PSY 211 Project Two Template
Use this template to complete your life-span theory exploration paper. Answer each question 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 information.
1. Identify a theorist, summarize their theory, and explain the aspects of that theory that relate to
the biological perspective.
[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
internal actions could only be obtained from that person's outside physical responses. Watson
considered that events and situations in any given environment are what causes behaviors to be
developed.]
2. Provide an of how this biological perspective of life-span development applies to your example
lived experience.
[An example of how this biological perspective of life-span development applies to my lived
experience is through the fact that me showing signs of depression and anxiety around the age
of thirteen. My anxiety and depression came from multiple issues including an alcoholic step-
father and the fact that my real father had committed suicide when I was very young. My
mother did not realize how much my step-father's actions had an effect on me and blamed most
of my problems with anxiety and depression on my real father being that he would not have
committed suicide if he had not suffered from anxiety and depression as well. She believed that
I was just predisposed to developing such issues because of my father's genetics.]
3. Identify a theorist, summarize their theory, and explain the aspects of that theory that relate to
the psychological perspective.
[The theorist I chose is the psychologist Sigmund Freud, whose theory was that the shaping of
an adult person's personality is heavily influenced on experiences and events from that person's
childhood. It was Freud's belief that people inherit behaviors from our parents/caregivers and
family because a person's behavior is dictated by that person's unconscious mind from his or her
