Why take a Human Growth and Development course? What is Developmental Psychology? Should the meek inherit the earth? Did you violate the Law of Developmental Direction? True or false: Life has been created in a test tube?

After completing the Learning Activities for this Section, you should be able to:

1. DEFINE and APPLY the term "Developmental Psychology."
2. DIFFERENTIATE between quantitative and qualitative changes in development.
3. IDENTIFY and COMPARE at least three theories of human development.
4. CONTRAST normative and non-normative influences on development.
5. IDENTIFY and EVALUATE two approaches to studying human development.
6. RECOGNIZE and ASSESS the value of cross-cultural research.
7. NAME and RECOGNIZE elements of the Law of Developmental Direction.
8. LIST and DEFINE Freud's five stages of psycho-sexual development.
9. LIST and DEFINE Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development.
10. LIST and DEFINE Piaget's four stages of cognitive development.
 

VIDEO PROGRAMS: #1 "Theories of Development"  #2 "Developmental Studies..."

TEXT: Read Chapter 1, "The Study of  Human Development" and Chapter 2 "Theory and Research"

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Where do babies come from? Are chastity belts old fashion? What are the three phases of prenatal development? Can a fetus see, hear, learn? Why are babies born into the "same" family so different? Is "Morning Sickness" a disease?

After completing the Learning Activities for this Section, you should be able to:

1. RECOGNIZE and ILLUSTRATE elements describing the process of conception.
2. NAME and DESCRIBE the mechanism that determines an organism's sex.
3. IDENTIFY and DIFFERENTIATE between the three phases of prenatal development.
4. EVALUATE the benefits and risks of genetic testing.
5. IDENTIFY and ASSESS various activities of the fetus.
6. DEFINE maturation and the influence of environment.
7. IDENTIFY and ASSESS maternal factors that influence prenatal development.
8. IDENTIFY and ASSESS paternal factors that influence prenatal development.
9. LIST and DESCRIBE the three stages of childbirth.
10. NAME and EVALUATE the various birthing methods.

VIDEO PROGRAMS: #3 "The Beginings: Heredity and Environment"  #4 "The Beginnings: Prenatal Development"

TEXT: Read Chapter 3, "Forming a New Life"

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What is a neonate? Do babies have personality? Why have children? What should a baby be named? Is a baby a "blessed event"? Are there LAWS governing a baby's development?

After completing the Learning Activities for this Section, you should be able to:

1. RECOGNIZE and DIFFERENTIATE among the adjustments of the newborn.
2. IDENTIFY three physical characteristics of the neonate.
3. ASSESS the development of the human brain.
4. be able to RECOGNIZE and UNDERSTAND the psychosociological factors involved in the family's adjustments to the newborn.
5. IDENTIFY the consequences of prematurity on newborns.
6. IDENTIFY the consequences of postmaturity on newborns.
7. DEFINE and EXPLAIN SIDS.
8. LIST a newborn's states of arousal.
9. COMPARE and CONTRAST how heredity and environment interact in the process of growth.
10. IDENTIFY a newborn's capacities per seeing, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
 

VIDEO PROGRAMS: #5 "The First Two Years: Biosocial..."

TEXT: Read Chapter 4 "Physical Development During the First Three years"

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Are babies smart? Did Piaget have children? Is an only child a lonely child? What does a hunger cry sound like? Can intelligence be taught? Do babies hate? Do babies imprint or do they bond? What is a SIB?
 

After completing the Learning Activities for this Section, you should be able to:

1. CONTRAST the terms learning and maturation.
2. IDENTIFY and EVALUATE the influences of mother on cognitive development, and father too.
3. DEFINE and ASSESS how classical and operant learning interact to produce complex learning.
4. RECOGNIZE and APPLY elements of language development as pertaining to intellectual development.
5. DEFINE "motherese."
6. IDENTIFY and APPLY the characteristic elements of a child's emotional development.
7. DEFINE and EXPLAIN the three stages of emerging self-awareness.

