- •Key Terms
- •2.0 The Life-Span Perspective
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Chapter 2 The Science of Life-Span Development
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Section II Beginnings Chapter 3 Biological Beginnings Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Chapter 4 Prenatal Development and Birth Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Section III Infancy Chapter 5 Physical Development in Infancy Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Chapter 6 Cognitive Development in Infancy Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Chapter 7 Socioemotional Development in Infancy Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Section IV Chapter 8 Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Chapter 9 Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Section V Middle and Late Childhood Chapter 10 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Chapter 11 Socioemotional Development in Middle and Late Childhood Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Section VI Adolescence Chapter 12 Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Chapter 13 Socioemotional Development in Adolescence Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Section VII Early Adulthood Chapter 14 Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Сhapter 15 Socioemotional Development in Early Adulthood Summary
- •Key terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Section VIII Middle Adulthood Chapter 16 Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Chapter 17 Socioemotional Development in Middle Adulthood Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Section IX Late Adulthood Chapter 18 Physical Development in Late Adulthood Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Chapter 19 Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood Summary
- •Key terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Chapter 20 Socioemotional Development in Late Adulthood Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Chapter 21 Death and Dying Summary
- •Key Terms
- •Essay and Critical Thinking Questions
- •Research Project 2 Journal Article Critique
- •Research Project 2 Genetic Counseling Available to You
- •Research Project 1 Why Do Some Pregnant Women Drink, Smoke, or Use Drugs?
- •Research Project 2 Fatherhood
- •Research Project 1 Cross Motor Activity
- •Research Project 1 Object Permanence
- •Research Project 2 Mother-Infant Language
- •Research Project 1 Attachment Behaviors
- •Research Project 2 Development of Self in Infants
- •Project 1 Memory Span
- •Research Project 2 Language Errors
- •Research Project 1 Parten's Play Styles
- •Research Project 2 Altruism-Empathy Observations
- •Research Project 1 Current Exercise Levels
- •Research Project 2 Conservation Tasks
- •Research Project 1 Children Attitudes Towards School
- •Research Project 2 Gender Roles and Television
- •Research Project 2 Piaget’s Pendulum Problem
- •Research project 1 Interviewing Friends about Dating
- •Research Project 2 Marcia’s Statuses of Identity
- •Research Project 1 College Students and the Use of Alcohol
- •Research Project 2 Motivation – The Values of Adolescents
- •Research Project 1 The Marriage Quiz
- •Research Project 2 Gender and Age Roles in Magazine Advertisements
- •Research Project 1 Song Lyric Values
- •Research Project 2 Archival Research
- •Research Project 1 Adult Stage Theories in Biographies
- •Research Project 2 Your Life Review
- •Research Project 1 Variations in Life-Expectancy
- •Research Project 2 Knowledge of Older Adults
- •Research Project 1 Free Recall among College Students and Older Adults
- •Research Project 2 Physical and Mental Health Care of the Elderly
- •Research Project 1 Collecting a Life Story
- •Research Project 2 Old People at College
- •Research Project 1 Experiencing Others’ Deaths
- •Research Project 2 Hospices in Your Community
Research Project 2 Motivation – The Values of Adolescents
The following project involves taking a survey of values using adolescent and college subjects. You need to make copies of the questionnaire and get six volunteer subjects to rank the values from 1(most important) to 16 (least important) in terms of their own personal life goals. You should get two subjects (one female and one male) from each of three age groups: 13 to 15 years old, 16 to 18 years old, and 19 to 21 years old. After collecting data, answer the questions about your six subjects.
Later, in class discussion (or by handout summary of the data) come to some conclusions about adolescent values based on the subject responses of the whole class.
TO THE SUBJECT: I would like you to volunteer to fill out this questionnaire on your life goals. Your responses will be kept confidential, and the only identifying data you need to provide is your age and gender. Please take a few moments to rank the following life goals from most important (1) to least important (16). You may have most of the following as life goals or hardly any as life goals. You are only indicating the relative order of their importance, not rating the importance of each goal. Put your ranking for each of the life goals in the blank provided.
DATASHEET
Achievement Gender:
Comfort Age:_________years
Contribution Do you view yourself as more:
Excellence ____ idea-centered
Fulfillment ____person-centered
Growth Do you view your beliefs as being:
Knowledge ____ fairly stable
Love ____fairly changeable
Peace Do you think your views are typical of others
Power your age?
Relationships ____ Yes
Security ____ No
Self-acceptance
Status
Truth
Wealth
Questions
What values were ranked most highly by adolescents? What values were least important? Were there many differences across subjects?
Do your subjects see themselves as person-centered or idea-centered? Do they see themselves as stable or changeable? Do they see themselves as typical?
Do you get a sense of whether there might be an age or gender difference in values? Develop some hypotheses that you can explore after you barn about the results gathered by all class members.
Chapter 15
Research Project 1 The Marriage Quiz
Figure 15.4 of Life-Span Development presents Jeffry Larson's Marriage Quiz. Larson used this to demonstrate that college students have relatively unrealistic views of marriage.
Do you agree? Do your peers have similarly unrealistic expectations of marriage? Find out by using the items from the quiz listed below. Make a copy (or copies) of the quiz and have as many college men and women that you know respond to it. If you can, get equal numbers of men and women, and representatives of first through last year college students.
Score respondents’ answers using the answer key given at the end of Chapter 15. Then determine the mean score (sum of scores/total scores). If you know how, also compute a standard deviation for the scores. If you were able to obtain responses from men and women in some or all different college classes (e.g., first through senior year), compute means (and standard deviations) for each group. Then prepare a table that displays these means. With the table as a base, write a brief report in which you indicate whether Larson's claims apply to your college or university. Be sure to answer these questions in your report:
1. On average, how many items did your respondents pass? 2. How did women compare to men?
How did younger respondents compare to older respondents?
Can you think of other comparisons to make, or other questions to ask, that would yield interesting ideas concerning young adults’ expectations about and knowledge of marriage?
Marriage Quiz Items
A husband's marital satisfaction is usually lower if his wife, is employed full time than if she is a full-time homemaker.
Today most young, single, never-married people will eventually get married.
In most marriages, having a child improves marital satisfaction for both spouses.
The best single predictor of overall marital satisfaction is the quality of the couple's sex life.
The divorce rate in America increased from I960 to 1980.
A greater percentage of wives are in the work force today than in 1970.
Marital satisfaction for a wife is usually lower if she is employed full time than if she is a full-time homemaker.
If my spouse loves me, she/he should instinctively know what I want and need to be happy.
In a marriage in which the wife is employed full time, the husband usually assumes equal share of the housekeeping.
For most couples, marital satisfaction gradually increases from the first years of marriage: through the childbearing years, the teen years, the empty nest, and retirement.
No matter how I behave, my spouse should love me simply because she/he is my spouse.
One of the most frequent marital problems is poor communication.
Husbands usually make even more life-style adjustments in marriage than wives.
Couples who cohabited before marriage usually report greater marital satisfaction than couples who did not.
I can change my spouse by pointing out her/his inadequacies, errors, etc.