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LIFE HISTORY REPORT

A life history allows us to learn about human development by interviewing someone and learning about the variety of experiences that affected their life. A life history will not tell you how people generally change over a lifetime, but it will give you ideas about the complexities of a life, the highs and lows, and both the normative and non-normative influences on life.

Your objective in this project is to prepare a life history by interviewing another person on several occasions. To get started, think about who you want to interview. It is up to you, but try to find someone who is at a different stage of life that you are. That is, if you are 18-25, choose a grandparent or a parent, or a generation younger. Other guidelines for choosing your subject follow. Part of what makes this assignment valuable is how it allows you to explore differences among people, and generational differences are often quite significant.

Choose an individual:

-Who you believe is relatively open, honest and reflective about personal matters

-Who is interesting to YOU and who you think would be interested in this project

-Who is accessible and available for repeated questioning

-Who has passed through several phases of life and has many life experiences to share

-Who is a relatively good narrator and is able to talk about him or herself