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Individual Development Narrative
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2. Please check some strange sentence, you can add or edit appropriate sentences.
3. I have to make socio-culture development related my lifespan and sum up the conclusion.
4. The reference (Mpofu) is wrong according to my tutor, but I can’t find. Can you find the correct
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Task;
Critically analyse a life story in relation to theories of lifespan development.
-the domains of development (physical, cognitive, emotional, socio-cultural and/ or moral)
-the biological and environmental influences on development, including examples that
demonstrate understanding of the nature and nurture argument.
Human development can be defined as a process of progressive changes and
stabilities of people that happens from a birth of a baby till death (Berk, 2009). The changes
are divided into five different domains; physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and moral
(Mpofu, 2010). Also, the changes are happening all the time in people’s lives and affect the
others as people grow through their life (Sigelman& Rider, 2006). In the IDN, I will explain
the five domains of development and the biological and environmental influences on the
development throughout my lifespan by using a number of theories including that of nature
nurture.
My parents had me when they were 30 years old and I was the first girl offspring in
the entire family. My uncles loved me very much and they came back to home early to see
me. When I was born, my grandmother was much surprised because I looked thoroughly like
my father. Since my parents are relatively tall and well-built, my weight and height were
more than other babies. Physical development is the growth of body, brain and genes
inherited from parents. It relates to changes in body size, compositions, looks, and abilities of
body organizations (Berk, 2009; Rice, 2001).Surprisingly, on the back of my father’s right
hand, there is a blue mole and I also have the same sized and coloured mole on the same side
of my right hand (genetic and biological influence). In accordance with my paternal
grandmother, my appearance and size of body totally took after my father’s side.Those can be
fully explained by the dynamic system theory of influence of motor development which
indicates the capability of motor skill (Berk, 2009). Whenever my father had me in his arms,
other people said that I looked exactly like my father. A few months later, I started standing
up, crawling and speaking more rapidly than other babies of the same age.
Jean Piaget, one of the powerful theorists focusing on children’s cognitive
development, indicated that children acquire constantly through experiences. He used a
systematic model to describe and define individual development according to the basic
cognitive development in four typical categories; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete
operational, and formal operational (Berk, 2009). During infancy, I started scanning objects
and grabbing them by myself with advanced motor and perceptual skills. Also I liked to go
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and be with my mum and I could distinguish people, places and objects and also was able to
feel the fear whenever I was with strangers, and not with my parents. At this stage, babies can
grow trust and mistrust. They are much closer to caregivers who are emotionally related. It
can be explained through theories given by Berk in 2009 and Rice in 2001 on knowing other
people through changes in emotional communication, personality, friendships and intimate
relationships. I began playing with toys alone by grabbing and mouthing and fitting certain
shapes of block to holes that matched the shapes. In addition, while I was 8 months old, I
finally spoke words such as “mama” and “papa” and sometimes, I solved problems like
getting a toy by standing on a lower chair. According to my mother, I became stubborn from
this stage, and this made her so stressful. It can be explained through the analysis of the
sensorimotor stage (0-2 years) of the...