Module 7 Project Two

PSY 211 Project Two Template

Use this template to complete your life-span theory exploraon paper. Answer each queson with a

minimum of 3 to 5 sentences. Support your answers with credible sources when appropriate. Complete

this template by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant informaon.

1. Idenfy a theorist, summarize their theory, and explain the aspects of that theory that relate to

the biological perspecve.

[The theorist that I chose the psychologist John Watson known for his theory of behaviorism

focusing on the outside behaviors of a person. Watson's theory was that insight into a person's

experience is through the fact that me showing signs of depression and anxiety around the age

of thirteen. My anxiety and depression came from mulple issues including an alcoholic step-

father and the fact that my real father had commi/ed suicide when I was very young. My

mother did not realize how much my step-father's acons had an e0ect on me and blamed most

of my problems with anxiety and depression on my real father being that he would not have

commi/ed suicide if he had not su0ered from anxiety and depression as well. She believed that

I was just predisposed to developing such issues because of my father's genecs.]

3. Idenfy a theorist, summarize their theory, and explain the aspects of that theory that relate to

the psychological perspecve.

[The theorist I chose is the psychologist Sigmund Freud, whose theory was that the shaping of

unconscious mind and manifest later on in adulthood (Mcleod, S., 1970).]

4. Provide an example of how this psychological perspecve of life-span development applies to

your lived experience.

[An example of how this psychological perspecve of life-span development applies to my lived

experience is with my struggles with depression and anxiety in the stages of my adolescence and

early adulthood. This had much to do with the trauma I experienced from growing up in a

somewhat dysfunconal environment with an alcoholic step-father who treated me poorly

because I was not his child. I began showing signs of depression and anxiety when I reached the

age of thirteen. Luckily, a=er my step father was no longer in my life, my anxiety and depression

were not as hard for me to cope with and I ended up beginning therapy which helped even

preoperaonal stage, the concrete operaonal stage, and the formal operaonal stage. She

believed that the willingness or unwillingness to perceive and deal with environmental smuli is

what creates a child's schema (Mcleod, S., 2020) and that our environment and surroundings

are constantly changing us as we develop. The schemas that a child develops closely resemble

those of the people around us such as our parents/caregivers and connue on into our

adulthood depending on our surroundings later on.]

6. Provide an example of how this social perspecve of life-span development applies to your lived

experience.

[An example of how this social perspecve of life-span development applies to my lived

experience is how the schemas that I may have developed at an early age in relaon to how to

[It is important to analyze the life span from a combined biological, psychological, and social

perspecve because each of these perspecves correlate and intertwine with the other. If we

analyze a life span from just one perspecve or the other, we are unable to see the whole

picture or a person's development as a whole. “Only with all the di0erent types of psychology,

which somemes contradict one another (nature-nurture debate), overlap with each other (e.g.

psychoanalysis and child psychology) or build upon one another (biological and health

psychologist) can we understand and create e0ecve soluons when problems arise, so we have

a healthy body and a healthy mind” (Mcleod, S., 1970).]

References:

Mcleod, S. (1970, January 1). "Sigmund Freud's Theories." Simply Psychology.