LifeSpan Assignment 1

This week's assigned reading was Chapter 13, putting it all together. This week the chapter covered making lifespan development all about you, putting it in to practice. Lifespan development can be applied to every day life, like passing a homeless man. I thought this example tied it together really well for me. Some people might engage with the homeless man, while other's might avoid eye contact. The chapter refers to Maslow's hierarchy of needs  how people are challenged to self-actualized when basic needs aren't met. The book defines stakeholders as individuals who are affected by actions of a larger group or organization. Within the field of lifespan development invovles stakeholders of all ages and levels of power within our soical framework. According to the chapter, some of the current issues that we face is with teachers. It talks about teacher "teaching to the tests." This is about teachers trying to ensure children hit different marks or test level...

This week's readings were about late adulthood, dying, and spirituality. In Chapter 11, we talked about late adulthood and we were asked to identify key aspects of physical delevopment among the elderly. There is a variety of physiological theories regarding elderly and death. One of the theories included that stuck out to me was homeostatic imbalance. This is a concept that there isn't much of a difference between a young person and an old person in reference to systems. However we see older body simply aren't as effective as reacting to stressors in the process fails.  Training, nutrition, illness stress level, and personality type also affect one's rate of aging. This stuck out to me because I definitely want to pay attention to all of these things, so that I personally age well. Hormone production slows down during late adulthood, and in one of the most debilitating conditions of the elderly is Alzheimer's disease. One of the other big things that stuck out to m...

 This week's reading was about introduction to adulthood and middle adulthood. I found a lot of things interesting. The first thing that stuck out to me was the insert about american rights of passage. I think  I have seen or experienced a lot of these myself already.  Events such as prom, sweet 16s, confirmations, sororities, and getting a car were such defining events in my life. There were also things, that I personally have not yet to experience like getting married, or having a baby.  I think a lot of people almost fantasies about these things that have happened to them. The events become huge momentous things that define our life by, and people look back at as golden ages. Examples of physical changes that happen during your introduction to adulthood is reaching your maximum height, or I n terms of speed and strength adults reach their peak condition at this time.  This chapter also talks about physical fitness, which I think is huge for young adults right...