PSY 2305 Growth and Development Discussion
Choose a person you know well and complete a developmental analysis of this persons current period of development. You can choose a person from any of the developmental stages excluding infancy and toddlerhood. Through observation and communications with the person, assess the individuals current period of development. Within that specific period of life, provide a detailed comparison of the subjects physically, cognitive, and psychosocial development to the established norms, developmental milestones, and theories from textbooks and scholastic resources. All three areas of development (physical, cognitive, and psychosocial) must be examined in depth with various theories, established norms, and examples of met and unmet developmental tasks. The assessment is not a chronological lifespan report on a single theorist. It should focus primarily on the individuals current period of life. However, if the person has unmet tasks, you can examine earlier periods of life influential to the delay.
This analysis needs to be a minimum of 4 completed pages of content (excluding title page, reference page, and charts) and a maximum of 6 pages. Again, be sure to utilize various theories, established norms, and developmental milestones and apply those to all three areas of development of your chosen person.
Objectives:
Summarize an individual’s current period of development according to textbook information and various theorists.
Compare the individual’s physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development to the textbook description, various theories, established norms, and developmental milestones.
Recognize unmet or uncompleted tasks of the individual’s current period of development.
Identify measures to assist the individual to achieve the tasks of his/her stage of development..