Human Development

Psychodynamic Development Theory

Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages

Cognitive Development

Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Stages

Schemas

Assimilation and Accommodation

Language

Phonemes & Morphemes

Syntax & Semantics

Babbling

Holophrastic & Telegraphic stage

Critical period

Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

Theory of Mind

Parenting

Imprinting

Critical period

Contact Comfort

Temperament-Inhibited vs uninhibited 

Categories of attachment categories:

-Secure attachment, avoidant attachment,

-Anxious/ambivalent attachments

Separation Anxiety

Key Ideas

Nature vs. Nurture

Prenatal Development

Motor Development

Emotional Development

Social Development

Cognitive Development

Language 

Parenting

Key People

Konrad Lorenz

Lev Vygotsky

Mary Ainsworth

Erik Erikson

Jean Piaget

Carol Gilligan

Harry Harlow

Diana Baumrind

Benjamin Whorf

Noam Chomsky

Key Terms and Concepts

Research Methods

Cross sectional research

Longitudinal research

Prenatal influences on Development

Teratogens

Reflexes (RSGMB)

Maternal Nutrition

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

Maternal Illness

Newborn Senses

5 senses & preferences

Visual cliff

Motor Development

Cephalocaudal Trend

Proximodistal Trend

Stage Theories vs Continuous 

Zone of proximal development

Parenting Styles:

Authoritarian parents

Permissive Parents

Authoritative parents