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CHFD342 Human Life Span Development

Week 2 Assignment 1

Cultural Differences in Caring for Infants

The major assumptions of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development are that infants are active agents in constructing knowledge and that the interaction of experience and biology leads to growth and development. The cultural-contextual view agrees with these assumptions but adds two more: (1) other people make active contributions to infant development, and (2) cultural practices, which reflect the dominant beliefs and values of a culture, shape infant interaction with others and, ultimately, shape cognitive development. Variations in sleeping and feeding behaviors reflect the role of infants in a culture. Beliefs about babies in different cultures determine how they are treated, who interacts with them, and, consequently, how babies experience their world.

Choose a culture other than your own, and fill in the chart with details contrasting how the 2 cultures care for infants.  Use at least 2 resources, cited using APA style, to support your assertions about the different culture’s ways of caring for infants.  Before completing this assignment, be sure that you understand the definition of culture.  Here is a resource that may be helpful.  What is culture?  Your references need to relate to concepts learned about culture and child care  and must be scholarly/academic in nature.  Use of .com websites is not appropriate.

 

 

	My own culture (give it a name):	A different culture:
Sleeping
Feeding
Who are primary caretakers
Games and toys
Role of father

 

 

CHFD342 Human Life Span Development

Week 4 Assignment 2

Over the course of this week’s Lesson, we have looked at middle childhood development across each of the developmental domains.  For this assignment, we are going to take a more in depth look at cognitive development as viewed by Jean Piaget.  Piaget identified this stage of development as the concrete operational period, a time when logical thought and rational thinking evolve.  Three of the most commonly mentioned concepts around cognitive development during this time period are conservation, classification and seriation.  For this assignment, you are asked to do the following.  

Briefly summarize each concept. Additionally, provide an example of how each concept may impact a child's functioning in a home, educational and social setting.

Using APA formatting, include a title page, body (with intro and conclusion), in- text citations and reference page with a minimum of 3 academic references (textbooks, peer reviewed research articles-- using the APUS online library is recommended). Submission should be 2-3 pages in length.

To help you get started, please review the following article detailing Piaget’s concrete operational period.  (IMPORTANT NOTE:  this resource is to help you get started it CANNOT be used as one of your sources.  You are expected to do additional research).

 https://www.simplypsychology.org/concrete-operational.html

 

CHFD342 Human Life Span Development

Week 6 Assignment 3

Baby Boomers in Middle Adulthood

The largest segment of the U.S. population, the “baby boomers,” are moving into middle adulthood and, in some cases, even becoming grandparents. The advertising and marketing industries study this age cohort, and it has been increasing in visibility in primetime television, print ads, and in digital advertising, pop-ups, and internet solicitation.

Find at least 4 images or video clips of advertising or other popular media that illustrate this point.  Use a caption for each piece of media to explain the advertisements mirror the specific physical and cognitive changes in development referred to in our readings and resources this week.  Your captions should combine for a total of no fewer than 500 words.

Use at least 2 resources (other than the images or clips) to support the claims you are making.  Cite these using APA formatting.  Your references need to relate to concepts learned about middle adulthood and must be scholarly/academic in nature.  Use of .com websites is not appropriate.

 

CHFD342 Human Life Span Development

Week 8 Assignment 4

Thinking about Retirement

Think about your own retirement. In a 5 paragraph essay of at least 500 words, answer some or all of these questions:

Do you expect to retire at a certain age? How much preplanning will you need to do? Do you expect to retire to a life of leisure, volunteer activity, new career, and so on? Where will you live—same family home, retirement community, part of the year in the north and part in a southern resort? Do you expect to be active grandparents/great-grandparents or somewhat disengaged from your offsprings’ families? What are your overall impressions of retirement—is it positive, neutral, or negative? Why? Use at least 2 references to support your assumptions.  Your references need to relate to concepts learned about retirement and must be scholarly/academic in nature.  Use of .com websites is not appropriate.