CCCCD: Associate Professor Wade Baggette
Fall 2007 Psyc 2301 TTh 2:30 to 3:45 pm
I greatly encourage my students to explore these links to enrich their learning experience. The links below may help clarify material covered in the book, mentioned in class, or both.
Chapter Four Information and Links
The following topics from Chapter Three are important and exam-worthy:
- Conception & Stages of Development in Utero; Piaget’s Theory; DDST; Adolescence and Sexual Development (Read); Kohlberg; Erikson
- Know about the following stages: zygote, embryo, and fetus
- Know the three parenting styles:
- Know and understand Kohlberg's Stages of Morality as well as critcisms of Kohlberg
- Know Erikson's Eight Stages and what they mean: Infancy (Trust), Toddlerhood (Autonomy), Preschooler (Initiative), Elementary School (Competence), Adolesence (Identity), Young Adulthood (Intimacy), Middle Adulthood (Generativity), Late Adulthood (Integrity)
- Alzheimer's Disease: Part of a spectrum called “organicity” (But organicity also includes FAS) Loss of brain cells and deterioration of neurons that produce ACh MRI’s can predict; (p. 181); bioethics issues? Preventive measures: use it or lose it (think of Marion Diamond’s work)
- Cognitive Development and Aging: Meaningless info v. Prospective memory: how do older adults perform? Cross-Sectional v. Longitudinal Studies; Who was Alvin Toffler? (Compare to Ed T Hall; Starbucks?) (Problems with Cross-Sectional) Crystallized v. Fluid Intelligence (p. 184)
- Social Clock: Please read this material on your own; expect a test question.
- Death and Dying: Know about Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and her stages of grief
- All material in the chapter is available for testing, but these topics are emphasized
Chapter Four Links
- Torch Infections (aka Torch Syndrome)
- DDST (Denver Development Screening Test)
- The Tipping Point (Eye Tracking and Sesame Street)
- The Tipping Point (Summary)
- Uncle Albert Books (re: concrete operational v. formal operational)
- Sprint Lawsuit (Age Discrimination)
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross