Explain how your cognitive developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in early adulthood.

Developmental Cultural Autobiography Critical Thinking Writing Assignment
Learning Outcomes:
1. Analyze major developmental theories and concepts in order to evaluate development throughout the lifespan
2. Describe the basic developmental patterns and typical developmental milestones reached in Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, and Early Adulthood
3. Analyze the influence of social and cultural variables (i.e., culture, race, gender, and socioeconomic class) on human development through the lifespan
4. Explain the biological, cognitive, and socioemotional aspects of development and how they are interconnected through the lifespan
Product:
Write a 5-7 page autobiographical essay (not including title and references pages) in which you will discuss, apply, and analyze developmental course content in order to examine significant events that shaped your physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development throughout the lifespan. This assignment is required to be in APA Style, 7th ed.
Required Sources:
The required textbook for this course and two instructor-approved empirical studies OR instructor approved scholarly articles published after 2010 must be used to make connections and support the statements in your developmental autobiography.
Finding Empirical Studies OR Scholarly Articles from the CSM Library Databases:
Review the Empirical Research Using CSM Library Databases video below from our wonderful librarian, Mary Johnson. This recording will help students successfully find the TWO required empirical studies or scholarly articles for instructor approval for this assignment. https://youtu.be/s81JkrPjAC8
• If you are using empirical studies, then locate TWO full-text, short empirical psychological studies. These empirical studies must have the traditional sections associated with an empirical research study (abstract, introduction (literature review), methods, results, discussion, references). If you are not sure, check with your instructor or the CSM librarian at library@csmd.edu). Empirical studies must be approved by your instructor.
• If you are using empirical studies, then the empirical studies must use one of the research methods used in psychology. Some examples of research methods include correlational, questionnaires, observations, case studies, interviews, and experiments.
• What IS NOT an empirical study? A newspaper article, an entry in a dictionary or encyclopedia (Wikipedia or other Wikis), an article from a popular magazine (Time, Newsweek, Psychology Today, etc.), an article you got from a non-CSM Library database, a review of past research/meta-analyses, dissertations/theses, reviews of literature, opinion articles, anything from Lumen Learning or similar sites, or any other types of articles.
Searching for Empirical Studies:
To search for empirical studies, use the electronic databases available through CSM Library. These databases include ProQuest and EBSCO. In ProQuest, search ProQuest Social Science Journals. In EBSCO, search Academic Search Premier or other career pathway/discipline specific databases. You can access those databases by logging into my.CSMD and accessing the library. During CSM’s restricted access, you can access library databases at Library Services – Find Books or Articles. If you need assistance, please email a librarian for help at library@csmd.edu.
APA Style, 7th ed. Writing Style Required:
See the APA 7th ed. Student Paper located in the myLearning Module ‘Resources: Avoiding Plagiarism & Using APA Style 7th ed.’ for specific APA format.
EACH part of this assignment is required to be completed in APA Style, 7th ed., which includes:
1. An APA Style, 7th ed. title page
2. An APA Style, 7th ed. page numbering in the upper right corner beginning with 1 on the title page
3. In-text citations in APA Style 7th ed. format. Put all source information (theory, concepts, instructor-approved sources, etc.) into your own words using college level language, and then appropriately cite the source in APA style, 7th ed.
4. A references page at the end of the paper (called References) in APA format
APA Style, 7th ed. Resources:
1. Using In-text Citations: Using In-Text Citations – Do Not Use Direct Quotes – Put source information into your own words using college level language and then cite the source.
2. How to Format Your Paper in APA Style: How to format your paper in APA style
3. APA Style 7th ed.: APA Style 7th ed. YouTube Video
4. Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Grading:
This assignment is required and is worth 150 points. The rubric will be used to assess this assignment. Please review the rubric before you start this assignment.
Instructions:
Addressing the required components outlined in each section below, students will write an essay that will reflect significant events that shaped (or will shape when you project into later life) their physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development throughout the lifespan.
In addition to the written element of your essay, EACH of the required sections in the developmental autobiography must also include a visual timeline (illustrated representation) of the significant events that shaped your physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development unique to your development as reflected in your writing. Students must use original images that illustrate the significant events in their development. Use of copyrighted materials of any kind will result in a deduction of 25 points from your final paper grade.
