What are your own direct experiences with poverty? How might poverty infl uence the biological, psycholo gical, and societal systems and, thereby, infl uence the direction of development? How does...

What are your own direct experiences with poverty? How might poverty infl uence the biological, psycholo gical, and societal systems and, thereby, infl uence the direction of development?

How does your culture infl uence your view of the life span? For example, what messages from your family, community, or ethnic group infl uence your sense of the distinctions between childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and elderhood?