Human Development Across the Life Span: Reflection and Analysis

This assignment is a reflective analysis of human development across the life span. The student examines the impact of developmental rates on self-esteem, both positively and negatively, and explores how cultural norms have influenced their personal development, including instances of discrimination and restrictions on individual liberty. The assignment identifies inherited traits like conscientiousness and neuroticism, and unique characteristics such as perseverance, consistency, and emotional depth. It also highlights environmental forces like generasibility and patience. The student then discusses the intertwining nature of genetic and environmental factors and concludes by considering ethical principles, specifically informed consent in studies involving adolescents, and whether exceptions to parental consent might be justifiable in certain research scenarios. The assignment utilizes personal experiences and reflections to illustrate key concepts in human development and provides a bibliography of related academic sources.

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Human Development across the Life span
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Question 1: Rate of Development in the path of the restriction of the self-esteem either in a
positive or a negative manner.
Answer: In my entire lifetime, there have been various instances when the desire of
development hindered my path of sustaining the self-esteem levels. However, the mechanism
underlying with this association still remains unknown as long as the adolescents with lower
levels of self-esteem will remain vulnerable to the very progressive symptoms of
development. One of the main hindrance in the path of development is depression and
emotional turbulence.
Often with the ever ending urge to develop and grow, I have suffered from severe depression
and mental turbulence. It has definitely affected my self-esteem and the way how I visualize
myself. This is the negative effect of development on self-esteem., however the positive
effect is that the urge of developing myself has given me the opportunity every time to
redefine myself and rediscover my capabilities and the priorities of life. The process of self-
analysis can be a very big factor why the self-esteem levels tends to reduce in the early
adolescent period and it rises in the later adolescent period.
Question 2: The way in which my culture has been a restricting factor in my path of
development.
Answer: The role of culture is very significant on the path of development of any individual.
The cultural code of conducts of an individual often facilitates the process of the individual
struggle for development. However, it has a negative aspect also. Often the cultural norms
binds the individual liberty and restricts him from expressing oneself through their different
activities. The most negative affect of culture is the concept of discrimination. The cultural
values often lead to discrimination among the different individuals on the basis of their
cultural values. The aspect of culture or the different religious norms often block the path of

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the role of women, which is the main reason why more than half of the population are
deprived of the basic education and sociopolitical rights that contributes to their overall
development. Certain cultural norms also believes in that women should be restricted from
the workplaces which has hampers the dignity of women of a nation and of course reduces
the earning potential of an economy as a whole.
Question 3: Traits, characteristics and capabilities that I have inherited.
Answer: I have inherited certain traits and characteristics right from my childhood. One
common trait that I have inherited is that of conscientiousness that was useful to determine
the level of my work ethics. As a result of this characteristic trait I have been always very
conscious about the work ethics along with my productivity levels in work. The trait of
neuroticism has restricted my growth and development in certain aspects. The trait of
neuroticism refers to the level of anxiety or shame that is felt by me in every activities of life.
Before taking any decision or performing any act, I have faced high anxiety levels or a sense
of hesitation or fear within me. These hereditary traits have also resulted in the sense of
vulnerability or stress and certain leadership problems in my path of development.
Question: 4: The traits that make me unique.
The traits that make me unique are perseverance, consistency and emotions. The consistency
trait of perseverance has always helped me to cling with the desires made by me in my
lifetime. In spite of certain challenges and hurdles that has come on my way, I have always
learnt to resume with my struggles and hard work in order to achieve my desired goals. The
trait of consistency refers to the continuous efforts to accomplish my desires in spite of
certain breaks and challenges in the path of the accomplishment of the desired work. The
third trait which I feel has definitely made me unique are the presence of emotions in all
aspect of my work.

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Question 5: The environmental forces that has highly influenced me.
The environmental force that has influenced me a lot is that of generasibility. The trait of
generasibility in me has helped me to decide the physical activity and the execution of the
different physical evidence and their reporting and designing of the different interventions in
order to promote the different levels of physical activity. The different environmental forces
has also made me learn the trait of patience. The patience of nature and its endurance level
has taught me to be patient for the correct time in life. I t has helped me to endure with all the
lifetime disasters and still positively wait for the correct time when everything will be set
fine. The environmental trait shave also taught me to be kind with the people surrounding me
as the environment does by providing shelter, food clothing and the other necessities of life.
Question 6: The intertwining structure of the theorists regarding the environmental and the
genetic factors?
Answer: There is a certain relation between the genetic and the environmental factors that
includes the certain risk factors for the mental wellbeing of any individual. The
decomposition analysis of Cholesky are performed within the Mx Program. The risk factors
includes the externalizing of the psychopathy that are positively related with the mental
wellbeing of any individual. The prediction of this psychopathy will influence the higher
levels of the consistent form of the mental wellbeing. The strongest risk factor is the low
level of the mental wellbeing and the other generic factors that will impact the higher levels
of the mental wellbeing of the individuals.
Question 7: Think about whether there could be any exceptions to the ethical principle of
informed consent in relation to certain studies. For example, do you think there could be
some circumstances involving adolescents that would justify allowing them to participate in a
study without parental consent? What types of studies could be affected by this issue? Do you

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think that limiting studies to adolescents who have obtained permission for their involvement
could lead to bias in the findings?
Answer: The adolescents whether they should participate in any study without the parental
consent depends upon the nature of the study that is to be conducted. If the study is for any
academic purpose, then of course their participation can be ensured without any prior consent
from their parents. However if the study is conducted for a hard core clinical or a
psychological cause, then the adolescents should consider the permission of their parents or
any elderly guardian’s consent in this regard. I don’t agree with the fact that by obtaining
someone’s consent, there can rise any biasness in the answers. The permission will just act as
a consent and will not hamper the responses in general.

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