Developmental Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Learning Objectives:

1.  Evaluate theories of cognitive development

2.  Discuss how social and environmental variables may affect cognitive development
3.  Examine attachment in childhood and its role in the subsequent formation of relationships

4.  Discuss potential effects of deprivation or trauma in childhood on later development

5.  Define resilience
6.  Discuss strategies to build resilience
7.  Discuss the formation and development of gender roles
8.  Explain cultural variations in gender roles
9.  Describe adolescence
10. Discuss the relationship between physical change and development of identity during adolescence
11. Examine psychological research into adolescence