Transcript A Study in Human Development

A Study in Human Development
Exploring Human Development
Developmental Psychology–
Study of how people grow and
change throughout a life span.
Nature or Nurture?
• Maturation (nature) or surroundings
(nurture)?
• Psychologists recognize both
• Genetic tendency and environment
• Study identical twins
(Discussion and Video)
Video A1
Journal Entry
Four Entries – One for each
STATION
• Divide into 4 groups.
• TITLE ENTRY WITH:
DEVELOPMENT STATION # (will
have four entries )
• 15-20 minutes in each STATION.
• WRITE YOUR OWN ANSWER(S)
IN YOUR JOURNAL.
Beginnings: Prenatal
Development
Stages
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Zygote
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Embryo
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Fetal stage (study
behavior)
Prenatal Risks
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Exposure to drugs, toxins, illness
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Smoking
“Crack babies“
– Premature, underweight, tense, fussyMore
likely to be learning disabled
Malformed organs
• Genetic diseases
• DVD A (#2 Skin disorder video) (# 6 William Syndrome video)
Newborn
• Birth Order (POP theory) = (video E-1)
Difficult to study
• Vision and Senses
–20/300 eyesight
• Sharp smell and taste
• Prefer mother in tests
• Reflexes and Motor Skills
• Grasping (Fine motor)
• Turning over, crawling,
standing, walking (Gross
motor – large muscles)
Infancy and
Childhood: Cognitive
Development
Video:
B8 DVD
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Stages
• Sensorimotor (0-2) Object
permanence.Representational thought.
• Preoperational (2-7) Accelerated use of
symbols and language
• Concrete operations (6 or 7 – 11)
Understanding of conservation, identity,
serial ordering.
• Formal operations (12 –adulthood)
Abstract reasoning. Compare and
classify ideas.
POSTNATAL PERSONALITY
TYPES
• Easy
• Difficult
• Slow to warm up
• Mixed
Language
• Cooing to communicating
(Oprah – Secret Language video-b2)
• Use correct language with a child
• Telegraphic
• Critical Period? (wild boy/Jeannie
video)
BRAIN
video – c5
Birth
% OF ADULT
BRAIN
WEIGHT
25%
6 months
50%
2 ½ years old
75%
5-6 years old
90%
AGE
Social Development
ATTACHMENT
• Contact comfort – Harry Harlow
(monkey) video c4
• Separation anxiety – 7-9 months.
• Unconditional love
• Conditional love
(# b1 Attachment video)
MORAL REASONING
• Kohlberg’s Stages of
development.
–Three levels and six
stages.
–Video – F1
Adolescence
• Early Adolescence – ages 11 –
14.
• Middle Adolescence – ages 15
–18.
• Late Adolescence – ages 18 –
21.
Maturation
• Physical: Females begin
adolescent growth spurt earlier
than Males.
–(8-12 inches in growth)
• Sexual development
• Male and Female differences
– Video B6 (10 min.)
Social Development
Parent – adolescent conflict
• Independence conflict.
• Adolescence still hold to their
parent’s religious and
political values.
• Peers?
• Language (E5 video) – 5 min.
Relationships with peers
• Cliques (5 – 10 people spend a lot of
time together)
• Crowds (share attitudes and group
identity) spend little time together.
• Influence dress, hairstyles, speech
patterns, and music.
• Meet - group dating - pair dating commitment.
Self – concept- Journal Entry
1. Describe your weekend in three
words.
Video d9 (3 min)
2. WHO AM I? Describe you
video -d7 (4 min) and b11 (first few min.)
3. If you really knew me, you
would know…. (give 3)
Watch Video (Oprah) b10 (30 min.)
4. 3 MORE of #3. If you…..
Adolescence Panel DiscussionFriday
• Host/Hostess
• Panel
• Be YOU!
• Do NOT have to answer All
questions.
• Audience cannot respond unless
host or hostess invites them.
Adulthood
• Young Adulthood (20 –40)
Reassessment, settling down,
marriage/intimate relationships, and
children.
• Middle Adulthood (40 –65) Midlife
crisis, Empty Nest Syndrome.
• Late Adulthood (65 +) Many physical
changes. A-7 (Memory)
ADULTHOOD JOURNAL
ENTRY
• Would you get a shot that would
stop the physical aging process?
WHY OR WHY NOT.
• What do you see yourself doing
at the age of 75? (cannot be
dead)
PANEL DISCUSSION
• WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU
WERE THE PARENT??
Elderly
Video A3 and C13
• Why do we age?
• Many physical changes (vary
greatly).
• Successful aging: challenges,
positive outlook, and accept
changes.
• Financially prepared.
Journal Entry - Death
• Define DEATH – must
uphold in a court room.
Death
• Stages of Accepting Death (Stages?)
1. Denial and Isolation / Numbness
2. Anger / Protest
3. Bargaining/ Yearning
4. Depression and Disorganization
5. Acceptance/ Recovery (Video D6)
(Music Video – b10)
Journal Entry –
Death continued
• Using the stages of death
in your notes, describe a
time in which death/loss
occurred and identify
what your behavior was
with regards to the
stages.