Unit Terms

  • Unit Terms:

    **As you read the text, focus on these terms, with the question in mind for each: How does this concept/idea affect my behavior or mental processes in everyday life.

     

    1. Developmental Psychology (Module 11 Terms begin here)
    2. Maturation
    3. Prenatal
    4. Teratogens
    5. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development & The Stages
    6. Cognition
    7. Schemas
    8. Assimilation
    9. Accommodation
    10. Attachment & its Effects 
    11. Harlow’s Attachment Study
    12. Parenting Patterns (Authoritarian, Permissive, Authoritative)
    13. Adolescence (Module 12 Terms begin here)
    14. Primary Sex Characteristics
    15. Secondary Sex Characteristics
    16. Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development & The Levels
    17. Erikson’s Theory of Social Development & The Stages
    18. Identity
    19. Intimacy
    20. Social Clock & Examples (In Class Notes, but located within Module 13)
    21. Emerging Adulthood (In Class Notes, but located within Module 13)
    22. Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development & The Stages (Optional, Outside of Unit Modules: located on pgs. 496-502 in text)