Developmental Psychology Unit Test #2 Review

Chapter 6:

• separation anxiety and stranger anxiety
• social referencing
• beginnings of self-awareness
• Ainsworth strange situation, types of attachment
• reciprocal socialization
• Erikson’s stage & characteristics
• meaning of “temperament,” major traits involved according to Thomas & Chess
• “goodness of fit” concept

Chapter 7:

• threats to health in preschool years
• size of brain in preschool years
• lateralization of brain, increase in sophisticated cognitive processing
• Piaget’s preoperational stage – characteristics, major terms
• “symbolic function”
• Vygotsky’s major ideas

Chapter 8:

• Erikson’s stage & characteristics
• Self-concept & self-esteem
• gender roles, constancy, identity, & schema
• types of play
• parenting styles – characteristics, results in children

Chapter 9:

• causes of inadequate fitness
• Am. Acad. Ped. Recommendations re sports
• Gross & fine motor skills – examples
• % kids with psychological disorder, common ones
• Characteristics of learning disabilities
• Characteristics of ADHD
• Characteristics of concrete operational thought, know all terms
• Cultural assimilation vs. pluralistic society model

Chapter 10:

• Erikson’s stage & characteristics
• Self-concept, social comparison
• Kohlberg’s stages
• Gilligan’s stages
• High and low status children
• Number of kids staying home because of bullying