CLOSE REVIEWUnit 6 Review - Developmental Psychology
This review will guide you through an adaptive, research-backed study session. As you answer questions, we will actively assess your current understanding of the material. Questions will continue to be drawn until you have demonstrated mastery of each learning objective.
Reviews are graded based on completion. You will receive full credit for achieving 100% mastery or answering all questions.
Learning objectives for this review:
- Explain conception, gestation, and prenatal influences such as nutrition and teratogens, and assess how nature, nurture, and culture affect physical development and motor skills.
- Discuss how temperament and parenting styles impact childhood socialization and behavior, and apply key theories from researchers like Bandura and Baumrind to understand social development.
- Examine the progression of cognitive abilities in childhood and the contributions of key researchers, detailing Jean Piaget's stages and the Information Processing approach, along with the influential work of Lev Vygotsky.
- Discuss adolescent development and maturational challenges in adolescence, including related family conflicts.
- Characterize the evolution of decision-making regarding intimacy, predict the physical and cognitive changes throughout the lifespan, and identify key contributions from researchers in adulthood and aging, with a particular focus on Erik Erikson's work on lifespan development.
- Explore theories and contributions in moral development, identify major researchers, and compare different models of moral development, focusing on the contributions of Carol Gilligan and Lawrence Kohlberg.
- Describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development.