Lifespan Interview- Late Adulthood Interview PDF

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LIFESPAN INTERVIEW: LATE ADULTHOOD PSYC 2314 SPRING 2019 Concept: To explore and better understand the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes and development during late adulthood on a realistic level. Interview someone in late adulthood (age sixty and older), this may be a family member, friend, neighbor, teacher, etc. Instructions: The student will interview an individual in late adulthood using the questions below, then the student will relate the information they gained from the interview to theories and concepts in class, lastly they will reflect on their experience. Interview Questions For this interview, use the following required questions: 1. What are some of your favorite memories from early childhood, before you started going to school? - Living in France because her father was a captain in the US army, her mother, a registered nurse went to the commanding officer and told him that they needed an American school because all of the French schools spoke French. He told her if she could find 10 kids in the surrounding area that he would start the school because this was in the 1950s and my grandmother made the 10th kid to enroll in the school. - Lived on a rabbit farm because her dad was an engineer, moved to various places. - Lived on another farm with bullets holes still in the front of the house from world war 2. - Would jump off the hayloft, second story of the barn, onto the hay at the bottom. - Got to France when she was 4 and left when she was 7 2. What are some of your memories as you grew up and attended school? - She attended 12 different schools, her school busses were jeeps, like in the movie M.A.S.H., like little bitty ambulances because they lived off the community. - After France she went to fort interwound Missouri. - She was sent to a singer sewing class where she learned to sew, and her dad bought her her first singer sewing machine. This came in handy when her parents were low on money because she would make a lot of her own cloths. - She went to Taiwan, she got off a school bus and Chinese jeep truck her and threw her up in the air against a tree when she was 9 years old, which broke her leg in two. She lived in Tainan, Taiwan and they were 200 miles away from the nearest hospital in Taipei. They had to fly her to the hospital where she was there for a month in bucks’ traction, which is the elevation of the leg

LIFESPAN INTERVIEW: LATE ADULTHOOD PSYC 2314 SPRING 2019 using pins to pull your bones in alignment. They put her in a Spica cast from the abdomen all the way to the bottom of her right foot, and the knee on her left leg with a bar in between so they could pick her up. She was in this for 8 months; she couldn’t even sit up. - Her dad constructed her a flat wheelchair. Like a dolly for a person - moved to corpus her junior year from Germany. She was in Germany from 9th grade to her junior year. - Graduated at 17 and got married - Met her husband at a picks drive in at 16 - Had their first date a frenchies 3. What do you remember from your young adult years? - She had already been married - She had her 3 kids - went to nursing school and went to work - She didn’t get to have wild young days 4. What are your best memories from your middle adult years? - She finally experienced her wild days when she was 40 years old and divorved her husband. - She went dancing at a gay bar - got a tattoo of a 4 leaf clover on her hip - Went on a ton of girls trips - She graduated nursing school as an outstanding nursing student - got her bachelors at del mar - then got her masters 4. What were some difficulties during your middle adult years? - divorce, - at the end of her middle adult years she remarried, and took on a 15 year old - she had to move her parents in with her and take care of them. - her brother died from alcoholism 5. If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be? - Divorce sooner than she did, she was married for 26 years and wished she got divorced 15 years sooner.

6. What are the best and most difficult aspects of growing older? ← - free to do whatever you want

LIFESPAN INTERVIEW: LATE ADULTHOOD PSYC 2314 SPRING 2019 ← - maintain health ← - losing friends and family ← ← 7. What helps you cope with growing older? - being around family - she still works - still has expectations for herself 9. What suggestions do you have for someone in their teens or 20s about growing older? - get education first so your settled in life. - Don’t stay in a relationship that’s not good for you.

Regarding the Paper Do not simply turn in a page of questions and answers. Your submission should be a report documenting your interview—addressing each question and their corresponding answer. Within this report you will also be expected to relate at least two of your interviewee’s answers to a theory or concept discussed in chapter 15 or 16 of our text. Lastly, you will be required to include a reflection on these two questions, “What did you learn personally from this interview? What are the most compelling lessons you take away from this experience?” Logistics: All papers are due on BlackBoard on Friday, April 19th, at 11:30 p.m. The formatting will be 1-inch margins, double spaced, 12-point font size, Times New Roman font, and be 3-5 pages.

LIFESPAN INTERVIEW: LATE ADULTHOOD PSYC 2314 SPRING 2019 Lifespan Interview: Late Adulthood Grading Rubric Very Poor – 0 pt.

Poor – 5 pts.

Fair – 10 pts.

Good – 15 pts.

Excellent – 20 pts

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The student used just one relevant theory/concepts from the assigned text chapters.

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The student used at least two relevant theories/concepts from the assigned text chapters.

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At times, reader has difficulty following paper due to illogical sequencing

Information presented in logical sequence which reader can follow

Information presented in logical, interesting sequence which maintains readers attention throughout 3-5 pages total

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Interview Questions & Course Material

The interview questions were not asked or included in the paper. Information is inaccurate or not related to course material

The interview questions were hinted at, but not included in the paper.

The interview questions were answered and discussed. Information is aligned with topic areas but fails to expand upon class material

The interview questions were answered and briefly interpreted.

The interview questions were answered and included in the paper and addressed in detail. Paper expands upon information presented within class/text

/20

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Writing Quality

Paper has obvious and repeated spelling, grammatical, or pronunciation errors There is no conclusion

Paper has numerous spelling, grammatical, or pronunciation errors

Paper has three to five spelling, grammatical, or pronunciation errors Conclusion is abrupt and lacks cohesion

Paper has no more than two spelling, grammatical, or pronunciation errors

5.

Reflection

Reflection answers show little or no critical thought or serious reflection.

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Organization & Length of Paper

The student did not use any relevant theories/concepts from the assigned text chapters. Paper lacks logical sequence of information Less than 3-5 pages or over 5 pages

Reflection answers show some critical thought &/or serious reflection.

TOTAL SCORE

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Paper has no obvious spelling, grammatical, or pronunciation errors There is an obvious conclusion summarizing the paper Reflection answers show critical thought and serious reflection on the student’s experience.

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