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Developmental psychology seeks to address various aspects of human development, including physical, cognitive, social, moral, and personality development.
Write at least a 1100-word paper discussing the influences on physical and cognitive development.
Select one of the stages of development below as the focus of your paper.
- Early childhood: from 1-6 years
- Middle childhood: from 6-12 years
- Adolescence: from 12-18 years
- Early adulthood: from 18-40 years
Address the following in relation to the selected stage:
- What factors affect physical development? Consider hereditary and environmental influences. Provide examples.
- What factors affect cognitive development? Consider hereditary and environmental influences. Provide examples.
- What factors affect social, moral, and personality development? Describe the factors by explaining at least two theoretical perspectives associated with social, moral, and personality development.
Include at least two peer-reviewed sources.
Format your paper with APA guidelines.
Chapter 9 and 11 from this link related to this question (read them): https://openstaxcollege.org/files/textbook_version/hi_res_pdf/30/Psychology-OP.pdf
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They may be available only to a small minority of wealthy individuals who can afford them.C. They may fail to receive the kind of study and attention that front-door enhancements would receive.D. They may undermine our human nature.E. They might be corrupting of otherwise good people's characters by disposing them to illegal activity. 4. According to the master engineer argument, genetic enhancements are morally wrong because:A. We should not attempt to genetically enhance people until the scientific community attains the status of a master engineer, metaphorically speaking.B. They represent a drive for mastery.C. There will never be a master scientist or engineer who can guarantee the safety of genetic enhancements.D. Mastery is a vice, not a virtue, and enhancements aim at mastery. E. Evolution is like a master engineer, so any genetic modification to ourselves will be for the worse.5. By Pleistocene hangovers, Buchanan means:A. 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This discussion question is informed by the following CACREP Standard(s):
2.F.2.a. Multicultural and pluralistic characteristics within and among diverse groups nationally and internationally.
2.F.2.b. Theories and models of multicultural counseling, cultural identity development, and social justice and advocacy.
2.F.2.c. Multicultural counseling competencies.
2.F.2.d. The impact of heritage, attitudes, beliefs, understandings, and acculturative experiences on an individual’s views of others.
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It is an extreme position to think that human beings are strongly connected to each other.B. It is an extreme position to think that human beings are not strongly connected to each other.C. Given expected inequalities of access to biomedical enhancements, the social connectedness of people will be put under extreme strain.D. Various aspects of a human being are closely tied to one another.E. Various aspects of a human being are not closely tied to one another.8. Buchanan believes that a change to our human nature:A. Would threaten to destroy our evaluative anchor or what we think of as morally good for human beings.B. Would threaten to destroy what we take to be a virtuous character.C. Would be undesirable because it would threaten to bring about a post-human, apocalyptic phase in our existence.D. May or may not improve the quality of our lives depending upon the details of the change in question.E. Must be avoided because it would threaten to destroy the essence of who we are.9. 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This discussion question is informed by the following CACREP Standard(s):
2.F.2.a. Multicultural and pluralistic characteristics within and among diverse groups nationally and internationally.
2.F.2.b. Theories and models of multicultural counseling, cultural identity development, and social justice and advocacy.
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2.F.2.d. The impact of heritage, attitudes, beliefs, understandings, and acculturative experiences on an individual’s views of others.
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Jones-Smith, E. (2019). Culturally diverse counseling: Theory and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc. ISBN-13: 9781483388267
URL:
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