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"The Developing Person through the Life Span", 2002.
An analysis of the first chapter of this book by Kathleen Stassen Berger which introduces the fundamentals of human development.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper gives an analysis of the first chapter of the book that concentrates on the bio-social, cognitive and psychosocial aspects of development. The paper shows how the student can explore the processes undergone in the human life-cycle and learn about the influences on development such as socio-economic status, genetics, culture, school, family and society. The different research methods are explained.
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"Firstly, the development means change in quantity such as increase in vocabulary and then in quality such as acquiring the concept of rhyming words. However, special concern is given to distinctive new thought along with the behavior patterns. Secondly, the author?s developmental psychology book is concerned with not only identifying what changes occur during the human life cycle, but also discovering why these changes take place, and how they take place."
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Life Span Developments, 2002.
A study of the developments experienced by a person throughout their life span.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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An analysis of the 8 stage development, as presented by Erik Erikson, using a case study of an individual called Janet.
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Life Span Development, 2008.
This paper looks at lifespan development that discusses the changes of an individual during the period of life.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 35.95
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In this article, the writer explains that lifespan development and developmental psychology, in general, study the changes that occur in an individual throughout his entire lifespan, from his existence as a prenatal to old age and death. The writer notes that basically, lifespan development studies the evolution and changes of the individual, as well as of groups of individuals, over their entire period of life. On the other hand, the writer maintains that it is important to have a definition of the term development, as perceived by psychologists. It is much more difficult for an individual nowadays to be separated from the environment in which he lives and works and be examined as he is. The writer discusses that this can be in part beneficial for a psychologist, witnessing the object of study at work, in his own environment, but it can also be challenging, due to the fact that collectivism seems to be much better represented nowadays than individualism was before.
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"Among the most important categories of lifespan development methodologies, we can enumerate longitudinal study and cross-sectional study. In the longitudinal study, individuals that are born around the same period of time are jointly analyzed throughout their lifespan in order to observe not only individual development, but also differential individual development and see how and why individuals developed differently.
"On the other hand, in the cross-sectional study, the psychologist will aim to analyze individuals of different ages at a certain moment of time. Differently from the previous method, this will require fewer resources while provided useful resources about the individual development at various age stages. Cross-sectional study also helps lifespan development psychologists answer important questions referring to whether or not experience changes actual accumulation and development of an individual and how different age groups react differently in different situations ..."
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Life Span Development, 2001.
A look at a human's physical, cognitive, and psycho-social development through each of the four stages of development.
1,910 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 16 sources, $ 60.95
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General summaries of the last four stages of human development: Adolescence, Young Adulthood, Middle Adulthood, and Late Adulthood. Examines physical, cognitive, and psycho-social aspects of development.
Adolescence
Definition
Reproduction
Risky behavior
Cognitive: Piaget (Formal operations), Elkind
Identity vs. identity confusion (Erikson)
Peer and Family relations
Young Adulthood
Cognitive: Postformal thought, Triarchic theory of
Intelligence (Sternberg), Emotional Intelligence
Personality: 5 factor model (Costa & McCrae)
Intimacy vs. Isolation (Erikson)
Levinson & the Grant Study
Culture: Marriage, childbirth, remaining single
Middle Adulthood
Physiological changes ? hearing, sight, endurance,
metabolism
Ailments ? hypertension, osteoporosis, stress
Seattle Longitudinal Study: Fluid and Crystallized
intelligence
Cognitive ? Hoyer and Schaie
Jung ? Individuation
Generativity versus stagnation (Erikson)
Psychosocial ? identity style, assimilation,
accommodation
Late Adulthood
Biological aging ? genetic programming, variable rate
theories
Physical changes
Cognitive ? Metamemory, semantic, procedural, sensory
Ego integrity versus despair (Erikson)
Disengagement, continuity, and activity theories
Retirement
Marriage, family, peer relationships
Living arrangements
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"Adolescence is the developmental transition from childhood to adulthood. Although its beginning or end is not clearly marked in Western societies, adolescence lasts about a decade from age 11 or 12 until the late teens or early twenties. Adolescence carries many risks to healthy development, as well as opportunities for physical, cognitive, and psychosocial growth."
