Hypothesize about the causes of developmental changes.
Distinguish between cognitive (intellectual) and affective (emotional) development.
Develop a description of how your ideas about learning are supported by both cognitive and affective developmental theory.
Cognitive Developmental Theory
Review of Crystallized vs. Fluid Intelligence
Other Measures
Cognitive Domain: Piaget
Ages 0-2: Sensorimotor Stage
Ages 2-7: Preoperational
Preoperational vs. Concrete Operational (7-11 years old)
Pre/Concrete Operational vs. Formal Operational (11 and older)
Beyond the Cognitive Domain:
Affective Domain and Development
Kohlberg: Moral Development
Illuminated by Heinz's Dilemma
In Europe, a woman was near death from cancer. One drug might save her, a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The druggist was charging $2,000, ten times what the drug cost him to make. The sick woman’s husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said, “No.” The husband got desperate and broke into the man’s store to steal the drug for his wife. Should the husband have done that? Why?