Developmental Psychology Personal Timeline

 

Assignment:               Create a timeline of the following aspects of your Child / Adolescent development: 

·         physical (biological or mile-stones in your life)

·         development

·          cognitive (mental) development, 

·         moral (right and wrong) development,

·         emotional (learning how to deal with difficult things) development

·          social (learning how to deal with others) development. 

 

Use a different color to show each of the different aspects (example physical in red, cognitive in black, and moral in green). 

 

This is to be a personal, not generic timeline.  Your information should be your actual information.

 

Don’t show at  age 2: “before age 2 most children are in the sensorimotor stage of development. 

 

Do show  “at age 5 I took my brother’s GI Joe doll and would not return it.  I believed it was mine.  Egocentrism, Preoperational stage.“

 

Materials:            Large sheet of construction or oak-tag paper, computer generated (if desired), different color writing utensils (crayons, markers, etc), pictures (if possible), other (be creative it’s your timeline)         

 

Grading:              This will count as a major grade for the section on Developmental Psychology.  You will be graded in 2 ways--  creativity/perceived effort (your effort, teacher’s perception) (50%) and content (50%) (how well you represent each of the stages of development) TOTAL POINTS VALUE IS 50

 

Due Date is      Friday   A-day 11/02/07

LATE WORK WILL LOSE 5 POINTS PER DAY UP TO 3 DAYS (all A & B days and weekends are included).

 

The grade from this project will come from two different areas:

Content is worth 25 points-- (number of items and having all of the

areas covered)  I would think 50 entries would earn all 25 points for content, 40 would earn 20 points, 30 would earn 15, less then 15 will earn 10 points)

 

            Perceived Effort & Creativity is worth 25 points—(Your effort & my

perception)  I will compare your uniqueness and effort to those of your classmates.  Mostly you can ask yourself the following question—Does my project look like I threw it together in about an hour.  If so you won’t score high.  If it looks like you took great care and paid attention to detail you will receive all 25 points.