...A person’s lifespan is from the moment of conception through death. Lifespan development is the different stages a person passes through as he or she develops. Perspective of lifespan development understands the changes that occur in development. Freud and Piaget have very different theories of lifespan development. Freud’s theory is a basis of id, ego, and superego, whereas Piaget’s is a cognitive development that occurs over a person’s lifetime. Nature and Nurture are more than perspectives in lifespan development they influence how and who a person will be. Lifespan development is the time from conception to death as a person develops and grows; the perspective in relationship to human development is lifelong, and theories of lifespan development can be seen in Freud, and Piaget, while the influences of a person life is nature and nurture. What is Lifespan Development A person’s lifespan begins as a fetus and as it develops and grows for nine months in the womb becoming a person either male or female will continue through stages in a his or her life. The study of human development is a science seeking to understand how humans change over their lifetime (Berger, 2008). The changes a person goes through as he or she grows can be linear-gradual, predictable, steady, but normally they are none of these. The common stages are birth, infancy, adolescence, adulthood, old age, and the ending death. To define lifespan development is also to mention that humans in their lifetime...
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...Every human being passes through the different stages of lifespan. Lots of changes take place throughout the development period. Human life begins with the birth; it goes through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Development occurs in different perspectives of life. Some common developments are physical, psychological, cognitive and social-cultural. There are several theories by different theorist which define the human development and its stages, when human being comes up with different characteristics. To discuss on the essay whether or not ‘early life experiences and social development impact on adults and to explain ‘to what extent culture impacts on development OR a particular aspect of development’ three different theories by Erik Erikson (1902-1994), Robert Havighurst (1900-1991) and Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) are going to be highlighted. Question 1 As concerned to the first question, early life experiences and social development certainly impact on adults. Erikson’s psychosocial theory describes the development throughout the human life. He has categorized his theory in eight stages and they are infancy, early childhood, late childhood, school age, adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood and maturity. Each stage deals with different central tasks which are related to both positive and negative aspects of life. On the other side, Havighurst says development occurs through the learning. He has divided his theory into six stages and they are infancy and...
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...work. Human development theories can help professionals examining how a person’s behavior and personality improves during the lifespan (Berk, 2010). For this assignment, I chose two key theories that address human development. I will introduce and analyze Piaget’s cognitive-developmental theory and Erikson’s psychosocial theory. I will identify similarities and differences. Finally, I will discuss how these theories relate to my goals in research. Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was a Swiss theorist who conducted research studies on cognitive development. Although he observed his own children, his theory is one of the key theories of human development. Piaget published several books on childhood development, psychology, moral judgment, and intelligence (Berk, 2010). Few of his major works that I will use for this assignment are: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1948), The Early Growth of Logic in the Child (1964), Biology and Knowledge (1971). Piaget’s four stages address infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence (Mussen, 1983). Piaget believed that there is a significant connection between biological and cognitive development. Human beings physically, mentally, and emotionally adapt to their environment (Piaget, 1971). In early childhood, the child has a lack of logical thinking that will develop through everyday experiences (Inhelder & Piaget, 1964). As the child grows, her or his learning processes and interactions with others...
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...being very docile creatures. When handled on a regular basis, these two species of snakes are not known to be aggressive. When you think about it, no one would want to stay in a cage all day every day. A regular basis does not have to mean daily. A regular basis is just about constancy. If you are going to let your snake out of its cage twice a week, you need to make sure you stick to this regimen. Another way that ball pythons and red-tail boas are alike is their habitats. These snakes are good about regulating their own body temperature, but they need a little assistance from their owner/caretaker. The tank that you place them in, as their home, needs to have a cool side and a heated side. This can easily be done with the purchase of temperature measuring strips and a heated lamp. Placing the heat lamp and one strip on one side and just the second strip on the other side of the cage, the snake has the ability to slither to either side to regulate its own body temperature. The temperature strips help you to see that the sides are regulated. The last major similarity and probably one of the more important ones is their lifespan. These two particular breeds of snakes live between twenty and thirty years. This information is very important because these snakes start out young and small and cute. They do not stay...
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...Lifespan Development Lifespan Development A child can always brighten a room, the inquisitive look in a child’s eyes as he or she gazes upon their new surrounding, and the joy they get from everyday objects that adults take for granted because adults have seen and touched these objects. This paper will attempt to describe how certain surroundings and traditions can affect ones personality from aspects in their childhood. Over a lifespan the human body develops, and at different ages the body changes. What factors affect physical development? Physical development starts when we are born, the genetic make-up from our parents may decide on how fast or slow our motor skills are developed. Another factor that plays in our early development is the environment we are born into, or in some bigger families the place we are born into can be a factor in our development. According to child psychologist, Dr. Richard Woolfson a first born child may learn at a faster rate than a second or third born. First born children are surrounded by adults, so speech may come quicker where as a child born with siblings may develop motor skills at an accelerated rate often copying, or mimicking siblings. The environment that the child is exposed to is probably the most important factor in the child’s development, what children are exposed to, or not exposed to, may decide how their speech or personality are developed. A child exposed to violence...
