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PSY 211 Project Two Template Use this template to complete your life-span theory exploration paper. Answer each question with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences. Support your answers with credible sources when appropriate. Complete this template by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information. 1. Identify a theorist, summarize their theory, and explain the aspects of that theory that relate to the biological perspective . Jean Piaget was a theorist who believed that an individual's stages of biological development and interactions with life experiences determine their knowledge, such as when they were young. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, there are four stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete functional, and Formal functional. Piaget's hypothesis centers around mental turn of events, which focuses on phases of mental turn of events that a kid travels through into adulthood. Piaget believed that a child's development is influenced by their interactions with their environment and biological maturation. The stages will be completed by every child in the same order, and each stage involves a different type of intelligence that develops in tandem with the previous stage. These stages follow a consistent pattern; Without skipping or regressing to earlier stages, all children progress through the stages in the order listed. (Sigelman & Rider, 2017) 2. Provide an example of how this biological perspective of life-span development applies to your lived experience. I have watched my son, who just turned eight years old, progress through the sensorimotor stage of birth to two years and preoperational stage two to seven years phase. From the time he was born until he was two years old, I watched him use movements and sensations like listening, looking, and touching to try to understand the 1

world around him. To investigate and make new discoveries, he interacted with his surroundings. I saw he would mirror the activities of myself and his mother, and nearer to the age of one, he would attempt to shape words since he started to comprehend, he could utilize those words to get an article he needed. I've seen how the two stages he's been through over the last seven years have built on each other and how his interactions with his environment have helped him grow and learn. 3. Identify a theorist, summarize their theory, and explain the aspects of that theory that relate to the psychological perspective . The cognitive behavioral theory was created by Aaron Beck. Beck fostered this hypothesis accepting that an individual's encounters bring about perceptions and shape how an individual sees the world. Beck believed negative thoughts and attitudes directly correlate with negative behavior. He maintained that depressed people had formed self- defeating self-schemas. People's perceptions of reality and the future can be distorted by their negative self-perceptions (Southam-Gerow, 2011). 4. Provide an example of how this psychological perspective of life-span development applies to your lived experience. This perspective of development applies to me because there was the point at which I was going through depression, and my head was loaded up with negative contemplations. I fostered a negative self-mapping and shaped specific assumptions and convictions about myself that were all negative. When the pandemic struck, I was unemployed for ten months and faced financial difficulties, and these thoughts grew louder. I became emotionally damaged because of my pessimistic perspective on life. I looked for treatment, was shown survival techniques, and began having positive contemplations. I 2

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