This is my second
psychology class and I am a social work major which will allow me to relate
human psychology to my field of study. In my first psych class we discussed
about the mind and how it functions and now this class we will discuss about
the human life span and development. While reading this first chapter from our text it created
many thoughts to come to my mind about our society and how each of us as
individuals are affected daily by life. This opening chapter allowed me to gain
an understanding of how individuals I may be working with in the social work
field develops and why they have certain views, values, morals...etc.
One thing that I
found really fascinating about chapter one is the multidirectional development.
I never really thought about the process of how individuals change over time until
putting into perspective of what our text points out about changes that happen
over one’s life time. One example is a child growing and developing from the
age of two to ten. Researchers have pointed out that we go through ups and
downs and steady marks which not create development but changes to our body and
minds. Not only is development multidirectional in changes but they are also
multicontextual. Multicontextual means that not only is our body developing
through changes of stages of age/ life but the area or climate around us
affects how we develop.
What do you think
that researchers are discovering in recent studies about our current culture
and how it affects the younger generation’s development?
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