I’m thinking about my final term paper in the developmental psychology class walking around my house in the morning. This paper requires me to choose a significant person in my life and apply developmental understanding to his or her experience. In addition, I have to write about the signs and markers of the stages he or she has been through along with the outer changes that have accompanied the stage transformations.
Umm, I have two challenges. First, who should I choose in my paper? Second, how can I analyze and assess his or her developmental levels? The last one is a little bit difficult. I’m not sure about the data in analyzing and assessing. Is that an interview article or a book if I choose a celebrity (e.g. a famous CEO or president) whom I’ve never met before?
Anyway, I have no other choice to rely on “language” which he or she spoke. I think “language” is the important data to analyze and assess developmental levels. That is because we express our thoughts, emotions, sensations, and feelings by means of words.
However, we should be careful to analyze and assess his or her language. In my view, language is not a perfect tool to reveal all thoughts, emotions, sensations, and feelings correctly. Moreover, language is dependent on contexts… Therefore, language is sometimes the reliable data but sometimes the unreliable data.
This paper is an interesting and challenging staff for me.
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