AP Psych Development Webquest
Development… what can go wrong?
1. What is a teratogen?
2. Name some psychoactive drugs:
3. What do psychoactive drugs do in terms of development?
4. What is FAS? What are the specific effects of FAS on development?
PIAGET and COGNITIVE Development
Go to the website below to complete the PsychSim for “Cognitive Development”.
There are 37 slides. Be sure to read all of them. Questions come up in order, but there is not a question for every slide.
1. Be sure you know that Piaget shaped the study of ______development.
2. According to Piaget, how do we “make sense of the world”?
3. Why do our schemas have to change?
4. We redefine our schemas in two ways. List them both and define each in six words or less.
5. Check Your Understanding. Doggie? Horsie? Both? Explain.
6. Fill in the chart below and answer the question for each of Piaget’s four stages.
Stage One / Stage Two / Stage Three / Stage FourName of Stage.
When? What age(s)?
Explain it.
Example. What should they know? Be doing?
Key words associated with this stage (in blue)?
List and define them.
Limitations at this age (if any)
7. You will be asked to apply your understanding of Piaget to three children. Complete each of the three tasks as an activity on the PsychSim. When you are finished complete the following
Name of the task
What it was testing (what concept)
How it relates to Piaget’s stages of development.
FREUD and PSYCHOSEXUAL development
Go to this website to answer the questions below. You have to click on each stage to get the information.
1. Freud shaped the study of ______development.
2. Make a chart like the one below and fill it in for each of Freud’s five stages. *Remember… this is a college course… Freud had some “over the top” ideas, but have a mature mind when analyzing them
Stage One / Stage Two / Stage Three / Stage Four / Stage FiveName of stage
Age?
Physical focus
Psychological theme
Adult Character if fixated
ERIKSON and SOCIAL development
1. Erikson shaped the study of ______development.
2. How are “tasks” central to Erikson’s idea of development?
3. For each of Erikson’s 8 Stages, explain them in six words or less.
KOHLBERG and MORAL development
1. Kohlberg shaped the study of ______development.
2. Kohlberg’s “moral ladder” has 3 levels containing two stages each.
Create the“Moral Ladder” using the graphic to the right. Be sure to include and label:
The three levels.
The six stage names.
A brief example that explains what this stage of development “looks” like, what are the characteristics. (you may need to create your own ladder on notebook paper to be able to fit this)