Student Performance Task
Course:
Honors Psychology
Task: Developmental Scrapbook
Unit: 5, Development and Sexuality
Time Frame: 1-2 weeks (out of class)
Overarching Understanding: students will understand that human behavior is
impacted by individual and group behavior
Enduring Understanding:
Students will understand that infancy and early childhood are critical times for
physical, emotional, and cognitive development.
Essential Question: How do human beings develop physically, cognitively, and
emotionally according to today’s psychological research on human development?
Vignette: Students will create a scrapbook that highlights multiple areas (ex:
physical, cognitive) of their personal development. Students will connect their
childhood and teenage years with psychological theories and key concepts.
Standard: See attached rubric
Performance Task Blueprint
Course: Honors Psychology
Unit: 5, Development and Sexuality
Topic Area: Human Development
Time Frame: 1-2 weeks (out of class)
Goal
Students will create a scrapbook that highlights multiple areas (ex: physical,
cognitive) of their personal development. Students will connect their
childhood and teenage years with psychological theories and key concepts.
Role
Students can act as developmental psychologists who are attempting to
understand their own personal development
Audience
Classmates/teacher
Situation
Students will create a timeline of their developmental stages from their birth
to present day
Product or
Performance
A completed scrapbook that includes 5 developmental sections (general info.,
language, cognition, physical, socio-emotional) and pictures from their
childhood through teenage years
Standards
See attached rubric
My Developmental Scrapbook
You will design and create a personal scrapbook that discusses many aspects of your physical,
cognitive, and social-emotional development. Follow the guidelines below to create your
developmental book. You may use your mom, dad, or other family members as references to
connect your past to the developmental concepts we will or have discussed this unit. You will
also use your textbook to answer some of the questions (in bold). This is a creative assignment;
your baby book should not only contain personal and factual information, but it should also be
decorative and unique to your personality. DUE: _________________________________
Section 1: General Information - Provide a brief introduction to your baby book.
1. When and where were you born?
2. How would you describe your childhood and upbringing? If you can, ask your parents/family
to reflect on you as a child.
3. What major obstacles (good or bad) have you faced in your life that you feel have greatly
impacted your personal development, if any?
4. What characteristics of your personal development would you say is the result of nature
(heredity) and which are the results of nurture (environment) (use p. 84-87 as a reference)?
5. What are your general views of getting older (age wise) and maturing into a young adult
(graduation, college, work, career, family)? Don’t worry, it’s not that bad!
*include at least 2 pictures
Section 2: Your Physical Development
1. What was your birth weight and length?
2. What month do babies typically begin to crawl (p. 92)? Begin to walk?
3. If you can find out: when did you begin to walk? When did you begin to ride a bike? Play sports?
4. Did you face any physical development problems/dilemmas growing up? If so, do they affect you
today?
5. What is the difference between “adolescence” and “puberty” (p. 137)?
6. How do boy’s and girls differ in maturation and in attitudes towards early/late development
(p. 138)?
7. According to your textbook, what are several “successful aging” techniques (p. 150)?
*include at least 2 pictures
Section 3: Your Language Development
1. If you can find out: What was your first word spoken? When did you first begin to talk?
2. Were there any funny sounds, words, and/or phrases you used to use?
3. Did you experience any language barriers during language formation (i.e. stuttering, lisps, learning
multiple languages at once)? Do they still effect you today?
4. How do parents communicate with infants before they can talk (p. 105)?
5. Define “motherese” (p. 105). Provide an example of a time you displayed this type of language.
6. In your opinion, what are different ways an individual can increase their vocabulary? Do you find it
challenging or easy to verbally express yourself to others? Explain.
*include at least 2 pictures
Section 4: Your Social-Emotional Development
1. Define “social development” (p. 95)
2. Who was your “primary caregiver?” Who were you most emotionally attached to as a baby? How do you
think this impacted your upbringing?
3. Were there any objects that you formed attachments with? Do you still have an attachment to this?
4. Did you have any trust issues as a child? Were you an independent or dependent child?
5. Define “temperament” (p. 87). Would you say that you were an “easy child”, “difficult child”, or
“slow-to-warm-up child?” Do you feel that this temperament has stuck with you today?
6. According to theorist Erik Erikson, adolescence is a turbulent time and teenagers often ask themselves,
“Who am I?” (p. 128). What do you think this means? Are you personally grappling with the concepts of
“identity” and “self?”
7. According to your textbook, what are some means to well-being and happiness (p. 156)?
*include at least 2 pictures
Section 5: Your Cognitive Development
1. What is the earliest memory you have of your childhood?
2. Did you have an imaginative friend growing up? If so, what was his/her name? Did you play together?
3. Did you have any learning disabilities/giftedness growing up? Do they still affect your learning today?
4. Explain Piaget’s theory of cognitive development (p. 107)
5. According to Piaget, you are currently in the Formal Operations Stage of Cognitive Development.
Discuss at least 3 aspects of your cognition that would represent this stage.
6. Define “moral development” (p. 141). What are your morals? Who or what has had the greatest impact
on what you consider moral?
7. Do you agree or disagree with Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences? Which “intelligence” of his do
you most identify with? Least?
8. Vocationally (career) wise, where do you see yourself in 10 years?
*include at least 2 pictures
Grading Rubric
Section 1: General Information
Personal Information _____ / 8 pts
Pictures (minimum of 2) _____ / 2 pts
Creativity/organization _____ / 2 pts
Section 2: Your Physical Development
Key Facts/ Concepts (in bold) _____ / 8 pts
Personal Information _____ / 8 pts
Pictures (minimum of 2) _____ / 2 pts
Creativity/organization _____ / 2 pts
Section 3: Your Language Development
Key Facts/ Concepts (in bold) _____ / 8 pts
Personal Information _____ / 8 pts
Pictures (minimum of 2) _____ / 2 pts
Creativity/organization _____ / 2 pts
Section 4: Your Social-Emotional Development
Key Facts/ Concepts (in bold) _____ / 8 pts
Personal Information _____ / 8 pts
Pictures (minimum of 2) _____ / 2 pts
Creativity/organization _____ / 2 pts
Section 5: Your Cognitive Development
Key Facts/ Concepts (in bold) _____ / 8 pts
Personal Information _____ / 8 pts
Pictures (minimum of 2) _____ / 2 pts
Creativity/organization _____ / 2 pts
Developmental Scrapbook Project: Overall effort and quality of work ______ / 8 pts
TOTAL _______ / 100 pts