Development through the life
span
Today’s coming attractions
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We will meet 14 people people in
different stages of their life.
Who studied your thinking and
reasoning?
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Jean Piaget
Who Focused on your morality?
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Kohlberg
Who discussed how you develop
from youth through old age?
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Erickson
Janet believes that things can disappear
and never come back.
 Which of Piaget’s stages is she in?
 Sensorimotor stage
 What will she be able to understand
before going on to the next stage?
 Object permanence
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Billy thinks everything belongs to him.
He can not understand the world from
someone else’s viewpoint.
Which of Piaget’s stages is he in?
Preoperational stage
What tests can be used to see if he is getting
out of this stage?
Conservation of matter
“Do you have a brother”.
Samantha is 6 years old.
 Samantha can not do a math problem on
paper.
 Which of Piaget’s stages is she in?
 What can you do to help her solve the
problem?
 Concrete materials
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E.g. Montessori
Mike is raising a teenage son and
daughter, and wants to avoid them using
drugs.
 Should he use authoritarian or
authoritative parenting?
 Why?
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Jim does his homework in order to watch
TV.
 What stage of moral development is she
in?
 Preconventional
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Jane obeys the speed limit because it is
the law, not necessarily because she
thinks it is right.
 What stage of moral development is she
in?
 Conventional
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After much thought, Janet pickets an
abortion clinic (illegally) because she
feels it is the morally right thing to do.
 What stage of moral development is she
in?
 Postconventional
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Twee is 16 years old. She has pink hair,
and keeps changing her idea of what she
wants to do in life.
 Which one of Erickson’s eight stages is
she in?
 Identity VS role confusion
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Will is going to NSCC. He has a live-in
girlfriend, but often spends his time with
his male friends rather than her.
 Which one of Erickson’s eight stages is
he in?
 Intimacy VS isolation
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Harris retired from his job at Boeing, and
is wondering if his life was worth it, and
what he accomplished.
 Which one of Erickson’s eight stages is
he in?
 Integrity VS despair
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Joan is 36, and is working hard to climb
the ladder at work.
 Which one of Erickson’s eight stages is
she in?
 Generativity vs. stagnation
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Jan’s mother is 96 years old. She can
remember things about when Jan was a
child, but can not reason out to solve
simple problems.
 Discuss why, in terms of Crystallized and
fluid intelligence.
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Don has been told his dad has early
Alzheimer's disease.
 What can he expect in the future?
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What does it mean to say the “social
clock” varies from culture to culture?
William seems sociable and happy.
 What might we guess about his self
concept?
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