1. The document covers several topics in human development including developmental theories, gender roles and identity, research designs, prenatal development, Erikson's stages of development, parenting styles, Kohlberg's theory of moral development, attachment theory, and Piaget's stages of cognitive development. 2. Key concepts discussed include nature versus nurture, continuity versus discontinuity, stability versus change, biological, evolutionary, psychoanalytic, behavioral, and cognitive perspectives on gender roles, longitudinal and cross-sectional research designs, fetal alcohol syndrome and teratogens, Kubler-Ross's five stages of death and dying, Erikson's psychosocial stages of development, authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and neglectful parenting styles,

1. Notes Summary – Human Development
Lesson One:
Developmental Theory Big Idea Supporting Facts
Nature vs. Nurture
Continuity vs.
Discontinuity
Stability vs. Change
What might a person that believes in stage theory of development have trouble explaining?
Why are longitudinal studies helpful in explaining the theory of stability vs. change?
Lesson Two:
Gender Terminologies:
Key Term: Definition:
Gender
Gender Roles Stereotypes
Gender Identity
Androgny

2. Five Perspectives of Gender Roles:
Perspective: Explanation:
Biological
Evolutionary
Psychoanalytic
Behavioral
Cognitive
Which of the above theories of Gender Roles do you agree with most? Why?
Lesson Three:
Developmental Research Designs:
Research Design: Description: Key Terms:
Longitudinal Studies
Cross-Sectional Studies Cohort -
Cohort-Sequential Studies Cohort Effect -
Retrospective Studies

3. Questions on “A Class Divided” – If you missed it search PBS Frontline – A Class Divided and
watch the first two segments.
1. What are you overall reactions to this study?
2. From a developmental perspective, do you think that older/younger children/adults would
act differently?
3. From an ethical standpoint, could this study have been done the same way today?
Lesson Four:
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and what do Teratogens have to do with it?
Prenatal Development Zygote Fetus
Neonates Habituation Reflexes

4. Lesson Five:
Using the handout provided, describe the five stages of death and dying as researched by
Kubler-Ross.
Death and Dying Stage: Supporting Information:
Denial:
Anger:
Bargaining:
Depression:
Acceptance:
What are your thoughts on the death and dying stages? Would you have organized them any
different?
Puberty Primary Sex Characteristics Secondary Sex Characteristics

5. Lesson Six: Erik Erikson’s Stages of Development:
Stage Big Idea Age Range Strength
Trust vs. Mistrust
Autonomy vs. Shame
and Doubt
Initiative vs. Guilt
Industry vs. Inferiority
Identity vs. Role
Confusion
Intimacy vs. Isolation
Generativity vs.
Stagnation
Integrity vs. Despair
Lesson Seven: Parenting Styles

6. Authoritarian Authoritative
Permissive Uninvolved/Neglecting

7. Parenting Styles Concept Check and Discussion
Concept Check – Part 1:
Directions (1-4) – Match the descriptions with the appropriate parenting styles.
_______1. Parents allow children to do as they please most of the time.
_______2. Parents discipline children for bad behavior but always give the reason why.
_______3. Parents pay little to no attention to what their children do or say.
_______4. Parents expect obedience and enforce rules with little explanation why.
A. Authoritative
B. Permissive
C. Neglecting
D. Authoritarian
Concept Check – Part 2:
For the following four questions, describe how a child may act while growing up in a home with
just the listed parenting style.
1. Authoritative -
2. Permissive -
3. Neglecting -
4. Authoritarian –
Discussion Questions: Agree or Disagree and WHY
1. Parents should become more permissive as their children get older.
Agree Disagree
• Why:
2. Parents should use different parenting styles with boys and with girls.
Agree Disagree
• Why:
3. I agree with the parenting style(s) that my parents have used to raise me.
Agree Disagree
• Why:

8. Lesson Eight: Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development
Stage Level Big Idea Supporting Information
Obedience and
Punishment
Individualism
and Exchange
Interpersonal
Relationships
Maintaining
Social Order
Social Contracts
and Individual
Rights
Universal
Principles

9. Lesson Nine: Attachment
Define Attachment –
Secure Base Safe Haven
What did Harlow think about attachment?
Summarize Mary Ainsworth’s “Strange Situation” experiment:
What is the difference between:
• Secure attachment –
• Insecure attachment –
Summarize Konrad Lorenz’s theory of imprinting:

10. