Potential Socrative Questions Ch 9

Ch. 9: Lifespan Development

1. What are the "3 domains" we study in Lifespan Development by using the normative approach?

2. What is meant by "temperament"? How would a child's temperament influence parenting?

3.  What are some of the effects of "nature"? What about "nurture"? How do these interact with one another? Which group of people do psychologists follow for decades to discover the influence of nature on nurture and vice versa?

4. Know who Erik Erikson was, and his stage theory of psychosocial development. Be able to recognize each of the 8 "stages of man".

5. Know who Jean Piaget was, and his theory of cognitive development. What's the difference between a child in the "sensorimotor" vs "pre-operational" stage of development? What about the "concrete" vs. "formal" operational stages? 

6. What is meant by "accommodation"? "Assimilation" and "Schema"? "Object Permanence'?

7.   What is the difference between "monzygotic" and "dizygotic" twins? 

8. Stages of PRENATAL development: Zygote/Germinal stage(timing and what systems change); Embryo (timing and related systems) and the Fetal stage's timing and related systems.

9. What is a "teratogen"? Be able to provide at least 3 different examples.

10. What did Harry Harlow and Mary Ainsworth do to expand our understanding of "attachment"? What is the "strange situation" test?