 

Learning Activities

TEXT: Read Chapters 5 and 6 "Cognitive Development..." and "Psychosocial Development..."

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Abuse	Maturation
Amniocentesis	Nativism
Attachment	Neonate
Autonomy	Operant Conditioning
Behaviorism	Phenotype
Cephalocaudal	Proximodistal
Cesarean	Psychosocial development
Classical Conditioning	Scientific method
Cognitive	Self-awareness
Cross Sectional	Sensorimotor
Dizygotic	Separation anxiety
Failure to thrive	Sex chromosomes
Genotype	States of arousal
Habituation	Stranger anxiety
Linguistic	Temperament
Longitudinal	Zygote

Below are fifteen sample test items. They are presented as so to give you an idea of what kind of questions to expect on the Test that counts. Additionally, they will serve as a review. A good score is twelve or more correct.

1. In developmental psychology, the implicit assumptions made about the nature of Man's development often focus on:
1. the malleability of behavior.
2. the relationship of child to adult behavior.
3. the innate potential for good or bad in mankind.
4. all of the above.
 

2. A change in height or weight is referred to as what kind of change?
1. qualitative
2. psychological
3. quantitative
4. social
 

3. Careful observation, recording of data, testing of alternative hypotheses, and public dissemination of findings and conclusions are phases of which method?
1. humanistic
2. correlational
3. open-ended
4. scientific
 

4. Behavioristic theorists typically investigate:
1. thought.
2. motivation.
3. perception.
4. learning.
 

5. The age at which a child will begin crawling is primarily dependent on:
1. motivation.
2. rate of maturation.
3. diet.
4. parents.
 

6. According to Erikson's stage theory of man:
1. a person's behavior and his understanding of himself are partly determined by social-role expectations.
2. a person's personality and his social-self undergo different lines of development.
3. basic mistrust is a necessary first step in the development of personality.
4. a person who conforms to social expectations is unable to actualize his potential.

7. Girl:
1. XX
2. XY
3. YY
4. XYX

8. During the first 4 weeks of life after birth, which is a transition time from support from the mother's body to independent existence, an infant is called a/an
1. gamete
2. neonate
3. zygote
4. premature baby
 

9. Which of the following statements about motor development is most accurate?
1. All infants respond with identical reflex behaviors to external stimuli.
2. Cultural differences in motor development are completely independent of genetic differences among peoples.
3. Regarding motor development, there is considerable difference between cultures.
4. It is impossible to speed up or modify a child's motor development.
 

10. Which of the following statements about physical differences is true?
1. Boys are usually smaller than girls at birth.
2. Boys are more physically vulnerable than girls throughout life.
3. Infant boys and girls are very different.
4. Boys and girls are very different in reaching such maturational milestones as sitting up and walking.
 

11. Which of the following correctly states the relationship between maturation and learning?
1. Learning cannot take place without maturation.
2. Maturation cannot take place without learning.
3. Learning and maturation are unrelated.
4. Maturation and learning are indistinguishable from each other.
 

12. What is the first stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget?
1. representational
2. sensorimotor
3. reflexive
4. circular reactions
 

13. Language learning based on experience is to as language learning based on an inborn capacity is to .
1. nativism; learning theory
2. motherese; causality
3. learning theory; nativism
4. causality; motherese
 

14. Which of the following, according to Erikson, represents an important step toward autonomy?
1. toilet training
2. language
3. walking
4. all of the above
 

15. Which of the following applies to abused, battered, and neglected children?
1. They are resilient, especially if they have a supportive family member to whom they can form an attachment.
2. They tend to be sexually maladjusted, have low-self-esteem, and have difficulty trusting others.
3. They are more likely to repeat a grade, to do worse on cognitive tests, and to be discipline problems in school.
4. all of the above
 

ANSWERS TO SELF TEST: (1) 4, (2) 3 (3) 4, (4) 4, (5) 2, (6) 1, (7) 1, (8) 2, (9) 3, (10) 2, (11) 1, (12) 2, (13) 3, (14) 4, (15) 2.