Discussion board assignment: After you familiarized yourself with the material we are discussing for that week, please go to the discussion board.
**YOU WILL DO TWO PERSONAL COMMENTS per chapter about either a concept (a new term, theoretical construct, or research finding) or a video on the assignment sheet.** Please label the two personal comments indicating which you are writing about. Videos are located in the “assignment berk ch 7 sheet” in the files.
Please add a critique and share your thoughts and opinions. Your post may include comments such as what did you like or not like with regards to the concept or video? What did it make you think about? Can you apply this information to the real world? Would you like to learn more about this?
Discussion board assignment: After you familiarized yourself with the material we are discussing for that week, please go to the discussion board.
**You will do TWO personal comments per chapter about either a concept (a new term, theoretical construct, or research finding), or a video on the assignment sheet.** Please label the two personal comments indicating which you are writing about. Videos are located in the “assignment berk ch 9 sheet” in the files.
Please add a critique and share your thoughts and opinions. Your post may include comments such as what did you like or not like with regards to the concept or video? What did it make you think about? Can you apply this information to the real world? Would you like to learn more about this?
***Your personal comments should be thoughtful and substantive and should be at least 150 words. Your peer comments should be at least 75 words. They should be responsive to the prompt and show ample evidence of having reviewed and completed the relevant readings or assignments***
***Attached in files, you find an assignment sheet that was created to further highlight concepts found in your textbook. Please read the assignment sheets for clarification of concepts and watch the videos to heighten your understanding.
Textbook: Berger, K.S. (2022). Invitation to the Lifespan, 5th Ed., N.Y. Worth Publishers. ISBN: 13: 978-1-319-33198-6
After you have written your personal comments, please look at what your peers have written and respond to 2 of your classmates.
PART 1: Discussion Ch 14: Late Adulthood: Body and Mind
***Peer responses you will comment on:
First Response:
Second response:
First Response:
Adolescents exhibit unique cognitive and emotional characteristics, including egocentrism, where they believe everyone sees the world from their perspective. This stage is marked by the “imaginary audience,” where teens believe everyone is focused on them, and the “personal fable,” where they think their experiences are unique and incomparable to others. These features can cause heightened self-consciousness, especially during puberty when physical changes amplify the adolescent’s sense of being observed. Their belief in their invincibility, or the “invincibility fable,” leads to risky behaviors, like unsafe driving or engaging in alcohol and substance use, because they do not believe negative consequences apply to them.
The transition to Piaget’s formal operational stage enables adolescents to engage in abstract thinking, but they may still rely on emotional and heuristic reasoning due to the incomplete development of their prefrontal cortex. This can result in impulsive decisions driven by the limbic system, which matures faster than the cortex. Social issues like cyberbullying, sexting, and internet addiction also affect adolescents, often exacerbating self-esteem issues. A supportive environment, particularly from teachers and caregivers, can help mitigate these challenges by fostering a sense of mastery, self-efficacy, and resilience.
Second response:
One of the exciting topics I encountered in this chapter is self-theories, or how older adults continue to embrace their identity and self. Stratification of different social factors such as age, gender, and income levels provided an exciting view of how aging is influenced by these factors in society. The information that social relationships play a critical role during late adulthood, especially friendship and family, was rather revealing. I also liked the focus on activities of daily living (ADLs) and how they apply to how independence becomes a concern. The issues of long-term care, caregiving, and potential elder abuse were rather somber topics that raised awareness of the difficulties of aging in contemporary society.