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...www.med.monash.edu www.med.monash.edu NUR1010 FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PRACTICE Concepts of health, illness & human development OBJECTIVES • • • • • • Begin to develop their understanding of what nursing and midwifery involves. Discuss the concept of health. Discuss the concepts of human development. Describe factors that influence health across the lifespan. Begin to develop an understanding of the concepts surrounding person centeredness. Discuss the role of the nurse in infection control and prevention 1 2 www.med.monash.edu www.med.monash.edu 2009 Number Nursing Statistics Clinician Clinical management & Adm. Clinical nursing Average age (years) Average hours worked per week Definition of Nursing Nursing: encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management and education are also key nursing roles International Council of Nurses 2002 250,786 29,971 220,815 44.1 47.3 43.7 33.2 39.2 32.4 Non-clinician Lecturing, education and or supervision of new nurses Research Other 25,965 9,570 2,325 14,070 46.4 45.0 45.1 47.6 33.9 36.7 34.2 54 Total 276,751 44.3 ...
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...PSY 410 Defining Abnormalities Gender and sexual preferences/practices Gender and gender roles have different influences. Prenanatal exposure to androgen or the media both show influences (Kenyon, 2006). To be in consideration of normal a boy child should play with a truck and a girl a doll. Many children like to experiment, such as a little boy who wants to try on his “mommy’s” shoes. The able normal behavior occurs if the little boy prefers mommy’s clothing over that of his specific gender. Although in society no one seems to look twice at a women wearing men’s clothing. It is difficult to define what normal and abnormal behavior by gender and sexual preferences or practices in a changing world. The DSM-II defines sexual orientation disorders as a person who is in conflict with his or her own sexual identity, disturbed by the sexual identity, or a desire to change his or her own sexual identity (DSM-II Homosexuality_Revision.pdf, 1973). This should not be in confusion with homosexuality. Homosexuality is the sexual activity between two members of the same gender (Lecture 21, 2010). Homosexuality was historically a sexual deviation disorder according to the DSM-II. However, during the 60s and 70s the definition of homosexuality was reexamined and was no longer thought to be a disorder. The reexamination states defining homosexuality as a disorder was on a basis of values not on the collection of data. The DSM-III made the changes necessary to form a new category...
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...design thinking, sources of inspiration brainstorming, Design………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Critical Reflection: 11 References. 12 Appendices. 12 Design Brief: Design Brief: The problem is to identify a marketable product that will improve shoe hygiene and the overall lifespan of a sports shoe within the fitness and sporting world for both professionals and other fitness participants. The product being introduced to the market is a new unique and effective device that will increase the consistency and lifespan of the sports shoes. The product is a flexible and modern fragrance and delivery system that is designed to maximise a sports shoes lifespan, by optimising the endurance of the shoe and minimising occurrence of the shoe to misshape. When coming up with a design and a product to meet people’s demands there are many features that have to be considered. ‘Design is a process that turns a brief or requirement into a finished product or design solution’ A frequent use of a sports shoe will see its predicted life span of about 6 – 8 months, due to wear and tear and misshaping. Use of this product will facilitate an extended lifespan. The product is a foam made compound with a spring built into it, so when inserted into the shoe the device will adjust and mould itself into the trainer keeping a stern and solid shape. When inserted after a...
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...thoughts and motivations. It is our personality that orchestrates our psychological qualities. Some individuals cannot help but wonder how the personality works, how it came to be and what it might mean for their future. Some also wonder about the personalities of others; how they are the same or different from them. Although these questions are intriguing, the question that must be answered first is the most basic: “What is personality?” Personality encompasses the many characteristics that arise from within an individual. It is what makes an individual unique. Researchers have developed four different perspectives on personality. Each of these perspectives attempts to describe different patterns in personality, including how these patters form and how people differ on an individual level. Psychoanalytic Perspective emphasizes the importance of early childhood experiences and the unconscious mind. This perspective was created by psychiatrist Sigmund Freud who believed that things hidden in the unconscious could be revealed in a number of different ways, including through dreams, free association and slips of the tongue. Freud’s work shaped the fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry. He also argued that personality is divided into three structures: 1. The id, which is the primitive, instinctive component of personality that operates according to the pleasure principle. 2. The ego, which is the decision making component of personality that operates according to the reality...
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...development goals Amartea Sen is an Indian economists credited for the development of welfare theory in economics. He established various guidelines to act as a benchmark for the realization of better welfare in the society, which he termed as the main aim of development in the country. He believed that freedom rather than the functioning’s themselves, is the primary goal of development in any country. Through this, Sen is able to make the conclusion that the person’s standards of living should not only focus on the goods, its characteristics or the utility it provides but the capability of the person. In his case, the capability refers to the freedom the person has in terms of choice of functioning. He attaches a lot of weight on the range of choice the person rather than the choice of the best, which is the mainstay of welfare economics. According to Sen, there are four notions about goods, the notion of a good, characteristic of a good, functioning of a person and the utility of a good. For instance, Utilitarian’s view goods as having the value to the extent of satisfying human needs and wants. Enlightenment theorists view goods as only having value if they come from legitimate means. Egalitarians value goods to have an essential value; hence, distribution is paramount to them. The functioning of the person focuses mainly on the user and not the resources. In Sen’s view, the capabilities of the person are essentially to living. He views living as effective freedom of a person...
