Your book explains that developmental psychologists study how people change physically, mentally, and socially over the lifespan and that some of the factors that have influenced a person's development include: biological, environmental, social, cultural, and behavioral factors. In addition, the book states that many of these factors depend on a person's attitudes, perceptions, and personality.

For paper #1, first, describe how you have changed physically, mentally, and socially over the past five years of your life (including changes in your attitudes and personality). Second, explain how some of the factors (mentioned above) influenced your development. Third, discuss how you might develop in the next five years of your life. What types of biological, mental, and social changes (attitudes and personality included) do you expect to happen in the next five years and how might the factors influence these changes?

Paper #2 has two parts. The first part (part 1) is explained below, is due Sept. 14th, and is worth 10 points of the 30 possible points for Paper #2. The second part (part 2) will be assigned later in the semester.

1. Create a mini journal for your use by stapling 8-10 pages of notebook paper together. The first page will be your index page. The remaining pages will be your journal entry pages.

2. For the next five days (Sat-Wed or Sun-Thurs), choose one event per day to write about in your journal. The event can be anything that you choose and as mundane or exciting as you want. Write at least one paragraph describing the event and giving as much detailed information as possible about the event.

3. Once you have written your journal entry, name it in five words or less. Write the name of your journal entry at the top of your entry. In addition, write the title of the entry on your index page (the front page of your journal).

4. On your index page, rate each of the events according to the following two scales.

a. How meaningful was the event to you?

b. How emotionally important was the event to you?

5. If possible, try not to think about these events after you have written about them, but hold on to your journal because you’ll need it later this semester for part 2 of your assignment. (Maybe put the journal in the very back of your notebook, so you won’t see it but know where to get to it when you need it.

6. Next Friday (Sept 14th) bring your journals with you to lab. Deborah and Marisa will NOT be reading your journals. During class, they will be checking to see that you have completed part 1 of the Paper #2 assignment. You will receive an easy 10 points if you have completed the five journal entries and the index page.

7. You will receive Paper #2 part 2 later in the semester.

Paper #2 has two parts. You completed the first part (part 1) back in September when you were asked to keep a daily journal of events. Here is the second part (part 2).

1) Find your journals and take out the index page only (where you listed the names of your journal entries). Choose the titles from September 10th and September 11th. Using the cues from the titles, write everything you can remember about the original events from Sept. 10th and 11th.

2) Give each a rating of how well you think you remember each episode (before looking at the actual event).

How well do you think that you remember each episode? 0 = not at all 1 = very little 2 = somewhat 3 = a good bit 4 = a great bit 5 = perfectly

3) Only after you have written about the two events, compare the original event with what you remembered. For each of these events, give a rating for how well you really did remember the original event, and how much memory distortion you had for the original event. In addition, rate how much you have thought about this event since its original occurrence.

a. How well did you really remember the original event? 0 = absolutely no memory 1 = little memory 2 = some memory 3 = good deal of memory 4 = great deal of memory 5 = perfect memory of the original event

b. How much distortion did you have for the original event? 0 = absolutely no memory distortion 1 = little memory distortion 2 = some memory distortion 3 = good deal of memory distortion 4 = great deal of memory distortion 5 = tremendous memory distortion of the event.

c. How much have you thought about the event since its occurrence? 0 = not at all 1 = very little 2 = some 3 = a good deal 4 = a great deal 5 = it has totally preoccupied my thinking

4) Write a 4-5 page paper explaining why you did or did not remember the two events equally well. Remember to include concepts from your memory chapter. For example,
a. were your retrieval cues better for one event than the other?
b. How did the encoding of the two events differ?
c. How did the memory distortions differ and why?
d. Why do you think you forgot some of the details of the events and not other details?
e. How could you have improved your memory for the events?

5) Final instructions:
a. Copy your ratings from Part 1 and Part 2 onto the answer sheet at the end of this packet.
b. Turn in your 4-5 page write up with your ratings answer sheet.

Note: This is the only option for those of you who did not do part 1 of this assignment. 1) choose an event from September 10th and an event from September 11th. Then, follow the same instructions as above. However, you will need to reword the first and second rating questions (in instruction 3) by using the word "think" in the question. How well do you think you really remember the original event? How much distortion do you think you have for the original event? If you complete this part (Part 2) of the assignment, you still have the chance of receiving the 20 points.

Discussion of why you did or did not remember (3 pts), Retrieval cues (2 pts), Encoding differences (2 pts), Memory distortion difference (2 pts), Forgetting (2 pts), Improving memory (2 pts)

Answer sheet (3 pts)

Misc (grammer, length, spelling, etc) 4 pts

Total (20 pts)

Event 1 (Sept 10th)	Event 2 (Sept 11th)
1. How meaningful was the event to you?	How meaningful was the event to you?
0 = absolutely no meaning	0 = absolutely no meaning
1 = little meaning	1 = little meaning
2 = some meaning	2 = some meaning
3 = a good deal of meaning	3 = a good deal of meaning
4 = a great deal of meaning	4 = a great deal of meaning
5 = tremendous meaning	5 = tremendous meaning
2. How emotionally important was the event to you?	How emotionally important was the event to you?
0 = absolutely no emotional importance	0 = absolutely no emotional importance
1 = little emotional importance	1 = little emotional importance
2 = some emotional importance	2 = some emotional importance
3 = good deal of emotional importance	3 = good deal of emotional importance
4 = great deal of emotional importance	4 = great deal of emotional importance
5 = tremendous emotional importance	5 = tremendous emotional importance
3. How well do you think you remember each episode?	How well do you think you remember each episode?
0 = not at all	0 = not at all
1 = very little	1 = very little
2 = somewhat	2 = somewhat
3 = a good bit	3 = a good bit
4 = a great bit	4 = a great bit
5 = perfectly	5 = perfectly
4. How well did you really remember the original event?	How well did you really remember the original event?
0 = absolutely no memory	0 = absolutely no memory
1 = little memory	1 = little memory
2 = some memory	2 = some memory
3 = good deal of memory	3 = good deal of memory
4 = great deal of memory	4 = great deal of memory
5 = perfect memory	5 = perfect memory
5. How much distortion did you have for the original event?	How much distortion did you have for the original event?
0 = absolutely no memory distortion	0 = absolutely no memory distortion
1 = little memory distortion	1 = little memory distortion
2 = some memory distortion	2 = some memory distortion
3 = good deal of memory distortion	3 = good deal of memory distortion
4 = great deal of memory distortion	4 = great deal of memory distortion
5 = tremendous memory distortion	5 = tremendous memory distortion
6. How much have you thought about the event since its occurrence?	How much have you thought about the event since its occurrence?
0 = not at all	0 = not at all
1 = very little	1 = very little
2 = some	2 = some
3 = a good deal	3 = a good deal
4 = a great deal	4 = a great deal
5 = it has totally preoccupied my thinking	5 = it has totally preoccupied my thinking