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Developmental Psychology

  • Birth

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    Infancy

    a) Rooting Reflex Disappears
    b) Grasping Reflex Disappears
    c) Babinski Reflex Disappears
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    Childhood

    b) Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development
    Infancy - Trust vs. Mistrust
    Toddler - Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt
    Pre-School - Initiative vs. Guilt
    Elem. School - Competence vs. Inferiority
    Adolescence - Identity vs. Role Confusion
    Early Adulthood - Intimacy vs. Isolation
    Middle Age - Generativity vs. Stagnation
    Late Adulthood - Integrity vs. Despair
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    Childhood

    c) Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
    Preconventional - Self-Focused Morality
    i. Avoid Punishment
    ii. Obtain Rewards
    Conventional - Other Focused Morality
    i. Please Others/Avoid Disapproval
    ii. Respect Authority
    Postconventional - Higher Focus Morality
    i. Rights of Others
    ii. Personal Principles
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    Childhood

    a) Piagets Stages of Cognitive Development
    Sensorimotor - explores world through direct sensory and motor contact.
    Preoperational - egocentric; uses symbols to represent objects; does not think logically
    Concrete Operational - can think logically and understand conservation
    Formal Operational - can think abstractly and think in hypothetical terms
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    Childhood

    d) Freud's Stages of Psychosexual Development
    Oral Stage focused on oral pleasures
    Anal Stage focus of pleasure in this stage is on eliminating and retaining feces
    Phallic Stage pleasure zone switches to the genitals
    Latency Stage sexual urges remain repressed and children interact and play mostly with same sex peers
    Genital Genital Stage begins at the start of puberty when sexual urges are once again awakened
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    Adolescence

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    Early Adulthood

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    Middle Adulthood

    Adult Male Crisis approx. 40-45
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    Late Adulthood

    Empty Nest Syndrome approx. 60's
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    Old Age

    Onset of Alzheimer's approx. age 65
  • Stages of Death and Dying

    Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance