1. Theories of Development
Lap 5

2. Psychology Goals Behavioral Theories- Describe behavior
Stress and Abnormal- Explain and Predict behavior
Learning Theories- Control behavior
Psychodynamic Theories- Describe and Explain behavior
Development Theories- Describe and Explain behavior

3. Development describes the growth of humans throughout the lifespan.
Developmental theories provide a set of guiding principles and concepts that describe and explain human development.

4. Newborns

5. Innate Capacities of Newborns
Physical skills:
Eat, Poop, Sleep!
Sensory Motor Skills:
Grasping/ Rooting/ Sucking reflexes
Cognitive Skills:
See/ Hear/ Smell
Respond to environment/ recognize face+ voices

6. Infants

7. Infants Sensory- Motor: Language Development: (ex from homework:
Babble and monosyllabic sounds

9. Toddler

10. Toddlers Language Development: ~2 years- words
~2-3+ years- telegraphic (2+ word sentences)

11. Childhood

12. Preschool/ Grade School
Video:

13. Cognitive Psych
Behavior is the result of internal thought processes- learning, thinking, language, and reasoning
It also looks at how these thought processes influence how we understand and interact with the world.
Response to environment- processing info/ stimuli
Methods: Use the laboratory experiment to study behavior
Observational studies and tests to reveal different abilities

14. Jean Piaget 1st systematic study of cognitive development
Child development
Children think differently than adults; not just less competent than adults
Steps and sequence of children's intellectual development
Always follows this sequence; stages cannot be skipped
Each stage is marked by new intellectual abilities and a more complex understanding of the world

15. Components to Piaget’s Theory of Dev’t
A. Schemas
Building blocks of knowledge, mental representations of the world… not tabula rasa!
B. Process of Adaptation
Equilibrium, Association, and Accommodation
C. Stages
Sensorimotor (0-2)
Preoperational (3-6)
Concrete operational (6-12)
Formal operational (11+)

16. The Sensorimotor Stage
Knowledge through senses and motor abilites
Reflexes and repetition
Object permanence
Possible uses
Imitation
Circular reactions provide newborns with a special means of adapting their first schemes.
It involves stumbling onto a new experience caused by the baby’s motor activity.
The reaction is circular because the infant tries to repeat the event again and again.
As a result, the accidental response becomes strengthened into a new scheme.

17.
Piaget’s Stages of Development, 1 and 2
Piaget: How a child thinks
Piaget- Stage 1 Object Permanence

18. Pre-operational Stage
Knowledge represented by language and symbols
Not yet reason or measure
Egocentricism
View from their own perspective

19. Concrete Operational Stage
Reason logically
Conservation
Considers other points of view
Piaget’s Stages of Development: conversion tasks
Piaget’s stages- homemade

20. Formal Operational Stage
Can think deeply and abstractly
Can hypothesize about different outcomes

21. Newborns