DEVELOPMENT
Essential Questions:
 What is behavior genetics?
 What is the nature vs nurture debate?
 What is evolutionary psychology?
 What is gender and how does it develop?
 How does life develop before birth?
 How do the brain and motor skills develop during infancy and childhood?
 What is Piaget's view of the mind's development?
 How do the bonds of attachment form, and with what effects later in life?
 What major changes occur during adolescence?
 How does Kohlberg and Erikson describe develop?
 What changes occur during middle and late adulthood?
VOCABULARY: Environment, behavior genetics, chromosomes, DNA, genes, genome, identical twins,
fraternal twins, temperament, heritability, interaction, diathesis-stress model, evolutionary psychology, natural
selection, gender, aggression, X chromosome, Y chromosome, testosterone, role, gender role, gender identity,
gender-typing, social learning theory, gender schema theory, Developmental psychology, fetus, teratogens, fetal
alcohol syndrome (FAS), rooting reflex, maturation, schema, assimilation, accommodation, cognition,
sensorimotor stage, object permanence, preoperational stage, conservatism, egocentrism, theory of mind,
autism, concrete operational stage, formal operational stage, stranger anxiety, attachment, critical period,
imprinting, basic trust, self-concept, adolescence, puberty, primary sex characteristics, secondary sex
characteristics, menarche, identity, menopause, Alzheimer's disease, cross-sectional study, longitudinal study,
crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence, social clock
STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Essential Questions:
 What are states of consciousness?
 How are our sleep-wake cycles regulated?
 What are the stages of sleep?
 Why do we dream?
 What are sleep disorders?
 What is hypnosis?
 What are psychoactive drugs?
 What are depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and their effects?
VOCABULARY: Consciousness, biological rhythms, circadian rhythm, REM sleep, alpha waves, sleep,
hallucinations, delta waves, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, night terrors, dream, manifest content, latent
content, REM rebound, hypnosis, posthypnotic suggestion, dissociation, psychoactive drug, tolerance,
withdrawal, physical dependence, psychological dependence, addiction, depressants, barbiturates, opiates,
stimulants, amphetamines, methamphetamines, Ecstasy (MDMA), hallucinogens, LSD, THC, near-death
experience, dualism, monism
DEVELOPMENT
Essential Questions:
 What is behavior genetics?
 What is the nature vs nurture debate?
 What is evolutionary psychology?
 What is gender and how does it develop?
 How does life develop before birth?
 How do the brain and motor skills develop during infancy and childhood?
 What is Piaget's view of the mind's development?
 How do the bonds of attachment form, and with what effects later in life?
 What major changes occur during adolescence?
 How does Kohlberg and Erikson describe develop?
 What changes occur during middle and late adulthood?
VOCABULARY: Environment, behavior genetics, chromosomes, DNA, genes, genome, identical twins,
fraternal twins, temperament, heritability, interaction, diathesis-stress model, evolutionary psychology, natural
selection, gender, aggression, X chromosome, Y chromosome, testosterone, role, gender role, gender identity,
gender-typing, social learning theory, gender schema theory, Developmental psychology, fetus, teratogens, fetal
alcohol syndrome (FAS), rooting reflex, maturation, schema, assimilation, accommodation, cognition,
sensorimotor stage, object permanence, preoperational stage, conservatism, egocentrism, theory of mind,
autism, concrete operational stage, formal operational stage, stranger anxiety, attachment, critical period,
imprinting, basic trust, self-concept, adolescence, puberty, primary sex characteristics, secondary sex
characteristics, menarche, identity, menopause, Alzheimer's disease, cross-sectional study, longitudinal study,
crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence, social clock
STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Essential Questions:
 What are states of consciousness?
 How are our sleep-wake cycles regulated?
 What are the stages of sleep?
 Why do we dream?
 What are sleep disorders?
 What is hypnosis?
 What are psychoactive drugs?
 What are depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and their effects?
VOCABULARY: Consciousness, biological rhythms, circadian rhythm, REM sleep, alpha waves, sleep,
hallucinations, delta waves, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, night terrors, dream, manifest content, latent
content, REM rebound, hypnosis, posthypnotic suggestion, dissociation, psychoactive drug, tolerance,
withdrawal, physical dependence, psychological dependence, addiction, depressants, barbiturates, opiates,
stimulants, amphetamines, methamphetamines, Ecstasy (MDMA), hallucinogens, LSD, THC, near-death
experience, dualism, monism