Developmental Psychology End of Course Assessment (ECA)

39631Plagiarism and Collusion:
Avoid plagiarism by giving yourself sufficient time to research and understand the material so that you can write up your assignment in your own words and ensure that you provide appropriate references when necessary. If AI is used, ensure that the AI tool is properly cited, and ensure that you write your response entirely using your own words. Even when paraphrased slightly, AI-generated text can still be flagged as plagiarism. You can avoid collusion by ensuring that your submission is based on your own individual effort.

ECA Submission Guidelines:
Answer Parts 1 and 2 of this ECA (Total 100 marks)
This End of Course Assessment (ECA) is 100% of the Overall Examinable Component (OES). There are two parts to this ECA:
• Part 1: Infographic
• Part 2: Essay
Please submit the Part 1 & 2 as ONE Microsoft Word File Only

Part 1: Infographic:
For this part of the ECA, you will curate a resource centre in the form of a one-page infographic.

You are a teacher at an autism centre for children aged 4 to 12 years old and your centre will be hosting a workshop for parents, which will discuss Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of development. You have been asked to develop an infographic to be given to parents during the workshop.

In your infographic, examine how parents can use and apply each of the four nested systems in Bronfenbrenner’s model to care for their child with mild to moderate autism.

Your content should be pitched at an appropriate level for your target audience (avoid the use of technical jargon), and should be easy for them to understand. Your infographic should also be aesthetically pleasing. You may refer to this link for a sample: https://static.straitstimes.com.sg/s3fs-public/retiring_infographic_retirees.jpg.

For the infographic, you may use your preferred tool, e.g., PowerPoint, Paint, Illustrator, Photoshop, Canva, etc. If you use images in your infographic, please provide links to the images and make sure that they have a Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/) that allows reuse by others for non-commercial purposes as long as there is proper credit given.

Your infographic must fit into a single page, saved as a JPEG/PNG image file. The key here is to convey necessary information in an appealing, concise, and fun way.

Important: Insert this image in the same document as the essay in Part 2 below.
Your work will be assessed on the following components:
• Content (reliable sources, relevant, comprehensive)
• Cohesiveness (logical, well-organised)
• Creativity (aesthetically pleasing design and layout)
30 Marks

Part 2: Essay
(Word limit: 1,000 words)
I swear sixteen was yesterday
But now I’m closer to twenty-eight
I’m focusing all of my energy on staying awake
Oh, I don’t mean to keep
Making it about me
Everybody feels like this at twenty-three
I know I’m not unique
But I’m a drama queen
I don’t why I’m surprised
It’s just a quarter life crisis
verse from Taylor Beckett’s ‘Quarter Life Crisis’

Using Erikson’s stages of development, illustrate and explain the ‘quarter life crisis’ for someone in their 20s, with regards to romantic relationships and social (non-romantic) relationships at the workplace (e.g., with colleagues, boss). Support your answer with a minimum of five academic sources.

Additionally, provide some advice for someone in their 20s on how they can better manage these two types of relationships based on theoretical and/or empirical support.
(60 marks)

References (5 marks)
The References lists the full reference of all sources cited or referred to in your assignment.

In-text citations also need to be presented accurately in APA format.
5 marks: In-text citations and the reference list are presented in APA format with no errors. None of the sources cited in-text are missing from the reference list and vice-versa. A minimum of 5 academic sources are cited.

English competency (5 marks)
5 marks: Extremely well-written with minimal grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors.