LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT

Assignment Instructions:

Select a subject (person at least 3 years old)  who you know well enough to assess their developmental stages. 

Select a Lifespan Development Theory (for example Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory or Piaget’s Cognitive Theory).

Create a PowerPoint presentation using your selected Lifespan Development Theory to describe your subject’s development.

The presentation slides should include the following sections and supporting information in bulleted format, along with appropriate supporting images. The presentation should also include elaboration and supporting details in paragraph format with in-text citations in the speaker notes section of the PowerPoint. The presentation should be approximately 7-10 slides. Carefully follow the instructions and the Grading Rubric for this assignment.

Presentation Title: Assignment title, your name, the institution’s name, and date.

Section: Description of Lifespan Development Theory

Explain each stage of the selected theory

Include physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development from prenatal through the last stage of life.

Section: Biographical Information

Collect and provide a brief overview of the subject’s biographical information, including information such as their age, gender, family structure, and living environment, education or employment setting, family socio-economic status, religious affiliation, ethnicity, or cultural elements, etc

List and describe each stage of your subject’s developmental stages according to your selected theory including the subject’s present stage.

Name and describe stages that your subject has not encountered yet.

Section: Sexual Orientation and Gender

Define sexual orientation & gender identity based on Week 4’s Lesson (Hint:  they are not synonymous concepts!). 

Describe how the development of gender identity occurs based on your selected theory and its impact on personality & sexuality.