Introduction
Required components:
• Briefly introduce yourself, including the following demographic characteristics: name, age, gender, socioeconomic class, ethnicity, cultural background, family composition, parental characteristics, and physical and psychological health issues of family members.
Part I: Infancy and Childhood
Required components:
Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved sources, and including the required APA Style, 7th ed. in-text citations:
• Clearly define and explain each, and then apply the following psychological theories and concepts to your development in Infancy, and then in Childhood:
1. Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
2. Attachment
3. Temperament
• Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved empirical studies OR two instructor-approved scholarly articles, explain how your own physical, cognitive, and socioemotional developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Infancy and Childhood. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
• Childhood Socioemotional development: Identify the two aspects of your group membership identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) that have been especially salient (powerful) in sharping your identity development. Unless approved by the instructor due to a significant shift in identify development, students must use the same two most salient group memberships identities throughout EACH of the developmental periods of the paper.
• Childhood Socioemotional development: For each group identity, describe a critical incident that shaped your development and the reasons you believe each of your group identities are most salient in your development. ** A critical incident is an event that shapes one’s personal identity development – either positively or negatively; it causes one to stop and reflect and raises questions about one’s beliefs, values, attitude, or behaviors; it produces a new and lasting shift and brings about insight about how one now sees oneself or how others now see you. You should select and write about the most salient critical incidents – the most meaningful, the most powerful critical incidents that have shaped your identity development.**
• Analyze (provide an explanation and interpretation for each) the influence of your two most salient group identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) have had on shaping your development in Childhood.
• Each section in your developmental autobiographical timeline should include visual representations of the significant events that shaped your physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development unique to your development as reflected in your writing. Students must use original images of artifacts/mementos that illustrate the significant events in their development. Use of copyrighted materials of any kind will result in a deduction of 25 points from your final paper grade.
Part II: Adolescence
Required components:
Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved sources, and including the required APA Style, 7th ed. in-text citations:
• Clearly define and explain each, and then apply the following psychological theories and concepts to your development in Adolescence:
1. Puberty
2. James Marcia’s Stages of Identity Development
3. Social identity
4. Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Reasoning
• Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved empirical studies OR two instructor-approved scholarly articles, explain how your own physical, cognitive, and socioemotional developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Adolescence. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
• Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved empirical studies OR two instructor-approved scholarly articles, explain how your own physical, cognitive, and socioemotional developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Adolescence. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
• Adolescence Socioemotional development: Identify the two aspects of your group membership identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) that have been especially salient (powerful) in sharping your identity development. Unless approved by the instructor due to a significant shift in identify development, students must use the same two most salient group memberships identities throughout EACH of the developmental periods of the paper.
• Adolescence Socioemotional development: For each group identity, describe a critical incident that shaped your development and the reasons you believe each of your group identities are most salient in your development. ** A critical incident is an event that shapes one’s personal identity development – either positively or negatively; it causes one to stop and reflect and raises questions about one’s beliefs, values, attitude, or behaviors; it produces a new and lasting shift and brings about insight about how one now sees oneself or how others now see you. You should select and write about the most salient critical incidents – the most meaningful, the most powerful critical incidents that have shaped your identity development.**
• Analyze (provide an explanation and interpretation for each) the influence of your two most salient group identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) have had on shaping your development in Adolescence.
• Each section in your developmental autobiographical timeline should include visual representations of the significant events that shaped your physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development unique to your development as reflected in your writing. Students must use original images of artifacts/mementos that illustrate the significant events in their development. Use of copyrighted materials of any kind will result in a deduction of 25 points from your final paper grade.
Part III: Early Adulthood
Required components:
Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved sources, and including the required APA Style, 7th ed. in-text citations:
• Clearly define and explain each, and then apply the following psychological theories and concepts to your development in Early Adulthood:
1. Parenting style
2. Social clock
3. Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development
• Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved empirical studies OR two instructor-approved scholarly articles, explain how your own physical, cognitive, and socioemotional developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Early Adulthood. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not/will not be.
• Early Adulthood Socioemotional development: Identify the two aspects of your group membership identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) that have been especially salient (powerful) in sharping your identity development. Unless approved by the instructor due to a significant shift in identify development, students must use the same two most salient group memberships identities throughout EACH of the developmental periods of the paper.
