PSYC 235 Psychology of Adulthood Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · BS in Psychology · Psychology, counseling and social work · Updated

PSYC 235 follows Barbara Bjorklund's adult development textbook across eight modules. These samples move from three sources of change seen through the pandemic years, a father's evening walks and the research on daily steps, and three generations of one family's life lines, to fluid and crystallized abilities and dementia risk, retirement and purpose, whether personality changes after thirty, a synthesis of five recent reviews on loneliness in later life and a closing blog on prolonged grief disorder.

CoursePSYC 235 Psychology of Adulthood (PSYC235)
Credit hours3
ProgramBS in Psychology
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work8 of 8
Samples on this site8 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published PSYC 235 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What PSYC 235 covers

Forums fall in Modules/Weeks 1, 4 and 5, each a thread of 300 words or more and two replies of 150 words or more, every post with a citation from the textbook or a journal article no more than five years old and an integrated biblical concept.

Blogs come in Modules/Weeks 2, 6 and 8 with one response each, the Life Line in Module/Week 3 rests on interviews with two relatives and a two-page summary, and the Module/Week 7 Research Paper synthesizes five recent peer-reviewed articles in five pages.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes PSYC 235 Psychology of Adulthood this way:
This course focuses on viewing adult development as an integrative, dynamic, and continuous process terminated only at death. Theory and research will be applied to retirement and early to late adulthood.

PSYC 235 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1DB Forum 1 (Course Requirements Checklist also due)60Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2Blog 1 (Exam 1 also due)20Read the Week 2 sample
Week 3Life Line120Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4DB Forum 2 (Exam 2 also due)60Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5DB Forum 360Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6Blog 2 (Exam 3 also due)20Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Research Paper200Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8Blog 3 (Exam 4 also due)20Read the Week 8 sample

Where PSYC 235 papers lose points

PSYC 235 posts lose points when they cite journal sources older than five years, tack a verse onto the end instead of integrating a biblical concept, confuse history-graded with nonnormative events, or treat every memory change as dementia; the research paper loses most when it summarizes articles one by one instead of synthesizing them.

Using a PSYC 235 sample well

The samples cite Bjorklund, Ernst and colleagues, Surkalim and colleagues, Paluch and colleagues, Vleioras, Walczak, Livingston and colleagues for the Lancet Commission, Lin and colleagues, Henning and colleagues, Weziak-Bialowolska and colleagues, Bleidorn and colleagues, Wang and colleagues, Hoang and colleagues, Holt-Lunstad and Prigerson and colleagues.

PSYC 235 questions, answered

What textbook does PSYC 235 use?

Barbara Bjorklund's adult development text, published by Pearson in 2015, which every module assigns and all four 55-question exams cover.

How old can PSYC 235 sources be?

Journal articles cited in forums and the research paper may be no more than five years old, while the course textbook is always acceptable as a source.

Does PSYC 235 require biblical integration?

Yes; every forum thread and every reply must include an integrated biblical concept, not only a quoted verse, in addition to its citation.

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