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AP Psychology


Unit 3: Developmental Psychology

7 - 9 % of the AP Exam


Myers Textbook Chapters/Pages:

Modules 7, 8, 9 & 10


Unit Goals: Check the box when you have mastered the goal. This will help you when you study for the unit assessment, AP exam, and complete the left hand side letter to yourself.                                             

                                                                                                                                         

  • Discuss the interaction of nature and nurture (including cultural variations) in the determination of behavior .                                                                                                                                                               

  • Explain the process of conception and gestation, including factors that influence successful fetal development (nutrition, illness, substance abuse) .


  • Discuss maturation of motor skills .


  • Describe the influence of temperament and other social factors on attachment and appropriate socialization .


  • Explain the maturation of cognitive abilities (Piaget’s stages, information processing) .


  • Compare and contrast models of moral development (Kohlberg, Gilligan) .


  • Discuss maturational challenges in adolescence, including related family conflicts .


  • Explain how parenting styles influence development.                                                                                                                                                                     

  • Characterize the development of decisions related to intimacy as people mature.


  • Predict the physical and cognitive changes that emerge as people age, including steps that can be taken to maximize function .


  • Describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development .


  • Identify key contributors in developmental psychology (Mary Ainsworth, Albert Bandura, Diana Baumrind, Erik Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, Harry Harlow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Konrad Lorenz, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky) .








Unit Overview:                                                                                                                                 

Developmental psychology deals with the behavior of organisms from conception to death and examines the processes that contribute to behavioral change throughout the life span . The major areas of emphasis in the course are prenatal development, motor development, socialization, cognitive development, adolescence, and adulthood


Unit Vocabulary:


  1. Developmental psychology

  2. zygote

  3. embryo

  4. fetus

  5. teratogens

  6. Fetal alcohol syndrome

  7. Rooting reflex

  8. habituation

  9. maturation

  10. Assimilation

  11. accommodation

  12. cognition

  13. Sensorimotor stage

  14. Object permanence

  15. Preoperational stage

  16. conservation

  17. Egocentrism

  18. Theory of mind

  19. Concrete operational stage

  20. Formal operational stage

  21. Stranger anxiety

  22. attachment

  23. Critical period

  24. imprinting

  25. Basic trust

  26. Self concept

  27. adolescence

  28. puberty

  29. Primary sex characteristics

  30. Secondary sex characteristics

  31. Menarche

  32. Identity

  33. Intimacy

  34. Menopause

  35. Alzheimer’s disease

  36. Cross sectional study

  37. Longitudinal study

  38. Crystallized intelligence

  39. Fluid intelligence

  40. Social clock



People:

  • Jean Piaget

  • Erik Erikson

  • Harry Harlow

  • Lawrence Kohlberg

  • Konrad Lorenz

  • Lev Vygotsky

  • Mary Ainsworth

  • Diana Baumrind

  • Carol Gillian



Studies:

  • Gibson, E.J: The “Visual Cliff”

  • Harlow, H.F: The nature of love

  • Piaget, j. The development of object concept

  • Kohlberg, L. The development of children’s orientations toward a moral order







Unit 3 Resources: Developmental Psychology


Meyers Textbook         Interactive Notebook TOC               R.Hock 40 study book & Analysis Sheet           


Unit 3 Vocabulary Template                           Unit 3 Cornell HW Packet


Unit 3 Interactive Notebook right hand side notes

                       

UNIT 3 DATES:                      

  • TEST:

  • PROJECT:

  • CC’s:  

  • VOCAB DUE: 

  • VOCAB QUIZ:

  • CORNELL HW PACKET:


UNIT 2 TEST INFO/Dates: 


Unit 3 Agenda


Day

Date

Topics Covered/Class Procedure

Tonight’s Homework

Help/Comments

1


  1. Unit 3 Dates (above)


  1. Egg Check!


  1. Assign Eggstagram


  1. Intro to development - Prenatal development/Maturation of motor skills  ppt


  1. Time for project or Work on Reading HW








  1. Work on Unit 3 Cornell Reading & Vocab

  2. Finish Notebook Left hand sides from today


2


  1. Egg Check!


  1. Finish Notes from yesterday!


     3. Parenting Styles article and questions


5. 40’s studies Analysis - Harlow’s Monkeys.

LEFT- read 40s study and answer these questions (print or write)  It is reading 17 “discovering love” (page 126 to 133) It’s not long!


RIGHT - In the middle section next to picture, write a summary of Harlow’s experiment & findings.

  1. Work on Unit 3 Cornell Reading & Vocab


  1. Finish Notebook Left hand sides from today


3


  1. CC- Prenatal development/Maturation of motor skills AND Parenting Styles - don’t answer last question on this one


  1.  Attachment Notes -

Strange Situation- Description

Mary Ainsworth - Video

Konrad Lorenz - Video

Today’s powerpoint

Go Over  Harlow’s Monkeys


  1. Cognitive development - Piaget


  1. Left - Piaget Practice

  1. Time for project










  1. Work on Unit 3 Cornell Reading & Vocab (due tom)



Crash Course Growth of Knowledge


Khan academy piaget



Attachment



Harlow



Additional explanation

4


  1. Egg Check!


  1. Finish Piaget Notes if needed


  1. Assign Left hand side (on TOC)


  1. I still have no voice - So Student work day! Do something productive!!!

    1. Project (due Wed. now)

    2. cornell notes (due mon)

    3. Notebook lefts (due wed)

    4. Study! (Quiz mon)


*Unit 3 Vocab Check

  1. Work on Unit 3 Cornell Reading


  1. Study for Vocab Quiz Monday


5


  1. Last Egg Check!


  1. Vocab Quiz! (check HW)


  1. Review any topic from last week that you have questions about.


  1. Review - Group FRQ :)


  1. Social Development - Erikson - Notes


  1. Left hand side- Movie Example


  1. Time for HW















Crash Course Adolescence


Crash Course Monkeys and Morality

6


  1. Erikson & Piaget CC


  1. Adolescence Notes & Assign HW


  1. Moral Dilemmas discussion


  1. Moral Development - Kohlberg vs. Gillian


  1. Assign Left hand side


  1. Finish Project

  2. Study for Test

Multiple choice questions 1


Multiple Choice practice 2


More practice

7




  1. Pass out Advantage Time-Sheet


  1. Collect Project


  1. Any Questions?


  1. TEST - Unit 3, 50% of unit 3 assessment grade


  1. Page 29 Notes: Adulthood & Aging, grieving  (not on test)


  1. Pick up Unit 4 HW packet




  1. Work on Unit 4 HW and vocabulary. We will go over unit dates tomorrow

Video James Marcia


Giraffe in quicksand


Fallacies of grief



Click here to go to Unit 4: Sensation & Perception organizer & agenda

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