LifeSpan Assignment 1

This week the reading was on chapters 8 and 9. Chapter 8 was about adolescence. The first thing that caught my eye, was that I did not know a period was called a menarche. The overall development for adolescence is hard to track. Physical development is the easier to track, however stating when exactly puberty starts is hard. An example of this is when a girl gets her period at 11 or 12, puberty may have physically happened but mentally will still take a while. Alternatively, an eighteen year old girl who hasn't gotten her period yet, has still gone through puberty without the physical period. Another cool fact is that girls typically get taller sooner, and weight changes before boys. Girl hips widen as boys' shoulder broaden. The chapter covers eating disorders, like bulimia and anorexia, that girls starve themselves, or binge eat and then throw up to maintain "skinny" or "perfect" body image.  Piaget theory, specifically the formal operational stage was co...

  This weeks reading of chapter 6 and 7! Was fun just like last weeke. I like being able to read about children and really identify with the children within my family. A lot of personal examples were brought to mind as I read. This week the goal within our reading was to understand how children acquire a sense of self, understand the meaning of gender and play in regards to children development and learning and finally defining major stressors in childhood.        The first goal is how children develop a sense of self. Initially children identify with their physical attributes, like hair color or eye color. Their identities slowly change through cognitive and social maturity. Roles the family and roles of siblings are two main contributors to this. Parents, specifically parenting styles, can mold children. There are four parenting styles; authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved.  I can most easily identify with authoritative parenting, the...

 This week was a very fun chapter for me. I myself am a huge fan of babies, a lot of my friends have had babies and I  almost live vicariously through them once I find out they are pregnant. I like to pay attention to every detail from their morning sickness all the way to being there for their actual birth and helping them take care of the babies watching and babysit him as well. I think this chapter was so much fun because it confirmed a lot of the stuff I already know however it also help me learn new things.  This week the goal was to be able to gain knowledge on the fertilization process, the prenatal period, the flow of the birthing process, and the characteristics of newborns. I just want to take the time to go through each and what specifically excited me or was new information to me.   The first process was fertilization this starts with a woman's menstrual cycle, which is the process of ovulation which is the ripening of eggs. Also preparing of the uterine...

 This week we read chapter 2 talked about the theories of development. There were three goals that we wanted to take away from the reading. One,  who is Freud and what is his psychoanalytic theory? Two, what relationship did we take away the psychosocial crises and lifespan delevelopnent? And three, what where Maslow's heirachy of needs and what did importance is it to me? First,  Frued was one of the most influential theologist. He was one of the first people to come up with these powerful ideas of  development, and how each of person has the same stages of development. He breaks it down into five stages the oral stage, the Anal stage, the phallic stage, the latency stage, and the genital stage.  Each stage is broken down by age but also by a pleasure center.  Each person moves from stage to stage as each pleasure center is satisfied. A person moves from stage to stage as each a pleasure center is satisfied. The big things I took away from this is how ...

This week the text and video really felt like a good introduction to what we will be covering in this course. The first chapter for me hit on a lot of topics, it referenced a lot of topics like nature versus nurture, different philosophers and how each one had another philosopher who challenged or opposed their theories. A couple things stuck out to me that I am excited to learn more about.  There was a quote by Peterson, 1988, "adolescence... it begins in biology and ends in culture." This really resonated with me, I grew up with a lot of children with the same family background. Middle class, working parents, multiple children, we all spent a lot of time within the church, very similar childhoods. However when we grew up and hit the real world, we all went in different directions. Each of our adolescence life was very different, I would be interested to know if this is what this concept is talking about.  Another thing that stuck out to me was that correlation is not t...