Unit 6 Development
– AP Psych, Childers
I. Behavior Genetics
A. Genes
B. Twin Studies
C. Adoption Studies
D. Temperament Studies
E. Heritability
1. Group Differences
2. Nature and Nurture
F. Gene-Environment Interaction
G. Molecular Genetics
II. Evolutionary Psychology
A. Natural Selection
B. Human Sexuality
1. Gender Differences
2. Mating Preferences
C. Critiques of Evolutionary Persp.
III. Parents & Peers
A. Parents & Early Experience
1. Prenatal
2. Experience & Brain Developmnt
3. Parents?
B. Peer Influence
IV. Cultural Influence
A. Variation Across Cultures
B. Variation Over Time
C. Culture and the Self
D. Culture and Child Rearing
E. Similarities Across Groups
V. Gender Development
A. Similarities & Differences
1. Gender Aggression
2. Gender & Social Power
3. Gender & Social Connectedness
B. Nature of Gender
1. Carol Gilligan
C. Nurture of Gender
1. Gender Roles
2. Gender & Child Rearing
3. Parallel Processing
VI. Reflections on Nature & Nurture
VII. Prenatal Development & Newborns
A. Conception
B. Prenatal Development
C. Newborn
VIII. Infancy & Childhood
A. Physical Development
1. Brain
2. Motor
3. Maturation & Memory
B. Cognitive Development
1. Jean Piaget
a. Sensorimotor
b. Preoperational
(1) Lev Vygotsky
c. Concrete Operational
d. Formal Operational
C. Social Development
1. Attachment
a. Body Contact
(1) Harry Harlow
b. Familiarity
(1) Konrad Lorenz
2. Attachment Differences
a. Mary Ainsworth
3. Deprivation of Attachment
a. Disruption
b. Day Care?
4. Self-Concept
5. Child-Rearing
a. Diana Baumrind
IX. Adolescence
A. Physical Development
B. Cognitive Development
1. Reasoning Power
2. Morality
a. Lawrence Kohlberg
C. Social Development
1. Erik Erikson
2. Forming Identity
3. Parent & Peer Influence
X. Emerging Adulthood
XI. Adulthood
A. Physical Development
1. Over the ages
2. Life Expectancy
3. Sensory Ability
4. Dementia & Alzheimer’s
B. Cognitive Development
1. Aging & Memory
2. Aging & Intelligence
C. Social Development
1. Ages & Stages
a. Albert Bandura
2. Commitments
a. Freud
3. Well Being
4. Death & Dying
XII. Two Major Developmental Issues
Unit 6 Development
– AP Psych, Childers
Study Guide
After studying this unit, you should be able to:
1. Discuss interaction of nature and nurture in determination of behavior.
2. Explain the process of conception and gestation, including factors that influence fetal
development.
3. Discuss maturation of motor skills.
4. Describe the influence of temperament and other social factors on attachment and
socialization.
5. Explain the maturation of cognitive abilities, including Piaget’s stages.
6. Compare and contrast Kohlberg and Gilligan’s models of moral development.
7. Discuss challenges in adolescence.
8. Explain how parenting styles influence development.
9. Predict physical and cognitive changes that emerge as people age.
10. Describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development.
11. Identify key contributors: Mary Ainsworth, Albert Bandura, Diana Baumrind, Erik Erikson,
Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, Harry Harlow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Konrad Lorenz, Jean
Piaget, Lev Vygotsky
Unit Plan (subject to change)
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