1. How did you become the person you are?
The Developing Person
How did you become the person you are?

3. Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget
Sensorimotor (0-2 years)
Object Permanence
Preoperational (2-7 years)
Conservation of Matter
Egocentric
Concrete operations (7-12 years)
Concrete objects
Formal operations (12 to adult)
Abstract thought
“What if?” questions can be considered

4. Social Development How did you develop social bonds? Body contact
Familiarity
Self Concept
Parenting

5. Body contact Harlow monkey studies Wire mother & terrycloth mother
Preferred non-nourishing cloth mother

6. Familiarity Critical period Imprinting
Birds forming attachment during the critical period

7. Self concept
Children with a positive self concept are more sociable.

8. Do you remember? What were Piaget’s stages of development?
What did the Harlow monkey studies tell us abut body contact?
Can you give an example of imprinting?
What helps to make a child more sociable?

9. Parental attachment Toddlers with secure attachments to parents:
More sociable
More enthusiastic and persistent in tackling challenging tasks.

10. Parenting Authoritarian Permissive Authoritative
Impose rules & expect obedience
Permissive
Go along with child’s desires
Authoritative
Discusses and negotiates rules
Produce more self-confident children

11. Moral Development Kohlberg - Moral development Preconventional
Obey to gain rewards or avoid punishment
Conventional
Respect for laws and rules simply because they are there
Postconventional
Abstract reasoning-rights and ethics

12. Erickson’s eight stages of Psychosocial Development
1. Infancy = Trust vs mistrust
2. Toddler = Autonomy vs Shame & doubt
3. Preschooler = Initiative vs guilt
4. Elementary school = Competence vs inferiority
5. Adolescence = Identity vs. role confusion
6. Young adult = Intimacy vs. isolation
7. Middle adult = Generativity vs. stagnation
8. Late adulthood = Integrity vs. despair
Integrity achieved in late adulthood
One’s life has been meaningful

13. Do you remember
What types of parenting are there? What one produces the most self- confident children?
What were Kohlberg’s stages of moral development? Can you give an example of each?
What were Erikson’s eight stages of psychosocial development?

14. How does aging effect Intelligence?
Crystallized intelligence
Accumulated knowledge
E.g. State capitals
Increases with age
Fluid intelligence
Abstract reasoning and the ability solve problems decreases with age.
E.g. Learning new computer program

15. How does aging effect Alzheimer’s?
Alzheimer’s disease
Deterioration of the brain
Effects memory and thinking
Difficulty in naming familiar objects or people
Linked to genetic abnormalities
Linked to activity (Use it or lose it)

16. How does society effect what we do as we age?
The “social clock”
The feeling that events in life regularly occur at specific ages.
Graduation, marriage, children, retirement, etc.
Varies greatly from culture to culture
No biological basis for timing of events

17. Love
John Gottman:
Best predictor of marital satisfaction is the ratio of positive to negative interactions with each other.

18. Do you remember
What is the difference between crystallized and fluid intelligence?
Can you give an example?
What are the symptoms of Alzheimer’s?
How does the “social clock” effect you?
According to Gottman, what is the best predictor of marital satisfaction?