Development

• Discuss the course of prenatal development and the destructive impact of teratogens.
• Describe the capacities of newborns, reflexes, and the newborn senses in the first days after birth
• Stages of Development: Prenatal, Neonatal, Childhood
• Parenting- Attachment Theory, Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation
• Imprinting Konrad Lorenz
• Different Parenting Styles and their impact on children
• Contact Comfort - Harry and Mary Harlow
• Discuss the effect of body contact, familiarity, and responsive parenting on social attachments
• Describe the benefits of a secure attachment and the impact of parental neglect and separation, as well as day care on childhood development.
• Describe Piaget’s view of how the mind develops.Explain the terms schema, assimilation and accommodation
• Discuss his stage theory of cognitive development, noting current thinking regarding cognitive stages.
• Describe the adolescent’s growing reasoning power and Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. Why did Carol Gilligan break with Kohlberg on his theory of moral development
• Discuss the search for identity and the development of intimate social relationships during the adolescent years.
• Describe Erikson’s 8 stages of psychosocial development.
• Identify the major physical changes that occur in middle and older adulthood.
• Describe the impact of aging on adult memory and intelligence.

Terms

Nature vs Nurture

Cross Sectional Study versus Longitudinal Study

Stage Theories: Continuity and Discontinuity

Embryo

Zygote

Fetus

Placenta

Teratogen

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Rooting, Sucking, Grasping, Moro and Babinski reflex,

Conservation, egocentrism, animistic thinking, centration, irreversibility, object permanence

Theory of Mind

Attachment

Imprinting

Accommodation

Assimilation

Schema

Stranger anxiety

Sensorimotor stage

Preoperational stage

Concrete operational stage

Formal operarational stage

Preconventional

Conventional

Postconventional

Secure vs. insecure attachment (ambivalent / anxious or avoidant)

Authoritarian

Authoritative

Permissive

Theory of mind