ACG 7000 Week 5 Developmental Psychology
- 1. Developmental Psychology Dr. Trish Hernandez
- 2. Developmental Psychology • Cognitive Development • Moral Development • Personality and Social Development • Early Development
- 3. Cognitive Development • Piaget’s adaptation – Assimilation – Accommodation • Vygotsky’s Theory
- 4. Piaget’s Stage Theory 1. Sensorimotor stage 2. Preoperational Stage 3. Concrete operational stage 4. Formal operation
- 5. Sensorimotor stage • Zero – two • Object permanence • Language marks the ending of this stage
- 6. Preoperational Stage • Two – seven • Symbolic function – language • Centration – focus on one detail – this prohibits conservation
- 7. Concrete operational stage • Seven – 11 • Conservation – changing a single dimension does not change permanent parts • De-centration – ability to look at more than one detail or attribute at a time • Reversibility – ability to back track • Lying – if you don’t know what lying is I am not going to tell you
- 8. Formal operation • 12 and older • Imaginary audience – others are as concerned as you are (zit) • Personal fable – I am unique and indestructible
- 9. Cognitive Development • Vygotsky’s Theory – Zone of Proximal Development – Scaffolding
- 10. Moral Development • Piaget’s Theory • Kohlberg’s Levels of Moral Judgment
- 11. Piaget’s Theory • Heteronomous morality – rules are absolute and unchangeable • Autonomous morality – Around age eight or nine develop the understanding the sometimes rules can be flexible and change
- 12. Kohlberg’s Levels of Moral Judgment • Pre-conventional • Conventional • Post-conventional
- 13. Pre-conventional • Obedience and Punishment Orientation – If I break the rules I will get in trouble • Individualism and Exchange – If I break the rules I might get in trouble – depends on who is giving the punishment
- 14. Conventional • Teen years • Good Interpersonal Relationships – Having “good” behaviors • Maintaining the Social Order – Concerned with society as a whole
- 15. Post-conventional • Social Contract and Individual Rights – Take a step back and think about things in a theoretical sense • Universal Principles – Protect rights – Democratic process
- 16. The End