• Early Adulthood Socioemotional development: For each group identity, describe a critical incident that shaped your development and the reasons you believe each of your group identities are most salient in your development. ** A critical incident is an event that shapes one’s personal identity development – either positively or negatively; it causes one to stop and reflect and raises questions about one’s beliefs, values, attitude, or behaviors; it produces a new and lasting shift and brings about insight about how one now sees oneself or how others now see you. You should select and write about the most salient critical incidents – the most meaningful, the most powerful critical incidents that have shaped your identity development.**
• Early Adulthood: Analyze (provide an explanation and interpretation for each) the influence of your two most salient group identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) have had on shaping your development in Early Adulthood.
• Each section in your developmental autobiographical timeline should include visual representations of the significant events that shaped your physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development unique to your development as reflected in your writing. Students must use original images of artifacts/mementos that illustrate the significant events in their development. Use of copyrighted materials of any kind will result in a deduction of 25 points from your final paper grade.
Part IV: Critical Reflection
Required components:
• Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved empirical studies OR two instructor-approved scholarly articles, discuss how the interconnected aspects of your development throughout your lifespan discussed in the previous parts of the paper shaped (or will shape) you into the person you are today. In other words, critically reflect on the effects that both nature and nurture have had (or will have) on your development throughout your lifespan.
Writing Process and Assignments Timeline:
This is a complex assignment. Therefore, it is broken into manageable parts over the course of the term to prevent students from becoming overwhelmed, to provide support/feedback, and to increase student success. Each part of this assignment is REQUIRED. Students who choose to not submit EACH required part of this assignment should expect a grade on their final paper that reflects that choice.
Links are found in each week’s module for each part of this assignment. Pay attention to due dates for each task.
Week 1:
1. Review the assignment and rubric.
2. Begin reflecting and taking notes on significant events that shaped your physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development throughout each of the required developmental periods (Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, and Early Adulthood).
3. Begin searching for your two empirical studies OR two scholarly articles published after 2010 that you will use to make connections and support the statements in your developmental autobiography. These will be submitted for instructor-approval.
Week 2: Submit:
1. The two empirical studies OR the two scholarly articles for instructor-approval you plan to use to make connections and support the statements in your developmental autobiography. Submit ONLY downloaded PDF full-text sources for instructor approval. No links or shared sources will be accepted (i.e., Google Docs, OneDrive, etc.).
2. Submission of half-page summary of each empirical study or scholarly article
Week 3: Submit: Introduction & Infancy and Childhood
Week 4: Submit: Adolescence
Week 5: Submit:
1. Early Adulthood & Critical Reflection
2. Paper Outline
3. First completed draft of paper assignment to CSM ThinkingStorm. ThinkingStorm is our 24/7 virtual tutoring service. It is located on the right-hand side of the course homepage. No appointments are required. You should expect your draft with written feedback to be returned from ThinkingStorm within 48 hours.
Week 6: Submit: After making edits as recommended by CSM ThinkingStorm AND outline feedback from instructor, submit the final paper assignment in myLearning to instructor. A copy of the CSM ThinkingStorm feedback MUST be submitted with your final paper. An automatic 10-point deduction from your final paper grade will result if a copy of the CSM ThinkingStorm written feedback is not submitted with your final paper.
Paper Outline:
Submit paper outline using the required Roman numerals headings below. Your outline must be in complete sentences and all references (textbook, instructor-approved sources) must include in-text citations. Paper outline must be in APA style 7th ed.: include a title page, in-text citations, and a references page.
I. Introduction (approximately one half page)
A. Briefly introduce yourself, including the following demographic characteristics: gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, cultural background, family composition, parental characteristics, physical and psychological health issues of family members.
II. Infancy and Childhood (approximately two pages)
Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved sources, and including the required APA Style, 7th ed. in-text citations:
A. Clearly define and explain each, and then apply the following psychological theories and concepts to your development in Infancy, and then in Childhood:
a. Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
b. Attachment
c. Temperament
B. Developmental patterns and typical milestones
a. Explain how your physical developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Infancy. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
b. Explain how your cognitive developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Infancy. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
c. Explain how your socioemotional developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Infancy. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not
d. Explain how your physical developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Childhood. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
e. Explain how your cognitive developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Childhood. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
f. Explain how your socioemotional developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Childhood. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
C. Childhood Socioemotional development: Two aspects of your group membership identities
a. Childhood Socioemotional development: Identify the two aspects of your group membership identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) that have been especially salient (powerful) in sharping your identity development. Unless approved by the instructor due to a significant shift in identify development, students must use the same two most salient group memberships identities throughout EACH of the developmental periods of the paper.
