Title:Baby Boomers Embrace Activity Theory of Aging Author: Jody Smith Date Published:2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This gives a good description and detail about activity model and explains what types of activities are healthy and can improve quality of life. How This Influenced My Thinking: It gave me a detailed definition of activity model and provided with great information regarding this theory Credibility of Source: medium

Title:Physical Development of Middle Adulthood Author: Melissa McNamara Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: It is an article that explains the physical changes that people go through in middle adulthood. How This Influenced My Thinking: This gave me an overall idea of our physical decline as we enter middle adulthood, but many other aspects increase or improve when we enter this age life finances, wisdom/knowledge/education and socially as well Credibility of Source:medium

Title:Factors that Make a Difference in Marital Success Author: Thomas R. Lee Date Published: 2013 Why Relevant and Summary: Gives highlights on what leads to a happy marriage as well as what factors contribute to maintaining a solid marriage. How This Influenced My Thinking: It gives the reader great insight as to what predisposed attributes two individuals possess that lead to a great marriage. Credibility of Source: High, professor at Utah

Title: Intellectual, Psychosocial and Moral Development in College: Four Major Theories Author: Joanne Kurfiss Date Published: 1983 Why Relevant and Summary: This is an excerpt from a book that gives a great break down in William Perry's reflective judgement theory How This Influenced My Thinking: It gave me a detailled description of each stage of thinking, particularly a great explanation of relativism and relativism/ commitment Credibility of Source: high

Title: Theories of Development Author: W.C Crain Date Published:1985 Why Relevant and Summary: This gives us a great breakdown of Kohlbergs six stages giving great historical examples of moral behavior. How This Influenced My Thinking: It gave me a great understanding of post conventional reasoning and made the difference between stage 5 and 6 very clear Credibility of Source: old source but still a goody

Title:More tha a funny word Author: the Nemours Foundation Date Published:2013 Why Relevant and Summary: This is a great overall summary of puberty ad adresses the changes that occur during this time in everyone's lives. this wesite is specifically aimed for teenagers so it is easy follow and yet very informative. How This Influenced My Thinking: Gave me great perspective on the types of changes that occur during puberty and the way it is worded and writte made me feel like i was 16 again being reassured that what i am feeling is totally natural. Credibility of Source: high. its a .org

Title:Middle Childhood to Middle Adolescence: Development from Ages 8 to 18 Author:Blume & Zembar Date Published:2009 Why Relevant and Summary: This source is all about middle childhood and adolescence and gives you a good sense how the progression from childhood into adolescence including social interactions How This Influenced My Thinking:This source gave me a good understanding about peer relationships in particular in what makes middle age children socially acceptable and popular Credibility of Source:high

Title:IQ scores not accurate marker of intelligence, study shows Author: Michelle Castillo Date Published:2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This is a good article that disputes the standard measures of intelligence. How This Influenced My Thinking: It gave me good insight on how cognitive abilities is truly measured and that there is not one sure way approach to do this. Credibility of Source: medium good sources within the article

Title:Parenting Styles in a Cultural Context: Observations of ''Protective Parenting'' in First-Generation Latinos Author:Rodriguez, m. et al Date Published:2009 Why Relevant and Summary:Looks at latino parenting stlyes through the lense of Baumrind's styles and concepts How This Influenced My Thinking: It made me realize that certain cutures like the latin american culture might have trouble using Baumrind's concepts might not hold water in other cultures because they have a diferent interpretation and measurement of responsiveness and demandingness. Credibility of Source:High licensed psychologists

Title RN Mental Health Nursing: Author:ATI Date Published:2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Gave me great insight through a nursing perspective of the symptoms of ADHD How This Influenced My Thinking: great information on the condition known as ADHD as well as treatment. Credibility of Source: High

Title:Attachment, Motherhood and Mental Health Author:Jessica Zucker Date Published:2011 Why Relevant and Summary: great blog regarding attachment and how it can effect mental health throughout the lifespan How This Influenced My Thinking: Gave me some great information about attachment and how it effects people throughout adulthood as well as how to mend insecure attachment. Credibility of Source: high. PBS found a licensed psychologist to post this blog

