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Child Development - A Thematic Approach
, Fifth Edition
Danuta Bukatko - College of the Holy Cross
Marvin W. Daehler - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Chapter 1:
Themes and Theories
- Define development and discuss the goals of developmental psychology.
- Discuss what theories are designed to do and why they are vital to science.
- List and describe the six key themes in development.
- Discuss the concept of childhood and how it has changed from Medieval and
Renaissance times to the Age of Enlightenment.
- Discuss the origins of developmental psychology by comparing and contrasting
the approaches used by Darwin, Preyer, Hall, Binet, and Baldwin.
- Describe learning and the basic premise behind learning theory.
- Discuss behavior analysis, the principles of classical and operant conditioning,
and behavior modification.
- Discuss the major contributions of social learning to learning theory.
- Describe how learning theory relates to the six key themes in development.
- Define and discuss the key concepts in Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory, including schemes, assimilation, accommodation,
and equilibration.
- Describe how Piaget's theory relates to the six key themes in development.
- Describe the information-processing approach to development.
- Describe how information processing relates to the six key themes in development.
- List and describe Freud's psychosexual stages of development and the resolution of conflict at each stage.
- List and describe Erikson's psychosocial stages of development.
- Describe how psychosocial theory relates to the six key themes in development.
- Define and describe contextual approaches to development.
- List and describe the levels of Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory.
- Describe and discuss Vygotsky's sociohistorical theory.
- Identify how ecological systems and sociohistorical theory illustrate the
transactional nature of development.
- Describe the major features of dynamic systems theory.
- Define ethology and describe how ethological theories have contributed to our understanding
of development.
- Describe how contextual approaches relate to the six key themes in development.
- List the major developmental theories and indicate where they stand on the
six key themes in development.
- Discuss the pros and cons of institutional regulations on child rearing.
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