b. Childhood Socioemotional development: For each group identity, describe a critical incident that shaped your development and the reasons you believe each of your group identities are most salient in your development. ** A critical incident is an event that shapes one’s personal identity development – either positively or negatively; it causes one to stop and reflect and raises questions about one’s beliefs, values, attitude, or behaviors; it produces a new and lasting shift and brings about insight about how one now sees oneself or how others now see you. You should select and write about the most salient critical incidents – the most meaningful, the most powerful critical incidents that have shaped your identity development.**
c. Analyze (provide an explanation and interpretation for each) the influence of your two most salient group identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) have had on shaping your development in Childhood.
III. Adolescence (approximately one two pages)
Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved sources, and including the required APA Style, 7th ed. in-text citations:
A. Clearly define and explain each, and then apply the following psychological theories and concepts to your development in Adolescence:
a. Puberty
b. James Marcia’s Stages of Identity Development
c. Social identity
d. Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Reasoning
B. Developmental patterns and typical milestones
a. Explain how your physical developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Adolescence. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
b. Explain how your cognitive developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Adolescence. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
c. Explain how your socioemotional developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Adolescence. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
C. Adolescence Socioemotional development: Two aspects of your group membership identities
a. Identify the two aspects of your group membership identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) that have been especially salient (powerful) in sharping your identity development. Unless approved by the instructor due to a significant shift in identify development, students must use the same two most salient group memberships identities throughout EACH of the developmental periods of the paper.
b. Adolescence Socioemotional development: For each group identity, describe a critical incident that shaped your development and the reasons you believe each of your group identities are most salient in your development. ** A critical incident is an event that shapes one’s personal identity development – either positively or negatively; it causes one to stop and reflect and raises questions about one’s beliefs, values, attitude, or behaviors; it produces a new and lasting shift and brings about insight about how one now sees oneself or how others now see you. You should select and write about the most salient critical incidents – the most meaningful, the most powerful critical incidents that have shaped your identity development.**
c. Analyze (provide an explanation and interpretation for each) the influence of your two most salient group identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) have had on shaping your development in Adolescence.
IV: Early Adulthood (approximately two pages)
Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved sources, and including the required APA Style, 7th ed. in-text citations:
A. Clearly define and explain each, and then apply the following psychological theories and concepts to your development in Early Adulthood:
a. Parenting style
b. Social clock
c. Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development
B. Early Adulthood: Developmental patterns and typical milestones
a. Explain how your physical developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Early Adulthood. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
b. Explain how your cognitive developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Early Adulthood. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
c. Explain how your socioemotional developmental patterns and typical milestones were typical of those reached in Early Adulthood. If not typical, based on course content, explain how and why they were not.
C. Early Adulthood Socioemotional development: Two aspects of your group membership identities
a. Early Adulthood Socioemotional development: Identify the two aspects of your group membership identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) that have been especially salient (powerful) in sharping your identity development. Unless approved by the instructor due to a significant shift in identify development, students must use the same two most salient group memberships identities throughout EACH of the developmental periods of the paper.
b. Early Adulthood Socioemotional development: For each group identity, describe a critical incident that shaped your development and the reasons you believe each of your group identities are most salient in your development. ** A critical incident is an event that shapes one’s personal identity development – either positively or negatively; it causes one to stop and reflect and raises questions about one’s beliefs, values, attitude, or behaviors; it produces a new and lasting shift and brings about insight about how one now sees oneself or how others now see you. You should select and write about the most salient critical incidents – the most meaningful, the most powerful critical incidents that have shaped your identity development.**
c. Early Adulthood Socioemotional development: Analyze (provide an explanation and interpretation for each) the influence of your two most salient group identities (i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, ability, national origin, religion) have had on shaping your development in Early Adulthood.
V. Critical Reflection (approximately one half page)
Using specific examples and making connections to the course content from the textbook and the two instructor-approved sources, and including the required APA Style, 7th ed. in-text citations:
A. Based on the content used in the previous parts of the paper, discuss how the interconnected aspects of your development throughout your lifespan shaped (or will shape) you into the person you are today. In other words, critically reflect on the effects that both nature and nurture have had (or will have) on your development throughout your lifespan.
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