Title:Visual Habituation and Dishabituation in Preterm Infants: A Review and Meta-analysis Author:Michael Kavšekand Marc H. Bornstein Date Published:2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Gives great detail regard habituation and dishaituation through a cognitive perspective and neurological perspective. Scientific. How This Influenced My Thinking: This gave a very in depth description of these terms and even compares these techniques across the life span. Credibility of Source: high

Title:Jean Piaget Author:Sean Mcleoud Date Published:2009 Why Relevant and Summary:great overview about Piaget's theories as well as information regarding Piaget himself. Has some videos as well exemplifying some of his concepts. How This Influenced My Thinking: This helped me get a better grasp on Piaget's sensorimotor stage of development and his understanding of an infants cognitive development. Credibility of Source:medium

Title:Nutrition and Brain Development in infants, toddlers and preschoolers Author:Kristin Mortensen Date Published: 2013 Why Relevant and Summary: This article talks about all of the important nutrients needed for an infant to grow neurologically and phsyically. How This Influenced My Thinking:gives great insight as to how each important nutrient effects a baby's brain development. Credibility of Source: high, author is a registered dietitian as well as journalist.

Title: Nature vs. Nurture: Are we really born that way? Author: Kimberly Powell Date Published: 2013 Why Relevant and Summary: This article gives a great overview of this debate and gives historical information as well. How This Influenced My Thinking: This influenced my thinking regarding certain controversial attributes that are involved in this debate such as morality and sexual orientation. Credibility of Source: medium. informational website but not a credible author.

Title: Cultural differences among birthing women Author: Brenda Lane Date Published:2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Informative article that explains cultural differences in the birthing process including support system and who is involved in the process. Gives great examples across different cultures. How This Influenced My Thinking: Made me realize that there are different views on how a child should be birthed i always thought that the father has to be present no matter what in the process. This is not the case among people of other cultures. Credibility of Source: Medium.

Title:Prenatal care fact sheet Author:Womens health revised by John Schmitt MD Date Published:2009 Why Relevant and Summary: This is a list of the most commonyl asked questions regarding prenatal care and containes etensive answers for each question. it is relevant because it answers all of the most important questions surrounding pregnancy and it is also revised by a licensed physician. How This Influenced My Thinking: This influenced my thinking because of its high credibility and target audience. It is in a womenshealth website reviews by healthcare professionals so it is taken into account for many women who are about to have a child or are thinking of having a child. It really shined a light for me in regards to consumig folic acid during pregnancy and how important it is for preventing birth defects. Credibility of Source: High its a .gov

Title: Theories of Adolescence Author: R.E Muuss Date Published: 2006 Why Relevent: This book in chapter 14 applied multiple theories including bronfenbrenner's to the adolescent stage. It gives a great description of the theory and applies it to an adolescence network of friends and peers, it even takes into account cultural differences. How This Influenced My Thinking- It provides great examples of each system and goes in depth. It gives insight in the fact that each system not only infuences the individual but the individual infuences the system as well. Credibility: High.seeing as it is the sixth edition of this book being edited and redone multiple times.

Title:Readiness to change: A longitudinal study of changes in adult identity Author:Kristine Anthis , Joseph C. LaVoie Date Published: 2008 Why Relevant: This is a research article from the journal of research in personality which is a great source to begin with in regards to personality theory. This research article is a great example of the scientific research method and a great example of a longitudinal study. Its focus is also relevant to my topic which is identity formation and more specifically measures adult's readiness to change and its influence on identity formation How this influenced my thinking: I found the age range of the participants 22-60 to be interesting. It shines a light on the fact that identity it always changing no matter what age and stage in life a person is. I also found it interesting that they came up with two ways to measure readiness to change and that they discovered this to be a player in identity formation during adulthood. Credibility:High