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Unit 9: Developmental Psychology

Unit 9: Developmental Psychology. Unit Overview. Prenatal Development and the Newborn Infancy and Childhood Parents and Peers Adolescence Adulthood Reflections on Two Major Developmental Issues.

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Unit 9: Developmental Psychology

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  1. Unit 9:Developmental Psychology

  2. Unit Overview • Prenatal Development and the Newborn • Infancy and Childhood • Parents and Peers • Adolescence • Adulthood • Reflections on Two Major Developmental Issues Click on the any of the above hyperlinks to go to that section in the presentation.

  3. Introduction • Developmental psychology • Nature versus nurture • Continuity and stages • Stability and change

  4. Prenatal Development and the Newborn

  5. Conception • Conception

  6. Prenatal Development • Zygote • Embryo • Fetus

  7. Prenatal Development • Placenta • Teratogens • Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

  8. The Competent Newborn • Reflexes • Habituation • Novelty-preference procedure • Sensation and perception

  9. What is the ideal age, and why? • What is the worst age to be, and why?

  10. Infancy Childhood

  11. Physical DevelopmentBrain Development • Brain development • Pruning process • Maturation

  12. Physical DevelopmentMotor Development • Motor development • Learning to walk

  13. Physical DevelopmentMaturation and Infant Memory • Infantile amnesia

  14. Cognitive Development • Cognition • Jean Piaget • Schema • Assimilation • Accommodation

  15. Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking • Sensorimotor Stage • Object permanence • “out of sight, out of mind”

  16. Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking • Preoperational Stage • Conservation

  17. Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking • Egocentrism

  18. Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking • Theory of Mind • ability to infer others’ mental states

  19. Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking • Concrete Operational Stage

  20. Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking • Formal Operational Stage • Abstract concepts

  21. Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget’s Theory and Current Thinking

  22. Cognitive DevelopmentReflecting on Piaget’s Theory • Influential theory • Development is more continuous • Larger emphasis on social factors

  23. Social Development • Stranger anxiety

  24. Social DevelopmentOrigins of Attachment • Attachment • Body contact • Harry Harlow’s studies • Familiarity • Critical period • Imprinting • Sensitive period

  25. Social DevelopmentAttachment Differences: Temperament and Parenting • Ainsworth’s “strange situation” • Secure attachment • Insecure attachment

  26. Social DevelopmentAttachment Differences: Temperament and Parenting • Temperament • Erikson’s Basic trust

  27. Social DevelopmentDeprivation of Attachment • Early deprivation of attachment • Disruption of attachment • Does day care affect attachment?

  28. Social DevelopmentSelf-Concept • Self-concept • Self-esteem • Self-awareness

  29. Parenting Styles • Are your parents: • Overbearing or uninvolved? • Overprotective or distant? • Strict or permissive?

  30. Social DevelopmentParenting Styles • Parenting styles (Baumrind) • Authoritarian • Permissive • Authoritative • Correlation versus causation

  31. Social DevelopmentGender and Child-Rearing • What would you do if you saw your 3 year old son playing with Barbie dolls and wearing a princess dress? • What would you do if you saw your 3 year old daughter playing with Tonka trucks and Star Wars toys?

  32. Gender Development • Gender • Influences on social development

  33. Gender DevelopmentGender Similarities and Differences • Gender and aggression • Aggression • Physical versus relational aggression • Gender and social power • Gender and social connectedness

  34. Gender DevelopmentThe Nature of Gender • Sex chromosomes • X chromosome • Y chromosome • Sex hormones • Testosterone

  35. Gender DevelopmentThe Nurture of Gender • Gender Role • Role • Gender and child -rearing • Gender identity • Gender typing • Social learning theory

  36. Gender DevelopmentThe Nurture of Gender

  37. Parents and Peers

  38. Parental Influences • How much of an influence do your parents have on: • Your activities? • Your religious views? • Your musical interests? • Your political views? • Your style of dress? • Your peer groups? • Your career choice?

  39. Parents and Early Experiences • How much credit (or blame) do parents deserve?

  40. Peer Influence • How much do your friends influence: • Your activities? • Your religious views? • Your musical interests? • Your political views? • Your style of dress? • Your career choice?

  41. Peer Influence • Peer influence

  42. Adolescence

  43. Introduction • Adolescence

  44. Physical Development • Puberty • Primary sexual characteristics • menarche • Secondary sexual characteristics • Timing of sexual characteristics

  45. Cognitive DevelopmentDeveloping Reasoning Power • Piaget’s formal operations

  46. Cognitive DevelopmentDeveloping Morality • Lawrence Kohlberg • Preconventional morality • Conventional morality • Postconventional morality • Moral feeling • Moral action

  47. Preconventional Morality 1. Avoids punishment—“Heinz will go to jail if he steals the drug.” 2. Gains rewards—“Heinz will have someone to fix fine dinners for him if his wife lives.” Conventional Morality 3. Gains approval/avoids disapproval—“What would people think of Heinz if he lets his wife die?” 4. Does duty to support society/avoids dishonor or guilt—“Heinz must live up to his marriage vow of protecting his wife.” Postconventional Morality 5. Affirms agreed-upon rights—“Everyone agrees that people have the right to live.” 6. Abstract, autonomous moral principle—“Saving a life takes precedence over everything else, including the law.”

  48. How can you tell that someone is your friend?

  49. You and your friends found a sheet of paper that your teacher must have lost. On the paper are the questions and answers for a test that you are going to have tomorrow. Your friends all plan to study from it, and they want you to go along with them. You don’t think you should, but they tell you to do it anyway. What would you really do: study from the paper or not study from it?

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