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Week Eight Blog Post by Miles O'Brien

Blog Post Eight: Bringing it Together For this last blog post, we really put it all together. Throughout the course, we studied the developmental process for the human body as we progressively age. This last chapter we examined how to put the theories into practice by constructing meaning out of the facts that were presented in the text. “The concepts of informal inquiry and the more formal action research are two ways people may choose to explore and apply lifespan theories” (Fiore, 2011). These concepts forced me to further analyze the findings of the text. Over the last century, lifespan development has experienced a lot of growth and change. This can be notably seen with the rise of social media and the world wide web. All content put onto the web can be seen by the public and all information across multiple sources can be shared instantaneously. Therefore, increasing human’s ability to interact with each other. From my point of view, this can be a startling idea because any per...
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Week Seven Blog Post by Miles O'Brien

Week Seven Blog Post In chapter 12 we studied death and the spiritual role it plays in our lives. There are four types of death recognizable in todays medical field. Clinical death, physically speaking, is when an individual breathing has stopped, or their heartbeat has stopped. Brain death is the failure of the brain to receive a stuffiest amount of oxygen for a time of 8 to 10 minutes. This is considered to be a irreversible coma. In the chapter we also examine biological death which occurs when there is no observable electric pulse going to the heart and lungs. This causes all bodily functions to cease working. Page 282 discusses how researcher, David Sudnow was the first person to conceptualize the idea of social death, which suggests a person is physically still alive but is seen as dead to society. This brings up the legality of what death actually is. In 1968, the Harvard Ad Hoc Committee to Examine the Criteria of Brian Death stated, “unreceptivity and unresponsive, no mo...
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Week Six Blog Post by Miles O'Brien

Week 6 Blog Post Chapters 9 and 10 dove into early and middle adulthood. The chapter describes how transitioning into adulthood in the United States is becoming more and more complicated. This is because of the demand for skills and education is increasing. Table 9.2 explains how early adulthood the point in life is at which we see a slowdown of the physical changes that occur in the body. We also study how the organs are used in the body. Organ reserve as described on page 210 is the total capacity our organs are able to sustain. Our organs are meant to be able to do a lot more than they are asked on a daily basis but as we age that capacity slowly lessens. This is also connected to our physical health and the choices that we make. The effects of lifestyle on health is very important to maintain that standard of nutrition. Healthy eating habits are very important to develop during this stage in your life that one will be able to carry out through the rest of their life. It is also...
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Week Five Blog Post by Miles O'Brien

Week 5 Blog Post by Miles O'Brien Chapter 8 outlined the beginning parts of adolescence and how the human develops through this period in their life. A huge part of the adolescence stage in our lives involves puberty. Puberty is a process of physical changes that take place in the body that evolves us humans to adults. As the human develops through adolescence, they develop hormonal changes that make them question their personality and who they are. Influences from peers and successful people they see on television can greatly determine how the adolescent grows up. They can often see false representations of how the human should be which can lead to disorders or behaviors that are not healthy. Body image as described on page 190 explains that adolescence can often become obsessed with their appearance and develop disorders, such as anorexia, to try and justify their appearance. It is in this cognitive developmental period that Piaget called the Formal Operational Stage. Cogniti...
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Week Four Blog Post by Miles O'Brien

  Week Four Blog Post by Miles O'Brien Chapter 6 dove deep into understanding the physical and motor development of early childhood. Reading through the chapter, the reader was able to compare how the physical and mental developments related on an intrapersonal level. Understand the prefrontal cortex is critical when studying the young child. This part of the brain helps them organize their attention and actions as shown in figure 6.2 on page 131. Along with attention and actions, the young child also begins to develop different motor skills both fine and gross as show in Table 6.1. Gross skills include running and climbing and fine motor skills include throwing balls at around the age of 2. This leads us to theories from Piaget. He introduced the preoperational period, in which he theorized that this was an age in which kids couldn’t take two things into consideration at the same time. There are also other influences that should be considered when understanding the physic...
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Week Three Blog Post By Miles O'Brien

Week Three Blog Post By Miles O'Brien In chapter three: Pregnancy and Prenatal Development we started discovering about the beginning journey of life. I dove deep into understanding pregnancy and the prenatal process. This chapter followed the process from conception, all the way to birth and it covered every detail. I particularly found the different prenatal periods to be very interesting. I also enjoyed how the chapter brought in biological processes to help the reader further understand. On page 66, the embryotic period described how it was a time of rapid development and great sensitivity. I related this to the” Through the Ages” handout by understanding statistics on different defects the fetus can develop such as FAS or cerebral palsy. Chapter 4 discussed the birthing process and different sequences that can be followed. This also lead to understand different complications that can develop during the birthing process. Page 87 talked about anoxia, which can occur when t...
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Week Two Blog Post By Miles O'Brien

Week Two Blog Post By Miles O'Brien The reading for Chapter Two: Theories of Development outlined different positions on how lifespan development is interpreted. The psychoanalytic theory as described on page 29, is the foundation for which modern psychology is based. Figure 2.1 lays out the Freudian Stages of Development. This chart explains different pleasures that humans develop based on wants and needs. He argues that “The location of the pleasure center changes with development, and unless this pleasure center is satisfied, a person cannot resolve the inner conflict” (pg 30). Freuds theories also describe structural developments in the mind that are fueled by libido. The Id, Ego , and Superego . The Id is the basic instinct that we are all born with that has the soul purpose to secure pleasure. On the opposite side of the spectrum is the Superego that determine things from right and wrong. To balance both sides is the Ego. When I reflect on this, I image the scenario ...
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