Developmental Scrapbook Instructions -- Chamberlain 2009-10 Psych
Objective: To apply the knowledge you have acquired about psychological theory to your own
social, cognitive, and personality development.
Required Format: 6-chapter scrapbook (divided according to developmental age stages) of
written reflections, analysis, and pictures/graphics
Required Contents:
Chapter 1: Conception – Birth
Chapter 2: Infancy Chapter 3: Early Childhood
Chapter 4: Childhood
Chapter 5: Adolescence
Chapter 6: Conclusions & Application of Theories Charts (see list below a-f)
a. Personality Assessment Results Chart
(What color is your personality? Jung’s
Typology, Right brain/Left brain,
Adler’s Birth Order theory, Multiple
Intelligence)
c. Freud’s developmental stages chart
d. Kohlberg moral development chart
e. Piaget cognitive development chart
f. Erikson ComicLife
b. Attachment, Social learning, & Gender
theories chart
Chapters 1-5 Requirements (you will do 5 total Maslow’s pyramid analysis—1/chapter!!)
Written: Choose any of the following formats (be as creative as you wish!) to reflect upon your
SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, PERSONALITY, & COGNITIVE (mental/academic) growth as a
person through the age stages of your life. Use the Questionnaire to help generate ideas for
your written reflections!
a. Diary entry (narrative) summary of your life at this stage
b. Thought bubbles
c. Charts/tables
Visuals:
a. Graphics and/or pictures of yourself, family, friends at this stage; momentos, “keepsakes” (If
you have no pictures or keepsakes, you must add color, clipart, or something drawings
so your page is not just writing!)
b. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs pyramid and analysis (1 in each chapter so 5 total!)
Chapter 6 instructions: Conclusions and Application of Theories You will use special charts
to do this chapter. These charts are available on Blackboard in the Assignments folder AND in
the wiki under the title “2009 Scrapbook Inserts”. You may type or handwrite in your chart! You
will apply each theory to yourself and draw conclusions about your own life experience.
You should refer back to elements from your earlier chapters within your analysis.