 Developmental
psychology
 Nature versus nurture
 Continuity and stages
 Stability and change
 Conception
 Zygote
 Embryo
 Fetus
 Placenta
 Teratogens
 Fetal alcohol
syndrome (FAS)
 Reflexes
 Habituation
 Brain development
 Maturation
 Motor
development
 Learning to walk
 Infantile
amnesia
 Cognition
 Jean Piaget
 Schema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1iqdHgIAig
 Assimilation
 Accommodation
 Sensorimotor
Stage
 Object permanence
▪ “out of sight, out of mind”
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCdLNuP7OA8
 Sensorimotor
Stage
 Object permanence
▪ “out of sight, out of mind”
 Sensorimotor
Stage
 Object permanence
▪ “out of sight, out of mind”
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCdLNuP7OA8
 Preoperational
Stage
 Conservation (lack this)
 Preoperational
Stage
 Conservation
 Preoperational
Stage
 Conservation
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnArvcWa
H6I
HOLOGRAPHIC SPEECH
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
1 year old
“Ball”
TELEGRAPHIC SPEECH


2 years old
“Want Ball”/”Where Ball”
 Egocentrism
 Theory of Mind
 Lev Vygotsky
 Concrete
Operational
Stage
 Understand
 Conservation
 Math transformations
▪ 8+4=12
▪ 12-4=8
 Formal
Operational Stage
 Abstract concepts (If this, then that)
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
PIAGET’S THEORY AND CURRENT THINKING
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
PIAGET’S THEORY AND CURRENT THINKING
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
PIAGET’S THEORY AND CURRENT THINKING
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
PIAGET’S THEORY AND CURRENT THINKING
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
PIAGET’S THEORY AND CURRENT THINKING
 Influential theory
 Development is more continuous
 Larger emphasis on social factors
 Children respond better to positive
instructions
 Vygotsky
 Zone of proximal development
 Autism
 Stranger
anxiety
 Attachment
 Body contact
▪ Harry Harlow’s
 Familiarity
▪ Critical period
▪ Imprinting
▪ Sensitive period
▪
▪
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O60TYAIgC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7fT4JLJ7Y
studies
Psychologists Harry Harlow and Margaret
Harlow raised monkeys with two artificial
mothers—one a bare wire cylinder with a
wooden head and an attached feeding
bottle, the other a cylinder with no bottle but
covered with foam rubber and wrapped with
terry cloth. The Harlows’ discovery surprised
many psychologists: The infants much
preferred contact with the comfortable cloth
mother, even while feeding from the
nourishing mother.
Monkeys raised with
artificial mothers were
terror-stricken when
placed in strange
situations without their
surrogate mothers.

Ainsworth’s “strange situation”
 Secure attachment
 Insecure attachment
 Temperament
 Easy, difficult & slow to warm up babies
 Erikson’s
Basic trust
 Early deprivation of attachment
 Disruption of attachment
 Does day care affect attachment?
 Self-concept
 Self-esteem
 Self-awareness
 Parenting
styles
(Baumrind)
 Authoritarian
 Permissive
 Authoritative
 Correlation
causation
versus
 Differences
in child-rearing from
culture to culture
GENDER DEVELOPMENT
THE NURTURE OF GENDER
 Experience
and brain development
 Experience
and brain development
 Experience
and brain development
 Experience
and brain development
 Experience
and brain development
 How
much credit (or blame) do
parents
deserve?
 Peer
influence
 Adolescence
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
 Piaget’s
formal
operations
 Lawrence
Kohlberg
 Preconventional morality
 Conventional morality
 Postconventional morality
 Moral
 Moral
feeling
action
 Forming
an identity
 Identity
 Social identity
 Intimacy
 Parent
and peer relationships
 Emerging
adulthood
 Physical
changes in middle adulthood
 Menopause
 Physical
changes in later life
 Life expectancy
 Sensory abilities
 Health
 Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
 Recall versus recognition
 Prospective memory
 Recall versus recognition
 Prospective memory
 Cross-Sectional
Evidence
 Cross-sectional study
 Longitudinal
Evidence
 Longitudinal study
 It
all depends
 Crystallized intelligence
 Fluid intelligence
 Well-being
 Death and
dying
 DABDA
across the life span
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL INFLUENCES ON
SUCCESSFUL AGING
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL INFLUENCES ON
SUCCESSFUL AGING
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL INFLUENCES ON
SUCCESSFUL AGING
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL INFLUENCES ON
SUCCESSFUL AGING
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
Death of a spouse most difficult to deal
with
Facing death with dignity and opennes
helps people complete life cycle with a
sense of meaninfulness
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s theory of the stages
of dying
 Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression,
Acceptance (DABDA)
 Nature versus nurture
 Continuity and stages
 Stability and
change
CONTINUITY AND STAGES
CONTINUITY AND STAGES
CONTINUITY AND STAGES
CONTINUITY AND STAGES