Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The physiological processes related to pregnancy, childbirth, and growth throughout the lifespan.
- The relationship between physical, social, and cognitive factors that influence development.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Use theories of development to explain why people might make different choices at each stage of life about a particular issue or experience.
- Summarize complex theories of development into simpler, but still accurate, terms.
- Assess a person's level of physical, cognitive, and social development following a multistep procedure and analyzing the results in light of the theories described in the text.
- Explain which stages of each developmental theory apply to each stage of life.
- Synthesize the theories of development for each stage of life to explain why choices may differ throughout the lifespan.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are physical, cognitive, and social factors that influence development.
- Many different developmental theories apply to each stage of life.
- Many different developmental theories can be applied to their own lives.
Vocabulary
- zygote
- embryo
- fetus
- teratogens
- fetal alcohol syndrome
- rooting reflex
- habituation
- maturation
- schema
- assimilation
- accommodation
- sensorimotor stage
- pre-operational stage
- concrete operational stage
- formal operational stage
- object permanence
- conservation
- egocentrism
- attachment
- critical/sensitive period
- imprinting
- adolescence
- puberty
- menarche
- menopause
- crystallized intelligence
- fluid intelligence
- APGAR
- preconventional morality
- conventional morality
- postconventional morality
- identity crisis
- trust vs. mistrust
- autonomy vs. shame and doubt
- initiative vs. guilt
- industry vs. inferiority
- identity vs. role confusion
- intimacy vs. isolation
- generativity vs. stagnation
- integrity vs. despair
- authoritarian parenting
- permissive parenting
- authoritative parenting
- secure attachment
- anxious/ambivalent attachment
- avoidant attachment
