Developmental PsychologyUNIT 9

Baby Ethan"What is it?"

Developmental Psychology

The analysis of how people are continually developing—physically, cognitively, and socially—from infancy to old age

Complete hand-out 9-2

The Big Questions...Nature vs.

Nurture—how do genetic inheritance and experience influence our development?

The Big Questions...Continuity vs.

Stages—is development a continuous, gradual process or does it proceed through a sequence of separate stages?

The Big Questions...Stability vs.

Change

—do our early personality traits persist through life, or do we become different persons as we age?

The Big Questions...place each item in the appropriate

category

What do you think? Scoring:

1. Add items 1, 4, and 7—reverse item #4

2. Add items 2, 5, and 8—reverse item #5

3. Add items 3, 6, and 9—reverse item #3

4. (Reverse meaning 0=5, 1=4, 2=3, 3=2, 4=1, 5=0)

Compare your scores with someone next to you.

Discuss and defend your responses

Child DevelopmentHabituation Neural Networks

Cognitive Development and Piaget

“Children are active thinkers” How the physical world

works How their minds represent it How other minds represent

it

Schemas—

Assimilate—

Accommodate—

Music genre example DVD player example

Piaget’s Stages #1 Sensorimotor

Stage: Experiencing the world

through senses and actions

Birth to 2 years Key ideas: object

permanence & stranger anxiety

habituation object permanence object permanence #2

Piaget’s Stages #2 Preoperational

Stage: representing things with words and images Ages 2-6/7 Pretend play and

egocentrism Egocentrism Categorization Awareness of Self

Piaget’s Stages #3 Concrete Operational

Thinking logically about concrete events, basic mathematic operations

Ages 7-11 Conservation

“Smart” Deductive Reasoning

Piaget’s Stages #4 Formal Operational

Stage—abstract reasoning and mature moral reasoning. Age 12 through

adulthood

Social Development Attachment, Temperament, and Parenting

Styles

Attachment• An emotional tie with

another person

• Forty Studies: Harlow’s attachment studies

• Hand out 9-8: Analyzing parenting style and attachment theory

Parenting Styles“Adi’s Story”

Parenting

Cognitive DevelopmentDeveloping Morality

Lawrence KohlbergPreconventional moralityConventional moralityPostconventional morality

Moral feeling

Moral action

Nature versus nurture

Continuity and stages

Stability and change

The Big Questions...

Continuity and Stages

Continuity and Stages

Continuity and Stages

Continuity and Stages