Invitation To The Life Span Summary

The current research question that I will be focusing on is “What are the effects of a child receiving spanking compared to a child who does not receive spanking in a long term?” I choose this question because it is related to the concentration that I am focusing on in my sociology major, which is youth and childhood. Another reason why I choose this question is because when I was child, my mother would spank me with a wooden spoon if I ever were to behave badly or if I broke something in the house. People believe that when a child is spanked it can affect their self-esteem once they or grow older, but for me it did not make any affect, as a result I was okay. Also, people that I know who are in college had been spanked as well, and they would

     Going back forty-five years is not an easy task to complete because I can’t remember some of the finer details of my childhood. I know I was born on a hot August afternoon in Birth Year at Place Of Birth in City ands State. My mother was just twenty-two at the time and was already the mother of two, I was her third child. My father was twenty-one and already a workaholic, I know because my mother would constantly remind me not to be like that. My mother and father were good parents and they tried to give us the best upbringing they could. My father was the kind of person that believed he should provide and protect his family, and he did a very good job of doing that.

The interview was conducted with a married female, 59 ½ years of age. The purpose was to document the subject’s lifespan history with recollections of significant events in her development. The focus was to identify any dystonic outcomes during any of the stages of Erikson’s personal developmental theory, theory of the mind, Levinson theory, attachment theory and Identity theory. It is anticipated that the questions could quarantine specific areas and incidents that may have obstructed any of the developmental theories thereby influencing the subject’s later view of adolescent, young adult and middle age. The focus for the paper is inspired by Erickson’s emphasis on the identity crisis as the “psychosocial

As a result of the experiment, researchers found that children tended to be more aggressive when punished with spanking. Mothers who spanked their children at age one usually saw more aggressive behaviors at age three. However, spanking became unrelated towards maternal affection towards their children by the time their children were between the ages of three and five. “Regardless of mother’s warmth, greater use of spanking is associated with increases in maternal spanking from ages three to five (Lee, Altschul, and Gershoff p.

It was stated in this article that Baumrind did a study to show the link between reliance on physical punishment that is associated with harm of a child. It showed that parents that spank their child occasionally did not have children that were angry as a result of the punishment. Parents did not have to worry about simply hitting their child out of anger, or the possibility of their child becoming some random serial killer because they were spanked as a child. Kids knew how to respond to the punishment they received back in the 90’s. Parents were not taking it too far and the few parents that were taken to jail and received the maximum amount of punishment the law would allow.

No under 30 of the 56 different nations that took an interest in the Program for Worldwide Understudy Appraisal (PISA) math test had a bigger level of understudies who scored at what might as well be called the propelled level on our National Evaluation of Instructive Advance (NAEP) tests. While 6 percent of U.S. public and private school understudies evaluated as cutting edge in eighth grade arithmetic, 28 percent of Taiwanese understudies did (Hanushek, 2010). This is revealing to me that different nations are using something we are not that is enabling their understudies to exceed expectations pass the U. S. No less than 20 percent of understudies in Hong Kong, Korea, and Finland were exceptionally expert, and 12 different nations had no less than double the level of very proficient understudies as the U.S. also, different nations (Hanushek,2010). This proof demonstrates that only 8 years prior U.S. understudies were failing to meet expectations in math and

Picking someone for this paper was much more difficult than the first one, at immediate thought the only people I knew over the age of 65 were my family members. I started to look into some of my friends’ parents but they were not quite there. Then it hit me, the perfect person to interview would be my friend that passed away in Dickinson, her grandmother. She is one of the most loving, caring, supportive grandparents I have ever met. I have always seen her from that stand point so interviewing her would only help me to understand how she became the way she is today.

According to Cliff Notes, Developmental psychology is the scientific study of age-related changes throughout the human life span. A discipline of scientific inquiry, developmental psychology recognizes humans of all societies and cultures as beings who are “in process,” or constantly growing and changing. This discipline identifies the biological, psychological, and social aspects that interact to influence the growing human life-span process. Within the last 25 years, developmentalist’s researchers who study human development expanded their focus to include the study of the physical, motor, cognitive, intellectual, emotional, personality, social, and moral changes that occur throughout all stages of the life span (cliff notes).

For Life-Span Development class, on February 13, 2017, the class had the opportunity to observer the physical, cognitive and social development. In this observation the class Riley, a five month old, female toddler. As a class at the Dordt College, gave the class the opportunity to live observe in the child with the infant’s parent consent.

The major point highlighted in this article was Charles Barkley’s views on corporal punishment and how it is different in black households. Researchers did show that spanking is most common in black households, however that is not were the problem was found in Charles Barkley’s comments. I have a problem with the remark Charles Barkley made that they do it because that is what everyone else does. This reason is never a valid one and is especially not a good statement to pass down to your children. Every child learns and thinks in a different way. For some spanking may be effective for others it wont be. Parents should not look to what other families are doing but rather to how their child is reacting.

This has been a very fascinating journey from prenatal, birth to old age. The goal of this paper is to show how my knowledge and understanding of life span development has increased, as well as demonstrate how this knowledge and understanding will apply to and can be used within my area of specialization, Leadership Coaching.

The study of human development is a science. It is based on theories, data, analysis, critical thinking, and sound methodology (Berger). Five characteristics of Development that will be discussed in this paper are multidirectional, multi-contextual, multicultural, multidisciplinary and plasticity. There are also five theories of development which are psychoanalytical, behaviorism, cognitive, socio-cultural, and epigenetic theory. Together these characteristics and theories can be used together to get a better understanding of the human development and how much genetics play a role in development and how much the

M.E.P is a self-dependent 75-years old Hispanic woman that was born in 1940 in California, but then moved to Arlington, Texas when she got married. She grew up in a conventional nuclear family, with a younger sister and two traditional parents. She spent most of her time with her mother and sister whom she considers to be her befriends, while her father was out working everyday. During those times even though she had her family she felt alone and abandoned. The household she grew up in was of course an ordinary household where her parents gave their daughter whatever her heart desires, because she was their princess and believed she deserved the best. One thing she dislike when growing up was that she did not like being waited on hand and

Our lives, are rather insignificant in the whole scheme of the universe, just imagine that the universe has been around for billions and billions of years, yet we only see a 100-year portion of it. If we get to see that whole 100 years of it then we are considered lucky, the average life span is influenced by so many variables, it is amazing how many things that we have little or no control over can effect the our lives. For instance, genetics is a variable that we have no control over, we do not choose our genetic makeup, it is chosen for us. Yet our genetics influence our lives in such a large way.

This provides us further with the ‘why’ of parents in favor of spanking, despite negative evidence to its implementation in child punishment. Bell and Romano start the article with the idea of the root of the study conducted. “The use of corporal punishment has been linked to negative developmental outcomes for children.” So with this information, why does spanking continue? The results of the survey tell us why. “Those who report experiencing more corporal punishment during childhood but also more parental warmth/support hold more favorable attitudes toward spanking and those who report experiencing more corporal punishment during childhood and also more parental impulsiveness hold less favorable attitudes toward spanking.” (Bell and Romano, par. 1) Positive reinforcement of spanking is the main perpetuator between parents who were spanked, who now spank their children. It is hard to view a choice your parents made as a ‘bad and damaging parenting choice’ if everything else they did, except that one thing, was positive. So, sure, they spanked you, but they also provided love and support, so spanking can’t be that bad, right? When it comes to the ‘why?’ of the continuation of spanking in our culture, Isaac’s historical and societal acceptance could be