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PSY 121: Developmental Psychology Learning Unit 4: Journal
Journal: YOUR Temperament!
SLO: Analyze biological, cognitive, and socioemotional developmental processes for infancy, apply
developmental psychological content to real-life situations to include individual differences, beliefs,
values, and interpersonal relationships, and develop critical thinking skills.
Journals consist of free writing that demonstrates your ability to critically think about the presented
content. A prompt is provided for you to respond to for this activity. As you consider a response, make
sure to incorporate content from the unit in your response. There is no assigned page or word amount;
however, critically thinking about the prompt and being able to share your thoughts in a logical,
organized manner is the criteria for grading. The Critical Thinking rubric will be used to grade this
assignment.
Analyze your own temperament.
1. Indicate whether your temperament is better explained by the Chess and Thomas, Kagan
or Rothbart and Bates approach.
2. Indicate how stable your temperament has been over the course of your development. Explain.
3. What factors have contributed to this stability or lack of stability? Explain.
Submit to the appropriate area in the unit.
Submit by clicking on the Journal assignment heading (maroon in color), click “Create Journal Entry”,
provide a title, copy and paste your response into the Entry Message area or type your response directly
in to this area. Make sure to use spell check and double check for correct grammar and conventions.to
the appropriate location in the unit.
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