Lindsey
Study Guide: Life Span (10 points on top)
Chapter 8
Define the following terms:
Accommodation
Object permanence
Anal stage
Oedipal conflict
Assimilation
Oral stage
Conservation
Phallic stage
Critical Period
Representational thought
Developmental psychology
Role taking
Electra complex
Rooting reflex
Genital stage
Schemas
Grasping reflex
Separation anxiety
Identification
Socialization
Imprinting
Sublimation
Latency stage
Telegraphic speech
Maturation
What is one-question developmental psychologists seek to answer?
When does development begin in an infant?
How do psychologists measure capabilities of newborn infants?
Discuss the process of maturation regarding the growth of babies (Motor
development assignment)
By recording the ages at which thousands of infants first began to smile, to sit
upright, to crawl, and to try a few steps, psychologist have been able to draw up an
approximate timetable for maturation. How does the schedule help doctors and
professionals spot?
Piaget spent years observing, questioning, and playing games with babies and young
children. What did Piaget conclude?
What does each stage do regarding the last stage that past?
Describe each stage of Jean Piaget’s stages of Cognitive Development
Stage 1:
Stage 2:
Stage 3:
Stage.4
Be able to identify each stage (Application of Stages of Cognitive Development
worksheet)
At about 10-12 months, what do many children go through?
Separation anxiety is defined as
Why would an older child be more confused by the mom’s disappearance?
What did the disappearance lead to?
Emotional Development
Goslings, when born, go through a critical period, how many hours after birth is
considered the critical period?
What did Harry Harlow study?
Describe in detail, Harry Harlow’s experiment with Rhesus monkeys
What did Harlow discover later on in life about the monkeys raised without real
mother?
How were these monkeys as adults?
What occurs around age 3?
Human Babies
According to one psychologist, children who are separated from their mothers
during the early period may never be able to do what?
Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development
Sigmund Freud believed that all children are born with what?
In learning to control these impulses, children acquire what?
Upon learning to control these impulses, children become what?
In the first few years of life, boys and girls have similar experiences with erotic
pleasures through what?
What is the major conflict that comes between ages 3-5?
Freud called the this theory if Oedipal Conflict, describe in detail the Greek tragedy:
Similar to the males’ Oedipal conflict, girls Electra complex can be describes how?
Theory of Psychosocial Development
What did Erikson believe about childhood experiences?
Describe Stages of Psychosocial Development
Stage 1: Oral-Sensory: Trust vs. Mistrust
Stage 2: Muscular-anal: Autonomy vs. Doubt
Stage 3: Locomotor-genital: Initiative vs. Guilt
Stage 4: Latency: Industry vs. Inferiority
Stage 5: Puberty-adolescence: Identity vs. Role Confusion
Stage 6: Young adulthood: Intimacy vs. Isolation
Stage 7: Adulthood: Generativity vs. Stagnation
Stage 8: Old age: Ego integrity vs. Despair
Describe the 6 stages of Moral Development
Stage 1
Stage 4
Stage 2
Stage 5
Stage 3
Stage 6
Chapter 9
Define the terms
Androgynous
Asynchrony
Authoritarian Families
Authoritative Families
Conformity
Democratic Families
Identity Crisis
Initiation Rites
Laissez-Faire Families
Menarche
Permissive Families
Puberty
Rationalization
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Sex Identity
Sex Role
Social Learning Theory
Spermarche
What is adolescence?
Is adolescence a carefree time to act on ideals unburdened by practical concerns?
Or is adolescence a time of crisis, rebellion, and unhappiness? Your opinion and
why?
Why do adults feel threatened by youth?
Why might adolescents provoke a negative reaction from their parents?
Regarding theories of adolescence, what does the following psychologist say?
G. Stanley Hall:
Margaret Mead:
Robert Havighurst:
What does transition from childhood-adulthood involves what transitions?
Regarding puberty, what takes place in boys and girls respectively?
Erik Erikson’s Theory of the Identity Crisis
What are the 4 factors of the identity crisis?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Describe 4 Adolescent personality types
Describe 2 criticisms of Erikson’s Theory
Describe a parenting style that you can associate with regarding you’re up bringing
Ageism
Chapter 10
Closed awareness
Decremental model of
aging
Generativity
Menopause
Mutual pretense
awareness
Open awareness
Stagnation
Suspected awareness
Thanatology
What is adulthood based on the definition you chose and why do you think it is that?
What type of health problems occur during adulthood and old age?
Describe Levinson’s Theory of Male Development?
Stage 1:
Stage 2:
Stage 3:
Describe the age-thirty crisis:
Describe the empty-nest syndrome
List and explain the five stages of death and dying