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  • Home
  • AP Review Materials
  • AP Psychology
    • Summer Materials
    • Course Materials
    • Research Project
    • Unit 1: History and Approaches
    • Unit 2: Stats and Methods
    • Unit 3: Biological Psych
    • Unit 4: Sensation and Perception
    • Unit 5: Consciousness
    • Unit 6: Learning
    • Unit 7: Cognition
    • Unit 8: Motivation, Emotion, Stress
    • Unit 9: Developmental Psych
    • Unit 10: Personality
    • Unit 11: Testing and Intelligence
    • Unit 12: Abnormal Behavior
    • Unit 13: Treatment of Abnormal Behavior
    • Unit 14: Social Psychology
  • US History
    • Unit 1: Reconstruction and Expansion

Unit 9 - Developmental Psychology

"If we were all pears, our parents might tell us, it is perfectly normal to be green before you are golden.”  -- Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Crow
Unit 9 Powerpoint
Unit 9 Kahoot
Unit Vocabulary and Calendar
Crash Course - The Growth of Knowledge
​Crash Course - Monkeys and Morality
Crash Course - Adolescence


Module 45
Module 45 Powerpoint
Objective 9-1: Explain the primary issue that developmental psychology addresses, and explain the process of conception, gestation (zygote, embryo, fetus), factors that influence fetal development (teratogens, FAS), and describe the abilities of the newborn

Module 46
Module 46 Powerpoint
Objective 9-2: Discuss motor and neural development of infants and children (maturation), including brain growth, walking stages, and infant memory

Module 47
Module 47 Powerpoint
Objective 9-3: Discuss and compare the cognitive development of children according to Piaget (schemas, assimilation, accommodation, sensorimotor stage, object permanence, preoperational stage, conservation, egocentricism, theory of mind, concrete operational stage, formal operational stage) and Vygotsky (zone of proximal development)

Module 48
Module 48 Powerpoint
Objective 9-4: Describe attachment theory, parenting styles, and the influences of day car and culture on social development

Module 49
Module 49 Powerpoint
Objective 9-5: Discuss the similarities and differences (in aggression, social power, connectedness) in genders, as well as identify the theory of gender (gender roles, gender typing, gender identity, social learning theory, transgender​)

Module 50
Module 50 Powerpoint
Objective 9-6: Describe the influence of early experience, parents, and peers on the development of a child

Module 51
Module 51 Powerpoint
Objective 9-7: Define adolescence, identify the major physical changes during this period, and describe Kohlberg's model of moral development (moral reasoning, moral intuition, preconventional morality, conventional morality, postconventional morality)

Module 52
​Module 52 Powerpoint
Objective 9-8: Discuss the maturational challenges of adolescence and the formation of identity (social identity, intimacy, emerging adulthood), explain Erikson's social development scale

Module 53
Module 53 Powerpoint
Objective 9-9: Describe adolescent sexual development and compare/contrast gender, sex, and sexual orentation, paying attention to concepts such as X/Y chromosomes, testosterone, primary and secondary sex characteristics, the sexualization of children, and influences on sexual orientation

Module 54
​Module 54 Powerpoint
Objective 9-10: Predict the physical and cognitive changes that emerge as people age, paying close attention to the changes in strength, stamina, and memory (recall, recognition), the social clock, Erickson's final stages of development, and how we study these changes (longitudinal studies, cross-sectional studies)
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