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Week # 5 Discussion Board: Cognitive Development, Trait Theory and Big Five Personality Test
Chapter 9 Tutorial: Cognitive Development
The tutorial that you have already completed for chapter 9, entitled Cognitive Development, you can find here. (Links to an external site.)
As you know, this Tutorial focuses on the pioneering work of Swiss Psychologist, Jean Piaget.
Complete the tutorial (and remember that you do not need to “submit” your responses to me)…then comment here in the Discussion Board for this week about this Tutorial (see questions below).
How did the testing of the 3 children clarify the material you covered in Chapter 9 of the text?
Did it help you to see Piaget’s concepts in action?
Chapter 10: Trait Theory and Big Five Personality Test
The “Big Five” Personality theory is one that is adopted by many trait theorists. A great deal of research on personality and human development has been completed on the Big Five traits.
This site allows you to actually take a Personality Test that is a measurement of the Big Five personality dimensions.
Take the test, review your results, and incorporate your thoughts on this experience here, and tell us what you learned about Trait theory in Chapter 10 and about the Big Five.
Lesson: Chapter 10 Personality
One of the most fundamental tendencies of human beings is to size up other people. We say that Bill is fun, that Marian is adventurous, or that Frank is dishonest. When we make these statements, we mean that we believe that these people have stable individual characteristics—their personalities. Personality is defined as an individual’s consistent patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving .
The tendency to perceive personality is a fundamental part of human nature, and a most adaptive one. If we can draw accurate generalizations about what other people are normally like, we can predict how they will behave in the future, and this can help us determine how they are likely to respond in different situations. Understanding personality can also help us better understand psychological disorders and the negative behavioral outcomes they may produce. In short, personality matters because it guides behavior.
In this chapter we will consider the wide variety of personality traits found in human beings. We’ll consider how and when personality influences our behavior, and how well we perceive the personalities of others. We will also consider how psychologists measure personality, and the extent to which personality is caused by nature versus nurture. The fundamental goal of personality psychologists is to understand what makes people different from each other (the study of individual differences), but they also find that people who share genes have a remarkable similarity in personality.
Lesson: Lifespan Development
The goal of this chapter (9) is to investigate the fundamental, complex, and essential process of human development. Development refers to the physiological, behavioral, cognitive, and social changes that occur throughout human life, which are guided by both genetic predispositions (nature) and by environmental influences (nurture). We will begin our study of development at the moment of conception, when the father’s sperm unites with the mother’s egg, and then consider prenatal development in the womb. The chapter then will focus on infancy, the developmental stage that begins at birth and continues to one year of age, and childhood, the period between infancy and the onset of puberty, as well as the developmental changes that occur during adolescence—the years between the onset of puberty and the beginning of adulthood; the stages of adulthood itself, including emerging, early, middle, and older adulthood; and finally, the preparations for and eventual facing of death.
Each of the stages of development has its unique physical, cognitive, and emotional changes that define the stage and that make each stage unique.
Since this is a process that we all experience, I think you will find the material interesting, no matter where you are personally in this developmental process.