PSYCH 10

JOURNAL #1

Understanding your cohort group

For this assignment, you need to describe your cohort group. In doing so, please address normative history graded influences, normative age-graded influences, normative sociocultural influences and nonnormative life events. To complete this assignment, examine the following issues and questions:

1. What year were you born?

2. Do you know of any important historical events that occurred around the

time of your birth?

3. What important events do you remember as having affected you and your

peers during your school years (for example, assassinations, space

exploration, political upheavals, wars, natural disasters)? Describe how

these events have influenced your development, and made your development different from other groups.

4. When you were in the fifth grade, what attitude did most people have toward:

a. mother's who worked outside of the home

b. father's role in child-rearing.

c. people of other ethnic groups.

d. senior citizens.

e. couples without children.

f. only children.

g. handicapped children.

h. birth control.

g. sex

5. Discuss your development and cohort group in terms of the influences stated above (history, age, sociocultural and life events).

6. Discuss how your development and cohort group are different from your

parents and from your children or younger siblings.

7. Reflect on what you have learned while doing this assignment.