Developing Through the Life Span – Chapter 4 (Psychology, Myers)
-Interaction of nature and nature (including cultural variations) in the determination of behavior
-Explain the process of conception and gestation, including factors that influence successful fetal development
-Discuss maturation of motor skills
-Describe the influence of temperament and other social factors on attachment and appropriate socialization
-Explain the maturation of cognitive abilities (Piaget’s stages, information processing)
-Compare and contrast models of moral development (e.g.Kohlberg and Gilligan)
-Discuss maturational challenges in adolescence, including related family conflicts
-Characterize the development of decisions related to intimacy as people mature.
-Predict the physical and cognitive changes that emerge as people age, including steps that can be taken to
maximize function.
-Describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development
-Identify key contributors in developmental psychology (e.g. Mary Ainsworth, Albert Bandura, Diana Baumrind,
Erik Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, Harry Harlow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Konrad Lorenz, Jean Piaget, Lev
Vygotsky)
Date
Topic
Reading Assignment/Homework
9/11
Physical development during Infancy and Childhood
139-146
Bring a toy from childhood to class
tomorrow
9/12
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
147-154
9/13
154-159
9/16
Infancy and Childhood Social Development
Attachment
Parenting Styles and Temperament
9/17
Adolescence: Physical and Cognitive Development
165-180
8/18
Adolescent Social Development: Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral
Development and Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory of
Development
Adulthood-Physical and Cognitive Development
180-194
9/19
9/20
9/23
9/24
Quiz over pgs. 139-164
Quiz over pgs 165-194
Adulthood-Social Development and Developmental Issues
FRQ over Development
Essay
Objective Test
Test
Developmental Project: Creating your Baby Book. This project is an opportunity to talk with your parents/
guardians/siblings about your personal development. You will need to find out the answers of the questions the
day before, and we will work on the questions in class and share the following day. The project is worth a TEST
GRADE, TOO!!
Define and identify the following terms and
individuals. Terms will be due the day of the
test objective test.
1. accommodation
2. adolescence
3. Alzheimer’s disease
4. assimilation
5. attachment
6. autism
7. basic trust
8. cognition
9. concrete operational stage
10. conservation
11. critical period
12. cross-sectional study
13. crystallized intelligence
14. developmental psychology
15. egocentrism
16. embryo
17. fetal alcohol syndrome
18. fetus
19. fluid intelligence
20. formal operational stage
21. habituation
22. identity
23. imprinting
24. intimacy
25. longitudinal study
26. maturation
27. menarche
28. menopause
29. object permanence
30. preoperational stage
31. primary sex characteristics
32. puberty
33. rooting reflex
34. schema
35. secondary sex characteristics
36. self-concept
37. sensorimotor stage
38. social clock
39. stranger anxiety
40. teratogens
41. theory of mind
42. zygote
My Baby Book: A Record of Development
Directions: You will design and create a personal baby book that discusses many aspect of your personal
development since day one! Follow the guidelines below (and exactly in this order) to create your baby
book. You may use your mom, dad, or other family references to connect your past to the developmental
concepts we will discuss in this unit. This is a creative assignment. Your baby book should not only
contain personal and factual information, but it should also be decorative and unique to your personality.
You should have a total of five pictures in your baby book (copies are fine). You should be creative,
colorful, and insightful, and careful of detail.
Section 1: Your General Fact Sheet-Include graphics and detail wherever possible.
A. In one paragraph, describe your mom’s pregnancy with you.
B. Why were you given your name?
C. What were the other names your parents were considering? Include both male and female names.
Section 2: Your physical development
1. How long was your mom in labor?
2. What was your birth weight and length?
3. Photo: Include a baby picture taken of you at or right around birth.
4. How many months old were you when you learned to sit up?
5. How old were you when your first tooth came in?
6. How old were your when you took your first step?
7. When were you officially potty trained?
8. When did you lose your first tooth?
9. Compare your development for items #4,5, and 6 with the averages. (look in your book)
10. Create a timeline of average brain development
11. Discuss myelination and at which point you might personally be affected.
12. What is your current vision? (Do you have 20/20 vision? Do you wear glasses, contacts?)
13. At what age did you get glasses and/or contacts?
14. Define “puberty” in your own words. Based on the characteristics of puberty, explain whether
adolescence comes at a fixed age for all.
15. Photo: Include a picture of yourself around the age of puberty
16. Make up and write a story about two friends (same gender as you), on who is an early bloomer and
one who is a late bloomer. How are their experiences different, better, or worse? What comes out of
both of their experiences?
17. Draw up a “Compare/Contrast” list between males and females for all the physical changes in both
genders’ adult years. Define all terms, and provide results or consequences wherever appropriate.
Section 3: Your Language Development-Include Graphics and detail where possible
18. What was your first word?
19. When did you first say this word?
20. Why was this word your first?
21. Were there any funny sounds, words, and/or phrases you used to use?
22. If so, what were these sounds, words, and/or phrases supposed to mean?
23. Define telegraphic speech, overgeneralization, and overextension (in your own words).
24. Did you use these forms of speech in any way? How? Provide examples.
25. Did you experience any language barriers during language formation? (i.e. stuttering, lisps, etc.)
26. Photo: Include a picture of yourself in the late-childhood years.
Section 4: Your Social-Emotional Development
27. Who were you most attached to and why?
28. Define “imprinting” and explain whether this theory supports your attachment.
29. Were there any object that you formed attachments with?
30. Were these attachments formed similar to Harlow’s “contact comfort”? Why or why not? Make sure
to define “contact comfort” in your own words.
31. Explain the overall effects of having no attachments in one’s childhood. Include a personal example if
your feel as though you fall into this category.
32. Photo: Include a picture from your early childhood years.
33. Summarize what adults experience, regarding later intimacy and attachment, as a result of the
various infancy attachment levels.
Section 5: Your Cognitive Development
34. Admit to and explain, with your greatest humility, a specific time when you performed or experienced
adolescent egocentrism, personal fable, and imaginary audience.
Section 6: Moral Development
35. Write a paragraph explaining “where you are” regarding Kohlberg’s theory of moral development.
36. Photo: Include your most recent (late adolescent) picture.
Section 7: Your Personality Development
37. Look at the “temperament theory” and Thomas and Chess’ temperament categories. Explain what
type of child you were, based on this information. Give detail or examples.
38. Write a ½ or 1 page personal journal about why stages #5 and #6 of Erikson’s eight stages of
personality development may be the highest hurdles to jump in life. Think about your middle school and
high school years and what’s to come in your post-high school years. Include physical, emotional,
cognitive aspects, and explain how these all fit into Erikson’s stages #5 and #6.
This may be hand-written in a scrapbook form, or you may type the information. In addition, you will
have time to work on this throughout the development unit.
ENTIRE PROJECT IS DUE
Monday, September 30, 2013