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Unit 9:Developmental Psychology
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Unit OverviewPrenatal Development and the NewbornInfancy and ChildhoodParents and PeersAdolescenceAdulthoodReflections on Two Major Develo
pmental Issues
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Developmental psychologyNature versus nurtureContinuity and stagesStability and change
Introduction
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Prenatal Development and the Newborn
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Conception
Conception
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ZygoteEmbryoFetus
Prenatal Development
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PlacentaTeratogensFetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Prenatal Development
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ReflexesHabituationNovelty-preference procedure
Sensation and perception
The Competent Newborn
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What is the ideal age, and why?
What is the worst age to be, and why?
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Infancy Childhood
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Brain developmentPruning processMaturation
Physical Development Brain Development
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Motor developmentLearning to walk
Physical Development Motor Development
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Infantile amnesia
Physical Development Maturation and Infant Memory
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CognitionJean Piaget
SchemaAssimilationAccommodation
Cognitive Development
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Sensorimotor StageObject permanence
“out of sight, out of mind”
Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking
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Preoperational StageConservation
Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking
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Egocentrism
Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking
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Theory of Mind ability to infer
others’ mental states
Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking
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Concrete Operational Stage
Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking
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Formal Operational StageAbstract concepts
Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking
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Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking
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Influential theoryDevelopment is more continuousLarger emphasis on social factors
Cognitive DevelopmentReflecting on Piaget’s Theory
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Stranger anxiety
Social Development
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AttachmentBody contact
Harry Harlow’s studies
FamiliarityCritical periodImprintingSensitive period
Social DevelopmentOrigins of Attachment
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Ainsworth’s “strange situation”Secure attachmentInsecure attachment
Social Development Attachment Differences: Temperament and Parenting
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TemperamentErikson’s Basic trust
Social Development Attachment Differences: Temperament and Parenting
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Early deprivation of attachmentDisruption of attachmentDoes day care affect attachment?
Social DevelopmentDeprivation of Attachment
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Self-conceptSelf-esteemSelf-awareness
Social DevelopmentSelf-Concept
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Are your parents:
Overbearing or uninvolved?Overprotective or distant?Strict or permissive?
Parenting Styles
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Parenting styles (Baumrind)AuthoritarianPermissiveAuthoritative
Correlation versus causation
Social DevelopmentParenting Styles
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What would you do if you saw your 3 year old son playing with Barbie dolls and wearing a princess dress?
What would you do if you saw your 3 year old daughter playing with Tonka trucks and Star Wars toys?
Social DevelopmentGender and Child-Rearing
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GenderInfluences on social development
Gender Development
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Gender and aggressionAggression
Physical versus relational aggressionGender and social powerGender and social connectedness
Gender DevelopmentGender Similarities and Differences
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Sex chromosomesX chromosomeY chromosome
Sex hormonesTestosterone
Gender DevelopmentThe Nature of Gender
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Gender RoleRole
Gender and child -rearingGender identityGender typing
Social learning theory
Gender DevelopmentThe Nurture of Gender
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Gender DevelopmentThe Nurture of Gender
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Parents and Peers
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How much of an influence do your parents have on:
Your activities?Your religious views?Your musical interests?Your political views?Your style of dress?Your peer groups?Your career choice?
Parental Influences
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How much credit (or blame) do parents deserve?
Parents and Early Experiences
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How much do your friends influence:
Your activities?Your religious views?Your musical interests?Your political views?Your style of dress?Your career choice?
Peer Influence
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Peer influence
Peer Influence
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Adolescence
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Adolescence
Introduction
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PubertyPrimary sexual characteristics
menarcheSecondary sexual characteristicsTiming of sexual characteristics
Physical Development
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Piaget’s formal operations
Cognitive DevelopmentDeveloping Reasoning Power
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Lawrence KohlbergPreconventional moralityConventional moralityPostconventional morality
Moral feelingMoral action
Cognitive DevelopmentDeveloping Morality
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Preconventional Morality1. Avoids punishment—“Heinz will go to jail if he steals the drug.”2. Gains rewards—“Heinz will have someone to fix fine dinners for
him if his wife lives.”Conventional Morality3. Gains approval/avoids disapproval—“What would people think of
Heinz if he lets his wife die?”4. Does duty to support society/avoids dishonor or guilt—“Heinz
must live up to his marriage vow of protecting his wife.”Postconventional Morality5. Affirms agreed-upon rights—“Everyone agrees that people have
the right to live.”6. Abstract, autonomous moral principle—“Saving a life takes
precedence over everything else, including the law.”
