11 and 12 Test Review
Chapter 11

Define developmental psychology
 Stages of prenatal development: know characteristics of each
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Effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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Trends in motor development
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Effects of culture on maturation
 Temperament
 Attachment: recognize the 3 main types and separation anxiety
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Belsky’s view of the environment’s effect on attachment
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Erikson’s stage theory
 Piaget’s stage theory: know the principles as well
 Kohlberg’s moral development

Primary and secondary sex characteristics

Marcia’s identities
 Social clocks
 Super’s Vocational Life Cycle
Chapter 12

Define personality and traits

Big 5
 Freud’s structure of personality: know primary and secondary process thinking as well

Levels of awareness

Defense mechanisms
 Psychosexual development

Jung: collective unconscious, introvert/extrovert
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Alfred Adler and Inferiority Complex
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B.F. Skinner: determinism
 Bandura: reciprocal determinism
 Rogers and Maslow

Eysenck

Essay Options
1.
The experience of midlife crises has been likened by some to the adolescent search for identity. In what ways are these 2 developmental phenomena similar? How are they different?
2.
On first learning about the different theoretical perspectives on personality, many people like the views of the humanistic theorists best. Why do you think this is? Are these reasons sound, scientific criteria for evaluating a theoretical perspective on personality?
3.
Discuss ways in which each of the major perspectives on personality has influenced some aspect of everyday life in modern society.