Question

chapter 8: Human Development

Assignment: Developmental Psychology

Instructions:

1. Select an adult to study (someone who is a prominent person, singer/actor, politician, athlete, or someone in the news), I prefer president Donald Trump

2. Prepare a 700-1000 word paper in which assess the following issues:

   1. What family issues or support systems may have influenced this person's learning style and behaviors?
      
   2. Select two theories of learning and apply them to the person you selected to study
      
      1. How does each theory explain their behavior, ideas, and achievements?
         
      2. Why?
         
      3. Include in paragraph citations and references

Answer 1

Theories of learning: One of the major theory of learning is Conditioning, where the behaviour psychologists has explained how learning can be conditioned. Secondly, Cognitive theory of Learning where psychologist like Lewin, Kohler etc. explained how our cognitive brain learns.

Lets take example of American President Donald Trump and draw ideas on the basis of above mentioned learning theories. Explaining the behaviour of an individual selected Behaviour, ideas and achievement.

According to theory of conditioned learning there are basically two types of learning, i.e, Operant and Classical.

Operant Conditioning in case of Donald Trump can be classified on the basis of his empire. The empire he has today was work of his founding fathers and a lot of hardship faced by him and his founding fathers. That is why today he is very particular and strict to do what is needed to sustain his empire.

Classical Conditioning can be observed in his ideas and achievements where he only did what is needed to be done, where he responded to stimuli.

In term of cognitive psychlology aspect after experiencing a lot of hardship and sucess he find the meaning in what is right for him and what is not. His insight and cognition made him what he is today. President!