Human Life Span Development Study Guide PDF

**[Study Guide for Human Life Span Development's Final Exam]** Definition of Human Life Span Development Nature/nurture debate Research: Theory/hypothesis Parts of the APA paper (intro/methods/results/discussion/abstract) Types of research and what they study: case study/test/observation/surve...

**[Study Guide for Human Life Span Development's Final Exam]** Definition of Human Life Span Development Nature/nurture debate Research: Theory/hypothesis Parts of the APA paper (intro/methods/results/discussion/abstract) Types of research and what they study: case study/test/observation/survey/correlation (correlation coefficient)/longitudinal/cross section/ cross sequential/ experiment Parts of an experiment: IV/DV/population/sample/random selection/control group/experiment group/random assignment/ double blind study/blind study Ethical guidelines of research/informed consent Prenatal: Chromosomes in egg/sperm; in normal cells / mitosis and meiosis/sex chromosomes for males and females/gamete/blastocyst/ dominant genes/recessive genes Stages of prenatal development: germinal/embryonic/fetal/age of viability/organogenesis/sexual differentiation Teratogen Cognition: Piaget; disequilibrium/schema/assimilation/accommodation/ sensorimotor (and 6 sub stages)/object permanence/ preoperational/egocentrism/animism/centration/concrete operations/conservation/formal thought/abstract thought Post formal thought Vygotsky: scaffolding/ Zone of Proximal Development Metacognition: awareness of one's own thoughts and thought patterns Physical: Physical milestones (head up 2 months, sit up 6, crawl 8, stand 12) cephalocaudal/proximodistal Vision at birth 20/240; color vision developed at 4 months; intermodal integration Gross motor skills (head up 2 months); fine motor skills (pincer grasp 8 months) Menarche/semenarche Sex/gender Frontal lobe grows 0-5 (increased attention, goal direction, self-control); limbic system grows adolescence (increased risk taking, emotionality) Language: Noam Chomsky's LAD Order of language development and what they are (cry/coo/babble/1 word (1 year)/holophrase/telegraphic speech Attachment: Stages of attachment and what leads to each: secure/resistant-ambivalent/avoidant Separation anxiety/stranger anxiety Adult attachment styles and the child attachment style that leads to it: secure/dismissing/preoccupied Morality: Kholberg's three stages (preconventional/ conventional/post conventional) and the 6 substages Gilligan's morality theory (care perspective/justice perspective) Piaget's theory (Premoral/ heteronomous/autonomous) Freud's morality theory: Phallic stage, superego develops and forms ego ideal, when you don't measure up to ego ideal feel bad (conscience) Conduct disorder/juvenile delinquency Personality: Big 5 personality traits (OCEAN) Erikson's 8 stages of psychosocial development (trust v mistrust; autonomy v shame/doubt; initiative v guilt; industry v inferiority; identity v role confusion; intimacy v isolation; generativity v stagnation; integrity v despair) Freud's personality theory: three parts of personality (id/ego/superego); oral fixation/anal fixation/anal retentive/phallic (gender: Oedipal complex; Electra complex)/latency/genital Marcia's identity statuses (diffusion, moratorium, foreclosure, identity achievement) Temperament: easy, difficult, slow to warm Intelligence: Ranges of intelligence (profound ID, severe ID, moderate ID, mild ID, below average, average, above average, gifted/genius)