Study Guide
(L = Lecture T = Textbook P = Assigned Paper)
Introduction (Chap. 1) Shared and non-shared environments (T&L)
Historical Perspective (T&L) Epigenetic Model (T&L)
Stereotyping Adolescence (T) Puberty (T&L)
Today’s Adolescence in the US (T&L) Endocrine System (T&L)
Global Perspective (T&L) Menarche & Spermarche (T&L)
The Nature of Development (T&L) Factors affecting menarche, including secular trends (T&L)
Domains of Development (T&L) Growth Spurt (T&L)
Definition of Adolescence (T&L) Sexual maturation (T&L)
Santrock’s vs. Amsel’s definition (T&L) Primary & Secondary Sex Characteristics (L)
Issues of Developmental Psych (T&L) Psychological Dimensions of Puberty (T&L)
Continuity/Discontinuity (T&L) Early and late maturation (T&L)
Endogenous/Exogenous (T&L) Pubertal Effects (T&L)
Early/Later Experience (T&L) Puberty and Health Care (T)
What Matters (T&L) Brain Development (T&L)
Focus on: Biology, Cognition, Social & Neurons (T&L) and LTP (T)
Personality, Contexts Specialized mechanisms (T&L)
Careers in Adolescent (T) Brain Structures (T&L)
Experience and Plasticity (T&L)
Science of Adolescent Development (Ch. 2)
Adolescent Health (T) Cognitive Development (Ch. 4)
BMR (T&L) Piaget’s theory: Organization & Adaptation (T&L)
Causes of Death (T&L) Stages of cognitive development (T&L)
Theories (T&L) Formal Operation Thought (T&L)
Psychoanalytic Theory (T&L) Hypothetico-deductive thinking (T&L)
Freud (T&L), Erickson (T&L) Educational Implication of Piaget (T)
Cognitive Theories (T&L) Criticisms of Piaget (T&L)
Piaget (T&L), Information Processing (T&L) Early and late Formal Operations (T&L)
Behavioral and Social Learn. (T&L) Cognitive Changes in Adults (T&L)
Skinner & Pavlov (T&L), Bandura (T&L) Reflective and Relativistic thinking (T&L)
Ecological/Contextual Theories Criticisms of Piaget (T&L)
Bronfrenbrenner (T&L), Vygotsky (T&L) Social Context, Individual Differences, Cognition
Ethological/Evolutionary (L) Vygotsky’s Theory(T&L)
Darwin (L), Evolutionary Theory (T&L) ZPD Internalization (T&)
Eclecticism (T) Applying Vygotsky (T&L)
Scientific Method (T&L) Vygotsky & Piaget (T&L)
Definition of Terms (L) IP perspective (T&L)
Correlational/Descriptive Research (T&L) Speed & Capacity (T&L) Knowledge (T&L)
Obervation (T&L) Others (T) Strategies (T&L) & Metacognition (T&L)
Causal/Experimental Research (T&L) Attention & Memory (T&L)
Cross-sectional Research (T&L) Decision Making (T&L)
Longitudinal Research (T&L) Critical Thinking (T&L)
The Field of Adolescent Development (T) Creative Thinking (T)
Research Challenges (T&L) Metacognition & Self-Regulation (T&L)
Psychometrics/Intelligence (T)
Biological Foundations (Ch. 3) Nature of Social Cognition (T&L)
Determinants of Puberty (T&L) Personal Fable; Imaginary Audience (Elkind) (T&L)
Natural Selection (T&L) Perspective Taking (Selman) (T&L)
Evolutionary Psychology (T&L) (T&L) Implicit Personality Theory (T)
Evolution and Adolescent Development (T&L)
The Genetic Process (T&L) Examination
DNA, Chromosomes, Genes (T&L) SS testing center
Hereditary & Environment (T&L) No time limit in testing center
P=GxE (T&L) 35 Multiple Choice questions (1 point each)
Behavioral genetics and its Methods (T&L) 2 Essays Questions (15 points)
Scarr models (T&L) GOOD LUCK