Directions
The text discusses five different theories in developmental psychology and how each can attempt to explainvarious developmental phenomenafrom a different angle. For this assignment you are going to think about how the different developmental theories might try to understand a specific behavior.
1) Pickoneof the following concepts to analyze.
2) Foreach of the five developmental theories(psychoanalytic behavioral cognitive sociocultural and universal perspective/Humanism and Evolutionary Theory) write a brief explanation of the theory and then describe how it might try to understand the concept you chose.
Write your essay in a word processing program( providing250 -300 words ) and save the essay to your computer as a .doc ordocxfile(Microsoft Word format). This is the format we will use for most essays in this course. Click the link above calledDevelopmental theories assignmentsubmission and attach your file. ViewSubmitting an Assignmentif you need help with this step. Be sure to click the Submit button or I will not receive your file.
Purpose
This assignment gives you practice applying what you are learning to explain human behavior and then provides the opportunity to see everyone’s ideas. We can learn a lot from each other comparing our interpretations of what we read.
text book Berger K. (2014). The Developing PersonThrough the Life Span (9th ed.).New York: Worth.