Developmental Psychologists

Developmental theories are propositions that view crimes, holding the perception that as people undergo life transitions, their experiences influence their behavioral characteristics and patterns. These inevitable behavioral characteristics do change at different points of life. They are also used to seek out the identification, description and comprehension of the factors explaining the inception and continuation of criminal professions. The theories also seem to find the assertion behind the why people engage in criminal and the reason behind their ability in altering the trajectory of their progress in criminal involvement. These theories are distinctively categorized in two broad categories that are contextualized in this paper, the latent trait and life course theories.

Psychologists study an array of perspectives to gain insight on to why people behave, think and feel the way that they do. This became the starter for a need to simplify human behaviour and levels of analysis was created. Not only does it greatly simplify matters but it also creates clearer interrelations between perspectives, allowing further study into our behaviour.

Developmental Psychology is the ways that people change throughout their lifespan. Studies include the psychological affects, physical and social growth, intellectual, emotional and perceptual changes that occur. Developmental Psychology focus on a wide range of behavior changes beginning with prenatal development. Developmental Psychology also focuses on developmental disabilities and the effects it might have on people’s behavior. As with many fields related to psychology, a developmental psychologist must obtain a doctorate for most positions; some positions at the university level requires a PhD.

1. According to Robert Sternberg, love goes through 3 stages of love he calls “The three dimension of love; passion, intimacy, and commitment. Sternberg believes when you go through the three dimension of love, there are also seven different type of love. The seven different type of love is liking, infatuation, empty love, romantic love, fatuous love, companionate love, and consummate love. The first dimension of love is passion; it is the process where we first start falling in love with a partner. Passion is what I call the “getting to know each other” stage of a relationship. The second part of the three dimension of love is intimacy. Intimacy is when you feel close to a person whether it’s emotionally or physically. It is also a stage where you share your deepest secret about you to the person who you feel that you’re in love with. Intimacy is where you feel the closest in your relationship. The third and final stage of the three dimension of love is commitment. Commitment is the phase where people decide that being with that one person is enough and they would spend the rest of their life being together that leads to marriage and children. I feel that Sternberg’s dimension of love is associated to Erikson’s intimacy vs. isolation. “Adults seek someone with whom to share their lives in an enduring and self-sacrificing commitment. Without such commitment, they risk profound aloneness and isolation.” (Berger, p.525) I believe

Developmental psychology is viewed as different approaches which aims to look at how children and adults develop. Theories such as Bowlby 's attachment theory can explain how a child 's development can be altered by their attachment, thus leading to the ideology of the nature vs nurture debate, nature referring to the process of biological maturation while nurture is referring to the impact of the environment or surroundings, which involves the idea that a person learns through experiences. (McLeod, S. A, 2012)

The cognitive developmental theory comes from the work and research done by Jean Piaget which we believe is an empiricist approach which goes hand and hand with Piaget’s constructive approach. Empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience. The constructive approach is viewed as children discovering all knowledge about the world through their own learning and knowledge. According to Piaget, children pass through these stages at different times in their lives and cannot skip a stage which causes them to be seen as invariant.

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life. Initially focused on infants and children, the life stages of developmental psychology is ranged to include infancy, adolescence, adult development, and the entire lifespan. This field looks at change across a wide range of topics that includes motor skills and other psychological processes such as cognitive development involving areas like problem solving, moral understanding, conceptual understanding, language acquisition, social personality, emotional development, and self-concept and identity formation.

Her current teacher and her assistant provided information regarding her skills and development. The teacher stated that Z displayed typical behaviors during this evaluation.

It is well established the children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) fail the false belief task in Theory of Mind (ToM), which could be due to the nature of the task (Chang & Cheung, 2016;Peterson et al., 2013). A potential reason could be due to children having a lack of competition to motivate them to pass the ToM tasks (Peterson et al., 2013).

The study of Developmental psychology is how thought and behavior change and remain stable across the life span. This perspective

Pt is a 17y/o Caucasian female presenting to NNBHC with her parents due to SI and suicidal gestures. Pt communicated that she has been decompensating for several weeks, where she felt her Lamictal wasn’t effective. She soon becomes noncompliant with taking her Lamictal for several days. She states that she has been having increase panic attacks and anxiety. She states that she was in her room today sitting on the floor rocking, thinking about hanging herself. She states that she had a nuance in her hand, and her boyfriend found her who deescalated her. She states her boyfriend than called her parents to come home. She states a peer had committed suicide x3months ago, and its coming up on the anniversary of another peers who committed suicide on 11/20. Pt demonstrated an incongruent mood throughout communicating, about her suicidal gesture where she would begin to cry than transition to smiling. Pt denies psychosis, or paranoid thinking. Pt states she has been

Psychologists want to understand and explain how we think, act and feel. The field of psychology I am interested in is Clinical psychology, which is involved in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. As a psychologist your job is to perform your client’s evaluations and diagnosis as well as develop therapeutic options and goals. All of these things, along with your client’s process are kept in a detailed record.

Development psychology refers to the scientific study of the systematic psychological changes that normally occur to human beings throughout their growth period from birth to old age. It was originally concerned with children and infants, but it has since expanded to include the entire life span of mankind including adolescence and adulthood. Development psychology covers the extent to which human development occurs through gradual accumulation of knowledge, and the extent to which children born with inmate mental structures learn through experience. Several psychological theories and approaches like the behavioral, humanistic, psychoanalytic, biological, and cognitive approaches have been developed to explain the

Developmental Psychology has widened my perspective and knowledge of the nature of development from humans’ infancy to adolescence and emerging adulthood. Although I have learned about biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes and periods of development, I am especially interested in socioemotional development in infancy because it is the foundation for a child’s future development. That is to say, if children have a healthy socioemotional development from infancy, they will have a healthy life later on. By understanding the developmental process in infancy, I will be fully prepared when I have children or when my family’s members do.

Week one started off with developmental psychology, which is defined as identifying and explaining the continuities and changes individuals display over time. There are two ways that cause humans to develop, these are by maturity and learning experiences. A person that observes developmental psychology are known as developmentalist.