Development through the life span

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Development through the life span
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Todays coming attractions

• We will meet 14 people people in different stages
  of their life.

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Who studied your thinking and reasoning?
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Who Focused on your morality?
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Who discussed how you develop from youth through
old age
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• Janet believes that things can disappear and
  never come back.
• Which of Piagets stages is she in?
• What will she be able to understand before going
  on to the next stage?

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• Billy thinks everything belongs to him.
• He can not understand the world from someone
  elses viewpoint.
• Which of Piagets stages is he in?
• What tests can be used to see if he is getting
  out of this stage?

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• Samantha is 5 years old.
• Samantha can not do a math problem on paper.
• Which of Piagets stages is she in?
• What can you do to help her solve the problem?

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• Mike is raising a teenage son and daughter, and
  wants to avoid them using drugs.
• Should he use authoritarian or authoritative
  parenting?
• Why?

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• Jim does his homework in order to watch TV.
• What stage of moral development is she in?

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• Jane obeys the speed limit because it is the law,
  not necessarily because she thinks it is right.
• What stage of moral development is she in?

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• After much thought, Janet pickets an abortion
  clinic (illegally) because she feels it is the
  morally right thing to do.
• What stage of moral development is she in?

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• Twee is 16 years old. She has pink hair, and
  keeps changing her idea of what she wants to do
  in life.
• Which one of Ericksons eight stages is she in?

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• Will is going to NSCC. He has a live-in
  girlfriend, but often spends his time with his
  male friends rather than her.
• Which one of Ericksons eight stages is he in?

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• Harris retired from his job at Boeing, and is
  wondering if his life was worth it, and what he
  accomplished.
• Which one of Ericksons eight stages is he in?

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• Joan is 36, and is working hard to climb the
  ladder at work.
• Which one of Ericksons eight stages is she in?

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• Jans mother is 96 years old. She can remember
  things about when Jan was a child, but can not
  reason out and solve simple problems.
• Discuss why, in terms of Crystallized and fluid
  intelligence.

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• Don has been told his dad has early Alzheimer's
  disease.
• What can he expect in the future?

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• What does it mean to say the social clock
  varies from culture to culture?

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• William seems sociable and happy.
• What might we guess about his self concept?