Essays on Developmental Psychology

1. An evaluation of George Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory in terms of its usefulness in contemporary society Personality is an influential and important aspect of psychology. Personality psychology asks the question what does it mean to be a person? And it is primarily concerned with human nature and individual differences (Pervin and John, 2001). This…

Course Description This course presents adult development theory and links theoretical concepts to life and learning through a process of psychometric assessment and reflection. Both classical and contemporary adult development theories are examined. These theories then provide the paradigm for self-analysis and life learning, including a plan for personal, professional, and academic learning. Course Design This…

Title: An Essay on Application, Breadth, and Depth Components Introduction             In the creation of an effective and informative Knowledge Area Module for any field of study areas specifically related to the study of  human development, it is imperative that a Learning Agreement Application is appropriately selected and used to illustrate a more tangible evidence…

During the initial and preliminary days of my adulthood one of the major placement features was to be able to express and demonstrate my own self. Looked forward to gaining my independence. It was particularly imperative for me to part from my parents and become self-sufficient, self-supporting and gain financial stability. I was able to…

These perspectives allow recantations to examine things from different points of view to determine and explain why they happen. For example, certain conditions that children have can be explained by the different perspectives. Each perspective will explain the condition in a different way and provide different reasons for the condition and its causes. The perspectives…

Man’s Search For Meaning             The book of Viktor Frankl entitled “Man’s Search for Meaning” that is released in the year 1946 serves to be the evident  manifestation and depiction of difficulties of Victor Frankl and with the other Jewish inmate that were sentenced to stay inside the Nazi’s Concentration Camp, mainly because of their…

Physical development Young people will also see many physical developments changing the appearance of their bodies. Everyone’s rate of growth is different. During adolescence, coordination and strength increase greatly and by age 19 or 20 the adolescent has full adult motor capacities. Social and emotional development The teenager may become self-conscious as changes in their…

The five journal articles I examined were all from a journal titled Developmental Psychology, May 2000. The first journal article that I observed was “Sleep Patterns and Sleep Disruptions in School-Aged Children.” This study assessed the sleep patterns, sleep disruptions, and sleepiness of school-age children. Sleep patterns of 140 children (72 boys and 68 girls;…

Parents label early childhood, which extends from 02 to 06 years, as the problem, the troublesome or the toy-age; by educators as the Pre-school-age; and by psychologists as the Pre-gang, the exploratory, or the Questioning-age. Physical development proceeds at a slow rate in early childhood but the physiological habits, whose foundations are laid in babyhood,…

Which theory or theories take a strong position that nurture is more important than nature? The humanistic theory argues that people have the natural ability to discern information and make decisions regarding their behavioral actions and lives. The humanistic theory also places an emphasis one a person’s natural desire to live their lives freely and…