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...You are looking for, some of the basics: Intelligence, Willingness to learn, Intelligent disobedience, Temperament, Size, Lifespan, Care and Maintenance. According to the rankings poodles are number 2 in intelligence (after border collies). What does this mean as a Service Dog? They learn tasks quickly. They can extrapolate smaller tasks to create a more complex task to help its handler. With a higher IQ they can also tell when the handler is ignoring an alert. This means that if a handler refuses to listen to an alert these dogs typically become "nags" and will not give up until the handler acknowledges the task in an appropriate manner. Their temperament is friendly but active. Per AKC standards poodles range between 40-70 lbs and 15"+ at the shoulder. Some breeders have been breeding larger stock and it is not uncommon to find a poodle at 24"+ and 60-80 lbs. The lifespan of a Standard Poodle is 10-18 years depending on the lines. Due to having hair not fur the team will leave less of an impact than a dog with a heavier coat, such as GSD, lab, etc. Some handlers need a dog that is considered hypoallergenic with minimal shedding or just prefer not to track dog hair...
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...hierarchy of needs. As a leader of humanistic psychology, Maslow approached the study of psychology by focusing on subjective experiences and free will. He was mainly concerned with an individual's innate drive toward self-actualization—a state of fulfillment in which a person is achieving at their highest level of capability. He developed a hierarchy of human needs to explain how a person moves from his/her basic, physiological needs to higher-level self-actualization and transcendence needs. He believed that successful movement through every stage was vital in the development of personality. Those individuals who finally achieved self-actualization were said to represent optimal psychological health and functioning. Maslow stretched the field of psychological study to include fully-functional individuals instead of only those with psychoses, and he shed a more positive light on personality psychology. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is most often presented visually as a pyramid with the largest, most fundamental, physiological needs at the bottom and the smallest, most-advanced, self-actualization needs at the top . Each layer of the pyramid must be fulfilled before moving up the pyramid to higher needs. The first four of the five layers of the pyramid include only deficit needs, and the last layer includes growth needs. Deficit needs come before growth needs in a hierarchical sense only—not necessarily first in the developmental sense of happening earlier in life. Deficit needs are the...
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...of such organization and this helps develop the present resources to fit in the prevailing conditions. Vision can be described as the ability to configure what the future looks like and to plan for it. In the case of a company, it refers to the picture of how a company should look like in the future (Dooley, 2005). Through a vision, the main ideology and purpose of existence are formulated and these provide the basic direction to achieving the desired company development. Towards employees vision helps to fulfill an identity function and an identification function as well as mobilizing function. A vision describes the picture of the company in the future which makes it unique and distinctive. This serves as a sign of identity to the employees. Furthermore, a clear vision provides the staff with a sense and importance of their work. As a result, they are able to identify with the company which results in commitment towards their work and towards the vision as a common company objective (Sabrautzki, 2010). Strategic aims refer to the goals and objectives that will enable an organization achieve its desired future state. For objectives to be strategic they need to have three characteristics, suitable, whereby they address the main issues and are able to provide the desired results; feasible, whereby they can be achieved with the potential resources of the organization; acceptable, whereby they are supported by those with authority. Vision and...
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...Role Summary Samantha B. Quesada South University Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP) are advanced practice registered nurses who work autonomously or in collaboration with other healthcare professionals to provide health promotion, disease prevention, direct care, and counseling across the lifespan that is family-focused. FNPs are graduate level practitioners that may enter as non-nurses who must satisfy the requirements to take the RN licensure exam, either as a precondition to the NP program or as part of an articulated educational program that delivers the basic generic nursing content, in addition to the NP-specific content Midwives are primary health care providers to women throughout the lifespan. Women receive...
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...Lifespan Development Name Institution Course Date Lifespan Development Lifespan development is a wide field in the field of psychology. It all began with Darwin, who, in his quest to understand evolution, began to study the topic. In simple terms, lifespan development refers to a process, usually beginning from conception and ending when an organism dies. The process occurs methodologically and is as a result of the change that occurs with increasing age. Although the lifespan development may look simple, it is quite complex and involves different developmental stages. According to Baltes, (1996), the entire life cycle has four eras. These eras, he says, take an approximate time of 20-25 years. Levinson goes further to identify the developmental periods as childhood and adolescence, early childhood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. At this point in time, it is formal to simplify various terminologies that relation to human development. This is because they will feature constantly in the preceding sections. First and foremost is development. This is simply a change characterized by movement from one state to another. Usually, development leads to transitions. Development, as will be used in this paper, will refer to growth, and progression through certain stages, commonly termed as “maturity.” Another term of significance is stage. This refers to sections that differentiate the various phases of growth. The phases involve...
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