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Chapter 8: Human Development


Learning Objectives

Chapter 8: Human Development

  1. Define development.
  2. Describe the issue of maturation vs. experience as it relates to development.
  3. Distinguish between the continuity and discontinuity explanations of development.
  4. Discuss the impact of social policy on child development.
  5. Discuss the course of prenatal development, including the germinal, embryonic and fetal periods.
  6. Explain the impact of different teratogens on prenatal development.
  7. Describe the physical development of infants, including reflexes, motor development, perceptual skills, brain development, and nutritional needs.
  8. Discuss the course of physical development in childhood.
  9. Explain Piaget's concepts of assimilation and accommodation.
  10. Describe the challenges and achievements that occur in Piaget's sensorimotor stage.
  11. Discuss the characteristics of Piaget's stages of concrete operational thought and formal operational thought.
  12. Summarize the main contributions and criticisms of Piaget's theory.
  13. Explain Vygotsky's view of cognitive development.
  14. List and describe the childhood stages of Erikson's socioemotional theory of development.
  15. Discuss the process of attachment during infancy.
  16. Distinguish among Baumrind's parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative, neglectful, and indulgent.
  17. Discuss cultural, social class, and ethnic variations in families.
  18. Describe Hall's storm-and-stress view of adolescence and contrast that view with contemporary research on adolescence.
  19. Describe the events that characterize puberty.
  20. Describe cognitive development in adolescence and explain adolescent egocentrism.
  21. Describe moral development according to both Kohlberg and Gilligan.
  22. Contrast the old and new models of parent-adolescent relationships and discuss the importance of peer relationships to adolescents.
  23. Discuss identity development in adolescence according to both Erikson and James Marcia.
  24. Identify adolescent challenges and describe the components of programs that successfully meet these challenges.
  25. Describe the course of physical development in early to middle adulthood and in late adulthood.
  26. Trace the changes in cognitive abilities that occur as we get older.
  27. Discuss socioemotional development issues that affect early and middle adulthood.
  28. Distinguish between Erikson's and Levinson's theories of adult personality development.
  29. Contrast the life-events approach and the stages approach to adult development.
  30. Define activity theory and identify the components of successful aging.
  31. Describe the challenges that accompany death and dying.

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