Modules 47 – Development (found in Unit 9) Name______

  1. Explain how a child might assimilate and accommodate a schema for a car when presented with a truck.
  2. Complete the table below for Piaget’s stages of cognitive development:

Stage / Approximate age / Name and description of tasks to be mastered / Key words
  1. Give evidence that Piaget might have underestimated young children’s cognitive abilities.
  2. Discuss ways in which Lev Vygotsky’s views on the cognitive development of children differ from Jean Piaget’s.
  3. List the characteristics associated with ASD – autism spectrum disorder.
  4. Module 48 - In what way did Margaret Harlow and Harry Harlow’s experiment with wire and cloth monkeys overturn the previously held belief that attachment was based on satisfaction of nourishment needs? What were the implications of Harlow’s findings?
  5. How did the work of Konrad Lorenz add to the explanation of how attachment bonds are formed in children? Use key terms in your response.
  6. How did Mary Ainsworth’s work with the strange situation design help answer the question of attachment difficulties?
  7. List an example from the text or from your life of how temperament is persistent.
  8. A teenager wants to extend her curfew and stay out later with her friends. Using the information on Diana Baumrind’s research on parenting styles, create an imagined dialog exchange between the teen and…
  9. Her authoritarian parent.
  10. Her permissive parent.
  11. Her authoritative parent.
  12. What does the research indicate is the correlation between parenting styles and future personality traits of children?
  13. Module 51 – List the benefits and drawbacks of early maturation for boys.
  14. List the benefits and drawbacks of early maturation for girls.
  15. Describe the decisions an individual might make when considering whether or not to cheat on an exam if they are in the:
  16. Preconventional stage
  17. Conventional stage
  18. Postconventional stage
  19. Module 52 –Complete the chart below based on Erik Erikson’s work by filling in the issue for each stage and a real-life example that illustrates each stage.

Stage / Issue / Real-life example that illustrates stage
Infancy (to 1 yr)
Toddlerhood (1 -3)
Preschool (3-6)
Elementary school (6-puberty
Adolescence (teen to 20s)
Young adulthood (20s – 40s)
Middle adulthood (40s-60s)
Late adulthood (60s and up)
  1. Module 54 – identify physical changes that occur in men and in women in middle adulthood.
  2. Identify the physical changes in mean and women in later life.
  3. Define the social clock and explain how the “ticking” changes during adulthood.