Developmental psychology’s job is to explain the
changes that happen in a person’s life from start to finish. Studying these
changes is very important when it comes to understanding how and why these
changes occur and what could be the factors for the anomalies. This knowledge creates
opportunities that allow psychologists to decide what the most advantageous ways to
raise our future generations are. There are always going to be new things to
learn about developmental psychology because the transformations in people have a
lot to do with their surrounding environment. And because environments are
temporary and society is ever-changing, psychology is as well.
Living in a small town has both its advantages and disadvantages. I knew the majority of my graduating class since I was born.
I hadn’t seen them change as much in the first fourteen years of their lives as
they did in the last five years. And I know that people say that a lot of what
happens to you in your first few years of life has a lot of weight in who you become.
But I am curious as to how experiences and society can affect adolescents. Why
things such as social media and school, or more intense experiences such as divorce
or death, affect teenagers so differently. And how these changes merge with ideals they used to have as they become adults.
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