Psychology Unit 5 over Chapters 10 & 11
Chapter 10 “Human Development”
(pages 397-439)
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Chapter 11 “Emotion & Motivation”
(pages 445-487)
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Identify ways to think critically about developmental findings
Clarify how nature & nurture can contribute to development
Track the trajectory of prenatal development & identify barriers to
normal development
Describe how infants learn to coordinate motion and achieve major
motor milestones.
Understand major theories of the mechanisms by which children
learn.
Explain the processes by which children acquire knowledge in
important cognitive domains.
Describe how & when children establish emotional bonds with their
caregivers.
Explain the environmental & genetic influences on social behavior &
social style in children.
Determine how children’s understanding of morality & important
social concepts like gender develop
Determine the physical, emotional, & cognitive changes that take
place during the transition from childhood to adulthood.
Identify developmental changes during major life transitions in
adults.
Summarize the nature of age-related decline in physical, social, &
cognitive domains.
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Describe the major theories of emotion
Identify unconscious influences on emotion
Explain the importance of nonverbal expression of emotion
Describe the 4 levels of personal space
Identify major lie detection methods and their pitfalls
Describe the emerging discipline of popular psychology
Identify common myths & realities about happiness & self-esteem
Define motivation
Explain basic principles & theories of motivation
Describe the determinants of hunger, weight gain, and obesity
Identify the symptoms of bulimia & anorexia
Describe the human sexual response cycle
Identify common misconceptions about sexual orientation
Describe potential influences on sexual orientation
Identify principles and factors that guide attraction and relationship
formation
Describe the major types of love and the elements of love and hate
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FOR ALL CHAPTERS: THE GRAPHICS, ILLUSTRATIONS,
TABLES, CHARTS, END OF CHAPTER REVIEWS are
going to be essential in “chunking” the information.
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Terms for Success:
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Developmental psychology
(399)
Cross-sectional design (400)
Prenatal development (403)
Teratogens (404)
Rooting reflex (406)
Assimilation (408)
4 stages of cognitive
development (409)
Object permanence (409)
Piaget & stages of
development (408-410)
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Terms for Success:
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Vygotsky (411)
Imprinting (418)
Harlow’s experiment (419)
Permissive parenting (423)
Preconventional morality (427)
Conventional reasoning (427)
Secondary sex characteristics (432)
Identity vs identity confusion (434)
Menopause (438)
Decline of senses (438)
Day to Day for Chapters 10-11:
Monday, February 28: Special Considerations in Human Development
Tuesday, March 1: Developing Body: Physical & Motor Development
Wednesday, March 2: Cognitive Development
Thursday, March 3: QUIZ (Ch. 10 pgs. 399-417); Social & Moral
Development
Friday, March 4: Social & Moral Development; Adolescence &
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Discrete emotions theory (447)
Primary emotions (449)
Display rules (450)
Somatic Marker Theory (451)
James-Lange theory (451)
Cannon-Bard Theory (452)
Mere exposure effect (454)
Nonverbal leakage (456)
Social Distance (458)
Guilty knowledge test (461)
Positive psychology (462)
Happiness (465)
Durability bias (466)
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Hedonic adaptation (466)
Defensive pessimism (468)
Reduction theory (469)
Yerkes-Dodson law (470)
Maslow & Physiological needs
(472)
Glucostatic Theory (473)
Bulimia (475)
Anorexia (476)
Sexual response cycle
(477)Proximity principle (482)
Similarity principle (483)
Triangular theory of love (487)
Day to Day for Chapters 10-11:
Tuesday, March 8: TBA
Wednesday, March 9: Happiness & Self-Esteem
Thursday, March 10: QUIZ (Ch. 11 pgs. 447-468); Motivation
Friday, March 11: Attraction, Love, & Hate
Monday, March 14: REVIEW; retake quiz day
Tuesday, March 15: UNIT FIVE TEST
Adulthood
Monday, March 7: Theories of Emotion & Nonverbal expression
**Schedule is Tentative and can change