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Agendas and Homework for Spring Semester

Update: August 21, 2007

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Complete Set of PsychSim Worksheets in WordDOC Format

I. Developmental Psychology

•  Life-Span Approach

•  Research Methods (e.g. longitudinal, cross-section)

•  Hereditary-Environment Issues

•  Developmental Theories

•  Dimensions of Development

•  Physical

•  Cognitive

•  Social

•  Moral

•  Sex Roles, Sex Differences

Major Objectives :

• Distinguish between the cross-sectional and longitudinal approach to the study of development
• Discuss the controversy of nature vs. nurture in the field of development
• Explain how conception occurs and the course of prenatal development
• Chart and explain the stages of Jean Piaget's theory of development
• Chart and explain the stages of   Erik Erikson's theory of development
• Chart and explain moral development according to Lawrence Kohlberg
• Discuss the rationale behind Carol Gilligan's criticism of Kohlberg's research
• Examine the theories on effective parenting and attachment and impact of the research studies of Harry Harlow and Mary Ainsworth

Textbook and Lecture: Chapter 4—The Developing Person pp. 134-191

Homework : Myers Workbook Study Guide

Experiments : Conduct Piaget's learning task experiments on a child between the ages of 4-10

Projects : Child Observation Field Work (p. 11 of syllabus)

                  Illustrated Pop Up book (p. 12 of syllabus)

PsychSims :   Cognitive Development , Mind Reading Monkeys, and Helplessly Hoping

Video Resource : The Children are Watching / PBS Home Video

Video Clips :

•  Worth Publishers Digital Media Archives/Psychology (Harlow's Studies on Dependency in Monkeys, Testing Competency in Newborns, Reflexes of the Newborn, Object Permanence, Stranger Anxiety, Morelli's Strange-Situation Task, Piaget's Conservation Task, Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development)

•  Scientific American (Talkin' Babies, Baby Body Sense, The Magic Year, A Change of Mind)

•  The Mind (Teratogen and Their Effects on the Developing Brain and Mind, Capabilities of the Newborn, Infant Cognitive Development, Social Development in Infancy, The Effect of Aging on Cognitive Functions)

• Download Chapter 4 Powerpoint, bring to next class

• Get textbook, syllabus
• Begin Development Unit
• Bring the handout of slide presentation for Ch 4
• Lecture Notes, Media Clips

• Syllabus Signature Page--due
• Read pp. 134-149

Due 9/29

•  Continue Ch 4 Notes
• Continue Pop Up Book Project
• Video: The Children are Watching