What are some factors you think can affect what the subjects comprehend or not and how they may differ?

Answer: One main factor that may affect a child's comprehension at a certain age can be how they were raised. That within itself has many factors to be considered because children are raised and taught differently depending on multiple things such as culture, class, and even location of where you live.

Before reading further about their work, what do you think the outcome of their research may have been?

Answer: This answer can most definitely vary, but will most likely be influenced by how your own language ability was while growing and how you progressed as a child depending on your family's income.

How do you think differences like these between countries affect the way people from different parts of the world interact and are able to connect to one another?

Answer: This answer can vary depending on how one believes people should interact and connect with one another. But it important to keep in mind when thinking of ways, that we all went through developmental stages at different points in our life that may be somewhat similar and sometimes completely different. This is something that can be seen as a good thing because we can learn from others and with doing so grow more ourselves.

Although this approach allows for better understanding of individuals, how can and does bias become a problem in case studies such as this one?

Answer: Information provided by the individuals can be understood differently from each and every psychologists. There are too many factors and unique circumstances to consider when trying to group and certain type of person or behavior together.

Example: Another way of looking at this is thinking of how we as young adults in college develop at slightly different rates as well. We are all in a common stage in our life and we now reaching more milestones, more complex and challenging than specific normative events we develop as children. These milestones are events that shape us and help us develop in all aspects of our life.

Example: Now think of WSU coming up with solutions to problems such as these on our campus. We are a large school with a diverse group of individuals with many stories to be shared and heard. We must learn to be kind to one another and strengthen "Cougs help Cougs" in a way that can lead to bettering one's University experience, for instance coming up with ways to help low-income students through their journey here.

Among these approaches there are those in which life narratives are recorded over an extended period of time and then analyzed (Köber, Schmiedek & Habermas, 2015). These methods of lifespan development can track certain aspects of growth more common studies wouldn't usually be able to. With life narratives you get the whole story, what is going on in someone's mind throughout a course of 8 years (Köber, Schmiedek & Habermas, 2015) can really teach us something about lifespan development. There are things that can be discovered through studies like these that may not have been previously. Due to collecting the in depth accounts of experiences throughout one's life, we can learn and observe the development of the way we act, think, and maybe even view the world, all depending on occurrences in our lives.

If we even wanted to take these views of development a step further, outside the subject of Psychology, into Biology we can see and learn about different studies such as those looking into increasing one's lifespan. (Atzmon, Pollin, Crandall, Tanner, Schechter, Scherer, & Barzilai (2008).) These ideas can all be related because there are many things we know of and continue to learn about that can increase our lifespan, including our psychological development and how it can aid us in prolonging our lives.

One among many of these case studies, was (Riediger, Voelkle, Schaefer, Lindenberger (2014) conducted with a range of people from the age of nine years to seventy-six years old in which their cognitive and social functioning are being studied. With doing so they concluded that the concept of cognitive and social functioning transpire in late middle childhood and then develops with age. Through research methods as such we can learn and understand different developmental process we go through at different stages and how they might change over time.