you could do to make sure the issue did not cause long term problems for the child. Make sure to draw specific concepts and findings from the text as you answer this last part. Make a list of suggestions and cite your support.

By the way, tell us why the information was “new” or “unique”.

When you respond to classmates’ posts, add additional ideas, or probe with an insightful question.

Module 6 discussion

After thoroughly reading the chapters for this week, please consider the following. Note that there are two distinct parts to this discussion question.

Adolescents tend to engage in riskier behaviors than individuals at other stages of development.

1. From your text discussion (make sure to draw in text material) provide an overview of the cognitive/emotional/physical reasons why adolescents engage in riskier behavior. Make sure to clearly address all three domains.

2. Then, select a health-related issue from Chapter 11 and propose a way to prevent with the issue in adolescents by addressing the underlying problems. In this part, also make sure to expressly draw in text material and cite correctly. Be sure to include enough detail for your classmates to evaluate your proposal.

When you respond to your classmates, be sure to critique their responses as well as make suggestions to improve the suggested preventions

Module 7 discussion

After reading the chapters for this week, review the following questions. CHOOSE ONE but make sure to answer it completely. Make sure also to INTEGRATE TEXT CONCEPTS and cite correctly.

Review the concept of “midlife crisis” as discussed in the text and weigh in with your assessment. Is the crisis inevitable? Why or why not? Make sure you support your answer with solid research and logic, based on your reading of Berk.

What determines if Middle Adulthood is seen as the best part of life or as the beginning of decline? List a number of factors based on your reading.

Review the elements of cognitive decline in middle adulthood. How can a person best adjust to these changes? Draw from Berk in your answer.

Review how early habits affect development in Middle Adulthood. What does Berk say that would apply here?

Why might a job loss in middle adulthood be perceived as a more serious threat to a person’s self-concept than the loss of a job in early adulthood? What support can you draw from your reading of Berk?

Analyze an adult you know who is in Middle Adulthood (yourself, a spouse, a parent, a grandparent) based on the Big Five theory of personality. Have you seen consistency on these characteristics through the years?

Module 8 discussion

After having read your text material, discuss what you see as the most troubling issues to be addressed when considering dying and death (DNR orders, living wills, euthanasia, palliative care, hospice, quality of life) and how you would help someone address these issues either personally or in caring for a family member.

Make sure you inform your responses from your readings; draw in text material and cite correctly per APA.

Make this thoughtful and reasonably complete