DEVELOPMENT PRESENTATIONS A&D
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Developing Through the Life Span
Developmental Psychology’s Major Issues
Nature and Nurture
Continuity and Stages
Stability and Change
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
| Typical Age Range | Description of Stage | Developmental Phenomena |
| Birth to 2 yrs | Sensorimotor Experiencing world through senses and actions (empiricism) | Object permanence Stranger anxiety |
| 2 to 6 or 7 yrs | Preoperational Representing things with words and images; using intuitive rather than logical reasoning | Pretend play Egocentrism |
| 7 to 11 yrs | Concrete operational Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations | Conservation Mathematical transformations |
| 12 through adulthood | Formal operational Abstract reasoning | Abstract logic Potential for mature moral reasoning |
Table 4.1 p. 129
Attachment Styles
Secure
Insecure
Temperament – a person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity
Parenting Styles
| Low love, warmth, support, responsiveness | High love, warmth, support, responsiveness | |
| High demand, discipline, control | Authoritarian | Authoritative |
| Low demand, discipline, control | Neglecting | Permissive |