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Life-Span Theory, 2004.
An overview of the Life-Span Theory of career development.
1,024 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The Life-Span Theory of career development, developed by D.E. Super in 1953, is a highly useful tool for understanding career choice and development across the lifespan. This paper begins by providing a summary of the theory and then looks at literature written about this theory, which presents its strengths and weaknesses.
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"A number of key figures helped to shape Super's Life-Span theory of career development. These included Hull, Thorndike, and Bandura, who helped to shape the major focus of the theory toward an understanding of the distinct life roles of the individual, and that personality and interests could change across the life span, rather than just the first few decades of life (Super, Savickas, and Super, 1996). The basic assumption that underlies Super's theory is that individuals change as they mature. Further, Super's theory is built on an understanding of self concept, which "develops through physical and mental growth, observations of work, identification with working adults, general environment, and general experiences" (Zunker, p. 30)."
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Eric Erikson's Life Span Theory., 2002.
An examination of the Life Span Theory by Eric Erikson
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 44.95
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An analysis and evaluation of Eric Erikson's Life Span Theory.
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Life Span Research, 2005.
A study on the generational theory and the human life span.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 8 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper addresses the hypothesis that generational theory can be applied to understanding the sense of conflict that emerges between adolescents and seniors. The paper defines for the purposes of discussion, the term adolescents and seniors. The paper uses generational theory and hypothesizes that the sense of conflict that is observed from the interaction of these groups is attributed to these two populations coming from two distinctive generations that are separated by more than forty years.
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"One of the core principles in the study of generational theory is the observation that all generations appear to share attitudes and behaviors that are common to those maintained by their same-age peers. The concept of a generation is best described as a community that is identified by their years of birth, location, age, and shared life and social events occurring at critical periods in their development. Generational theory also indicates that there is a cycle, or saeculum, that "consists of four distinct periods, each lasting roughly 20 years. The uniqueness of the four periods explains why attitudes seem to change from one generation to the next; but in fact, the four periods simply cycle through about 80 years" (Rudich, 2001). As a result, the commonalities among members of a given generation not only separate them from the preceding generations but also separate them ..."
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Theories on the Variation of Life Spans among Animals, 2000.
An analysis of two theories on the variation of life spans: the evolutionary theory and the rate of living theory.
2,111 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 66.95
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"A dog is lucky if it lives fifteen years, while an elephant can live beyond sixty years. A certain type of clam can live over 200 years, yet the largest animal on earth, the blue whale, only lives about twelve years. When one looks throughout the animal kingdom, one sees tremendous variation from species to species. One of the most obvious differences between different animals is the discrepancy among the average life spans. There are essentially three stages that make up the life span of an animal (Hayflick 20). They are the developmental, reproductive, and senescence, or aging, stages. Most animals grow until they reach the reproductive stage, after which they began to age and deteriorate. In the wild, animals really only experience the first two stages. As soon as aging occurs and deterioration begins, the animal is at a disadvantage to the other individuals of its species and is more susceptible to predation and other hazards. The animal eventually succumbs to the ?survival of the fittest? theory. The only way that an animal is able to experience the effects of aging is through the care of humans who are able to keep it living much longer than it would normally live in the wild. There are two theories on the variation of life spans: the evolutionary theory, which takes into account that nature never really intended animals to age significantly, and the rate of living theory, which states that each animal has a limited amount of energy that is used up during its lifetime."
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The Person Who Has Influenced My Life, 2005.
This is a descriptive essay on a person that has influenced the student the most.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 26.95
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The paper is a personal essay about the student's friend who is considered to have influenced the student the most. The essay discusses the extent that the friend has affected him personally and also those around him. The paper also examines the friend's positive characteristics and how this makes him such an influential person.
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" "Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend" (Albert Camus Friendship Quotes). This quotation is so true when I think of the person that influences my life more than anyone else. The person that has affected my life is a friend, but not just any friend. This person has watched me from the time we entered school together and continues to be a friend today. Roger affects those he is around by guiding them gently when decisions need to be made, he encourages a person when they are depressed, and he loves unconditionally. Albert Camus must have had Roger in mind when he made the quotation about walking beside you and being a friend, because this is what Roger has done since I first started first grade."
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Work Life and Family Life, 2003.
Discusses issues involved in these two major aspects of life.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 10 sources, $ 63.95
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Shows conflicts between the two. Examines the problem of achieving a balance between both. Discusses stresses felt by workers and the need of employers to be less demanding and workers to accept responsibility for balancing their lives.
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"There are several unique phases of individual growth identified by Stanley (2002), as moving the individual from a first adolescent job to graduation from high school or college and on to working and living as a single adult, moving into autonomous ..."
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"Life After Life" ( Raymond Moody ), 1996.
Examines 15 common stages of experience of near-death phenomenon(NDE)
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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" This study will examine the fifteen different kinds of experiences described by Raymond A. Moody, Jr. in Life After Life: The Investigation of A Phenomenon---Survival of Bodily Death. These experiences are features of the dying experience. Moody's book depends on the accounts of individuals who have "died" and returned from that experience. Therefore, it cannot be seen as a scientific work. Moody admits that a "proof" of these experiences are not "presently possible" (xvi). If the reader is to get anything out of the book, he or she must open his or her heart and mind to the possibility of the near-death experience.
Moody wants to try to answer the question "What is it like to die?" (1). For such an answer, he goes to people who have had, or who claim to have had, an experience in which they have physically "died" and come back to life. They are the only ones.."
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Success in Life, 2005.
Explores whether success in life includes one's career, personal life or both.
1,154 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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Despite different views in life regarding success in personal life and success in career, there is one thing that we must consider. That is, personal life and career are two different worlds where it is not fixed for one to negate the other. The paper argues that it is possible that we have success in both, or failure in both, or success in one and failure in the other. There are many factors why the results of success and failure occur in our lives. This paper discusses them to provide some rationales of why it is possible and why it is not possible for success in personal life and career to go together.
Paper Outline:
Introduction
Work and Life Balance and Harmony
Your Career in Meeting Your Needs and Goals
Bibliography
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"As with balance, Pucci also considers harmony in work and life to be important. It is where elements must agree with each other to achieve success. For instance, balancing work and life does not necessarily guarantee success. It may happen that 8 hours a day at work is not enough to complete one's work responsibilities, thus his success in his career may not happen. In work and life harmony, aspects such as the ability of an individual to make 8 hours a day enough for work must be in harmony with the 8 hours set in his time."
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Personal Values, 2005.
Examines personal values in business and personal life.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses the personal values of the individual in relation to business and personal life. It further discusses how the cultural values of the corporation and the beliefs or ethics of the individual are incorporated into the employee's decision making. The paper also discusses how cultural values belong to the group, and personal ethics are individual. These two concepts must match in order to create an effective personal value statement.
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"In developing a personal values statement for personal and professional life, it is important to consider the effect of organizational, cultural, and personal values on the individual. Bond, Boonstra, Cheosakul, Fu, Higashide, Howell, Kennedy, Koopman, Lacassagne, Pasa, Peng, Prieto, Strinivas, Tata, and Yukl (2004) contend that values are "long lasting" (p. 284). These authors further state that there is a significant difference between the beliefs of an individual, and the values of a group or organization (Bond et al., 2004, p. 284). The theory of "beliefs" suggest that a personal viewpoint is being evaluated, while values suggest that a large number of people are sharing in one set of behaviors that will be best suited to the organization."
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Environmental Systems In My Life, 2008.
An application of Bronfenbrenner's theory of development to the writer's personal life.
1,213 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 41.95
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The paper refers to Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory of development that the developing person is embedded in a series of environmental systems that interact with one another and with the individual to influence development. The writer applies this theory to his personal life and his growth and development in his career. The writer discusses his dream of becoming a licensed professional counselor and how it will continue the series of environmental systems that have brought him to where he is today.
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"My life has been a series of interconnected systems. My mother and father immigrated to the United States from Cuba. An unusual couple, my mother had been a teacher in Cuba, while my father was functionally illiterate. My father emigrated to America, and once he had found a job and a place to live, he sent for my mother to join him. They lived in Yonkers, New York. My mother and father represent my first environmental system."
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