Ms. Richards
Psychology 2314
Exam II Review Chapters 4-7
Understand how emotional development is related to brain development
Understand distal and proximal parenting and the characteristics
Understand Piaget’s cognitive stages of development
Piaget’s developmental focus
Be familiar with the significance and formation of synchrony
Be familiar with attachment styles
Understand the concepts separation anxiety, social referencing and stranger danger
Be familiar with the differences in play behaviors of mothers and fathers
Milestones of Piaget’s development (conservation, centration, object permanence,
egocentrism, reversibility, static thinking, and affordances)
The significance of the prefrontal cortex
Function of the hippocampus, the limbic system, and the corpus callosum
Understand the concept of animism
Stages of language development
Be familiar with Vygotsky’s contribution to development
Fast mapping
Over regulation
Just right phenomenon
Parenting styles and the effects of parenting styles on attachment
Separation anxiety
Psychoanalytic stages of development
Psychosocial stages of development
Erikson’s theory
Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development
Scoffolding
Social mediation
Understand the process of social comparison
Private speech
Self-concept and self-esteem
Punishments and reinforcers
Differences in mother-infant and father-infant interactions
Social cognitive theories of development
Behaviorist theory of development
Cognitive schemas and cognitive theories of development
Factors responsible for height differences in children
The significance of myelination
Infant perceptual abilities
Opposing theories of infant language acquisition and definition of language shift
Advantages and disadvantages of traditional care taking roles of mothers and fathers
Epigenetic theories of development
What are characteristics of Developmental pathology?
What is the Flynn effect?
Recognize conditions of maltreatment
Understand the importance of emotional regulation and be able to recognize and
parenting styles that contribute
Proximal and distal parenting practices
Recognize types of play
What are some ways in which children learn to control aggressive tendencies?
Understand the forms of aggression and bullying behaviors
Factors contributing to obesity in children
Understand the concept of automization and selective attention and factors that contribute
What is selective attention?
Know the definition of pathology
Theory-Theory phenomena
Theory of mind phenomena
What is hidden curriculum?
Abuse, maltreatment, neglect concepts and the factors that contribute to each
Primary, secondary, and tertiary approaches to emergencies
Understand the concept of autonomy and be able to recognize
Be familiar with the mental disorders and learning disorders as presented in the text
What are the characteristics involved in maintaining a positive attitude?
What are functions of a family?
Understand the characteristics of the rejected and neglected child
Be familiar with the factors associated with the child at risk for low school performance