- Choose one of the movies from the list on page three. Select a character from the movie to use for your analysis.
- Choose a theoretical perspective for analyzing the character. The perspectives include but are not limited to:
• Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development (0-18 yrs) (pp. 9, 10)
• Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development (pp. 6, 7)
• Lev Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development (0-18 yrs) (p. 13)
• Sigmund Freud’s stages of psychosexual development (0-18 yrs) (pp. 4-6)
• Ivan Pavlov’s classical conditioning (p. 7)
• B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning (pp. 7, 8)
• Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory (p. 9)
• Information processing theory (pp. 10, 11)
• Urie Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory (pp. 12, 13)
• Robert Havinghurst’s developmental tasks (p. 246)
• Daniel Levinson’s seasons of life (pp. 248, 249, 280)
• Robert Sternberg’s triangular theory of love (pp. 251, 252)
• Life-events approach (e.g. empty nest syndrome, death, divorce, separation, hospitalization, financial difficulties, employment challenges, etc.) (pp. 282, 283)
• Robert Peck’s developmental tasks (p. 310)
• Activity theory (p. 311, 312)
• Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ stages of dying (p. 325)
• Socio-emotional selectivity theory (p. 313) and selective optimization and compensation (p. 321, 322)
- Create an infographic based on the lifespan and analysis of one movie character. Infographic may use canva.com, venngage.com, visme.co, piktochart.com, easel.ly, Infogram, Vizualize.me, Snappa, BeFunky, Mind the Graph or another infographic application or template.
Sample Solution