Developmental Psychology

Unit Test #3 – Review

• Definitions:  adolescence, puberty
• When does growth spurt begin
• Difference between primary and secondary sexual characteristics
• Effects of being an early-maturing vs. late-maturing girl or boy
• Eating disorders
• Brain development in adolescence & its effects
• Piaget’s stage of formal operations, its characteristics, examples & applications
• Adolescent egocentrism, personal fable, imaginary audience
• Factors affecting school performance
• Drug and alcohol use by teens
• Erikson’s task of identity vs. identity confusion
• Marcia’s work on identity, 4 categories
• Depression and suicide in adolescence
• Parenting a teen
• Crowds & cliques, categories of kids
• Delinquency in teens, two types of delinquents
• Benefits of dating
• Teen pregnancy facts
• Exercise in adulthood
• Secondary aging
• Basics of stress and coping
• Postformal thought, characteristics, examples & applications
• Perry’s concept of dualistic thinking and alternative
• Developmental tasks of young adulthood
• What brings happiness in early adulthood
• Erikson’s task of intimacy vs. isolation, know in depth
• Passionate vs. companionate love
• Sternberg’s triangular theory of love, know in depth
• Homogamy and marriage gradient
• Adolescent views of college and career
• Reasons for marriage, stats on marriage and divorce
• Reasons for having children
• Changes in U.S. fertility over past decade
• Basics of Holland’s theory (don’t need to memorize all the areas)
• Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation in work