Friday, March 28, 2014

Life Span Development review sheet


Chapter 7

-Myelination
- gross motor skills
-fine motor skills
-Piaget’s preoperational stage- know it
-Vygotsky zpd, language, speech
-attention
- familiarize yourself with both memory and language development.

Chapter 8

-Initiative vs Guilt
- Understanding the self and others
- emotions that pop up in this stage/self conscious emotions
- understanding and regulating emotions
- Morality- you need to know morality for both this chapter as well as Kohlberg in chapter 10
-Be familiar with the gender information
- birth order
- play

Chapter 9

-       brain development
-       Motor development
-       Disabilities and ADHD
-       Piaget’s concrete operational stage
-       Creativity
-       Intelligence- this is like half the chapter so it will be on the examJ

Chapter 10

-       Development of the self in Middle and late childhood
-       Industry vs inferiority
-       Emotional understanding changes and empathy
-       Kohlberg’s Moral Stages
-       Prosocial behavior
-       Moral personality
-       Peer changes, status, social cognition and bullying


Essay questions: pick 2 and they need to be at least a page and a half each.

  1.  Why is play Important?  What role does it play in childhood development?
  2. What is Creativity? What can we do to foster it in children and what are the positive outcomes of creativity?
  3. How does the “self” develop throughout early, middle and late Childhood?
  4. What is morality? How does moral behavior develop? 




Tuesday, March 4, 2014

LIFE SPAN Development- Essay Questions


1- Explain the nature- nurture debate and it's contrasting viewpoints.

2- Explain and describe Piaget's sensorimotor stage.

3- What is attachment? give types and what they look like.