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How can you tell that someone is your friend?
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You and your friends found a sheet of paper that
your teacher must have lost. On the paper are the
questions and answers for a test that you are going
to have tomorrow. Your friends all plan to studyfrom it, and they want you to go along with
them.You don’t think you should, but they tell you to
doit anyway. What would you really do: study
fromthe paper or not study from it?
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Forming an identityIdentitySocial identityIntimacy
Parent and peer relationships
Social Development
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Emerging adulthoodHow would you define adulthood?
Emerging Adulthood
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Adulthood
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Adulthood
WHAT ARE
YOUR TEN
BUCKET LIST
ITEMS?
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Physical changes in middle adulthoodMenopause
Physical changes in later lifeLife expectancySensory abilitiesHealthDementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
Physical Development
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Recall versus recognitionProspective memory
Cognitive Development Aging and Memory
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Cross-Sectional EvidenceCross-sectional study
Longitudinal EvidenceLongitudinal study
It all dependsCrystallized intelligenceFluid intelligence
Cognitive DevelopmentAging and Intelligence
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Midlife transitionSocial clock
Social DevelopmentAdulthood’s Ages and Stages
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LoveWork
Social Development Adulthood Commitments
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Well-being across the life spanDeath and dying
Social Development Well-Being Across the Life Span
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Biopsychosocial Influences on Successful Aging
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Reflections on Two Major Developmental Issues
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Nature versus nurtureContinuity and stagesStability and change
Three Major Developmental Issues
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Continuity and Stages
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The End
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Definition Slides
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= a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span.
Developmental Psychology
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= the fertilized egg, it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.
Zygote
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= the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month.
Embryo
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= the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth.
Fetus
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= agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
Teratogens
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= physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman’s heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
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= decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner.
Habituation
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= biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.
Maturation
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= all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
Cognition
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= a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
Schema
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= interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.
Assimilation
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= adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information.
Accommodation
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= in Piaget’s theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.
Sensorimotor Stage
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= the awareness that things continue to exist when not perceived.
Object Permanence
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= in Piaget’s theory, the stage (from 2 to about 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic..
Preoperational Stage
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= the principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.
Conservation
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= in Piaget’s theory, the preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view.
Egocentrism
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= people’s ideas about their own and other’s mental states – about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict.
Theory of Mind
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= in Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events.
Concrete Operational Stage
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= in Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.
Formal Operational Stage
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= a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of other’s states of mind.
Autism
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= the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age.
Stranger Anxiety
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= an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation.
Attachment
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= an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism’s exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development.
Critical Period
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= the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.
Imprinting
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= a person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
Temperament
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= according to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers.
Basic Trust
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= our understanding and evaluation of who we are.
Self-concept
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= in psychology, the biologically and socially influenced characteristics by which people define male and female.
Gender
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= physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone.
Aggression
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= the sex chromosome found in both men and women. Females have two X chromosomes; males have one. An X chromosome from each parent produces a female child.
X Chromosome
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=the sex chromosome found only in males. When paired with an X chromosome from the mother, it produces a male child.
Y Chromosome
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= the most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty.
Testosterone
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= a set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave.
Role
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= a set of unexpected behaviors for males or for females.
Gender Role
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= our sense of being male or female.
Gender Identity
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= the acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role.
Gender Typing
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= the theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished.
Social Learning Theory
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= the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence.
Adolescence
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= the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.
Puberty
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= the body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that makes sexual reproduction possible.
Primary Sexual Characteristics
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= nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair.
Secondary Sex Characteristics
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= the first menstrual period.
Menarche
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= our sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent’s task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles.
Identity
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= the “we” aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to “Who am I?” that comes from our group memberships.
Social Identify
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= in Erikson’s theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood.
Intimacy
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= for some people in modern cultures, a period from the late teens to mid-twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood.
Emerging Adulthood
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= the time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines.
Menopause
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= a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.
Cross-sectional Study
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= research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period.
Longitudinal Study
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= our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
Crystallized Intelligence
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= our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.
Fluid Intelligence
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= the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
Social Clock