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PS230Lifespan DevelopmentTest-out Study Outline
Baseduponthe text: Jolley, J. M., & Mitchell, M. L. (1996).LifespanDevelopment:A TopicalApproach.
Madison,Wisconsin:Brown & Benchmark.ISBN: 0-697-12981-0
Exam:200 questionscovering all fourteenchapters,in a multiple choiceformat, coveringthe following topics:
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GoalsandObjectives
A.
Issuesand Methods
1.
Define lifespandevelopmentalpsychology
2.
Understandthe threemajor goalsof lifespandevelopmentalpsychology(description,
prediction, explanation)
3.
Understandhow normativeage-gradedevents,non-normativeevents,andcohortor
historical eventsinfluencedevelopment
4.
Know what the macrogenicmethodis andunderstandits value
5.
Describethe major developmentalcontroversies:Continuity versusdiscontinuity,
stability versuschange,natureversusnurture,maturationversuslearning,freewill versus
determinism,and individuality versusuniversality
6.
Understandwhat the scientificmethodis andwhy it is importantto developmental
psychology
7.
Know the qualities of a goodmeasure
8.
Be able to describethe most commonmeasuringtechniquesusedin lifespan
developmentalpsychology
9.
Understandthe strengthsandweaknesses
of commonmeasuringtechniques
10.
Know what a researchdesignis
11.
Know major researchdesignsusedin developmentalpsychology
12.
Know what kinds of measuringtechniquesareusuallyusedwith specificresearchdesigns
13.
Know the differencebetweendescriptiveandexperimentaldesigns
B.
Theoriesof humandevelopment
1.
Know the qualitiesof an idealtheory
2.
Know core conceptsofFreuds' andErikson'spsychoanalytictheories
3.
Know how Freud's andErikson'stheoriesandsimilar and how they differ
4.
Know the core conceptsof the learningperspectives
5.
Know how social learningtheorydiffers from operantand classicalconditioning
6.
Know the coreconceptsof Piaget's cognitivestructuralview
7.
Know the coreconceptsof the humanistictheoriesof Maslow andRogers
8.
Understandthe scientific meritsandweaknesses
of eachtheory
c-. Genesand environment
1.
Understanddifferent views of how natureandnurtureinteractto producedevelopment
2.
Have a basicunderstandingof humangenetics
3.
Know commongeneticdefectsandprenatalteststhat candetectthosedefects
4.
Know what the major teratogensareandwhat effectsthey may haveon a developing
embryoand fetus
5.
Know the commonchemicalfactorsthat influencedevelopmentprenatallyand
6.
postnatally
Know what sensorystablefactorsareandhavea basicunderstandingof how theymight
influencedevelopment
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Know what sensoryvariablefactorsareandhavea basicunderstandingof how they
might influence development
8.
Know why the conceptsof canalization,critical periods,heritability, andrangeof reaction
are importantto understandinghumandevelopment
9.
Know Bronfenbrener'shumanecologymodel
10. Know the major researchstrategiesusedby developmentalpsychologiststo help separate
the effectsof natureandnurture:within speciescomparisons,selectivebreeding,kinship
studies,andtwin studies
PhysicalDevelopment
1.
Know the stagesandmajor eventsassociatedwith prenataldevelopment
2.
Know the threephasesof birth
3.
Be familiar with the Apgar andBrazeltonNeonatalBehavioralAssessmentScale
4.
Know the factorsassociated
with pretermbirths and low birth weight babies
5.
Havea basicunderstandingof how neuronaland brain developmentaffect behavior
6.
Know the major glandsof the endocrinesystemandunderstandtheir role in human
development
7.
Know the sequenceof physicalandmotor developmentand decline
8.
Now major structuresof the senseorgansandtheir developmentalcourse
9.
Understandthe major theoriesof biological aging
LearningandMemory
1.
Know the differencebetweenproceduralanddeclarativeknowledge
2.
Understandthe role that classicalandoperantconditioningplay in humandevelopment
3.
Know the role of sociallearningin humandevelopment
4.
Understandthe importanceof sensationandperceptionfor memory
5.
Know the functions andcapacitiesof the threememorystages
6.
Know what aspectsof memorytendto remainstableaswe age,andwhich aspectstendto
changewith age
7.
Know at what agespeopletendto usespecificmemorystrategies
The developmentof intelligenceandcognition
1.
Know the history and assumptions
of the psychometricapproach
2.
Understandthe nature/nurturedebateasit appliesto the developmentof intelligence
3.
Understandthe stability/changedebateasit appliesto the developmentof intelligence
4.
Be familiar with commonagetrendsin mentalabilities
5.
Be familiar with Piaget'sviewsof cognitivedevelopment
6.
Be familiar with the systemsapproachto intelligence
7.
Know the similarities anddifferencesbetweenvariousviews of intelligence
Languagedevelopment
1.
Know the differencebetweenlanguageandcommunication
2.
Know the functional andstructuralpropertiesof language
3.
Know the developmentalstagesof languageacquisition
4.
Know commonage-relatedchangesin language
5.
Be familiar with major theoreticalapproaches
to languagedevelopment
Self andmoral development
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Understand
howcognitivedevelopment
is relatedto moralandselfdevelopment
2.
3.
Know the major theoriesof self
Understandhow the self developsduringthe lifespan
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Know Loevinger's stagesof egodevelopment
5.
Know what factorsareimportantfor the developmentof self-esteem
6.
Know what factorsareassociatedwith learnedhelplessness
7.
Understandthe major views of role-takingand social interaction
8.
Be familiar with Piaget'sandKohlberg'stheoriesof moral reasoning
9.
Know Hoffman's theoryof the developmentof empathy
10.
Know Restand Carroll's four processmodel of moral development
11.
Know which techniqueswork bestfor teachingchildrento be moral
Attachment
1.
Know the major theoriesof attachment
2.
Know which behaviorspromoteattachment
3.
Know what researchstrategiesareusedto studyattachment
4.
Know the characteristicsof secureand insecureattachment
5.
Know the effectsof maternalseparationon child development
6.
Be familiar with researchon alternativeor multiple caregivingsituations
7.
Be familiar with researchon father-infantattachment
8.
Know the bestway to promoteattachment
9.
Be familiar with HazanandShaver'sresearchon adult attachment
10.
Be familiar with Ausubel's theoryof satellization
Love and friendships
1.
Know how friendshipschangeduring the lifespan
2.
Know what factorsareassociated
with lonelinessand lack of intimacy
3.
Know why intimacy is importantfor people
4.
Know what factorsareimpQrtantfor establishingintimacy
5.
Know the major theoriesof how relationshipsareformed andwhy relationshipsmay
deteriorate
Know biological andpsychologicalaspectsof humansexuality
6.
7.
Know Sternberg'stheoryof love
Know the factorsassociated
with happyandunhappymarriages
8.
Know the factorsassociated
with divorce.
9.
Family
Understandthe role of the family as an agentof socialization
1.
Be able to describethe basicconceptsandpremisesof the family life-cycle approach
2.
Know the major familial developmentaltasksfor eachageperiod
3.
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Be able to describedifferentfamily forms andthe developmentalimpacttheseformshave
on family members
Be
able to describeBaurnrind'sthreeparentingstylesandthe impact of eachstyleon
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children
Be
able to describethe bestgeneralguidelinesfor rearingchildren
6.
Be able to describeresearchon the effectsof family sizeandbirth orderon children
7.
Understandhow both genesandhomeenvironmentinfluencedevelopment
8.
Gender
Describethe similarities andmajor psychologicaldifferencesbetweenthe genders
1.
Describethe possiblerolesof natureandnurturein determiningdifferencesbetweenthe
2.
genders
Explain why self-reporteddifferencesin suchvariablesasfearfulnessandempathydo not
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necessarilymeanthat thereis a naturalor real difference
Know the major theoriesof genderdifferences
Describedevelopmentalchangesin genderdifferences
Describecommonforms of genderstereotypingand their effectson malesandfemales
Understandthe importanceof scientificresearchfor understandinggenderdifferencesand
similarities
Personalitydevelopment
1.
Be familiar with early views of personality
2.
Know the coreconceptsof the psychoanalyticview of personalitydevelopment
3.
Know the core conceptsof egopsychology
4.
Know the core conceptsof humanisticpsychology
5.
Know the coreconceptsof learningtheory
6.
Know commoncriticismsof eachapproachto personalitydevelopment
7.
Understandthe natureversusnurturecontroversyas it appliesto personalitydevelopment
8.
Understandthe stability versuschangecontroversyas it appliesto personality
development
Deathanddying
1.
Know the different typesof death
2.
Know the biological indicatorsof death
3.
Be familiar with historicalindicatorsof death
4.
Be familiar with currentviewsof death
5.
Know how people'sviews of deathchangeasthey develop
6.
Be familiar with major theoriesof dying
7.,Be familiar with the grief process
8:
Know which variablesinfluencethe experienceof grief
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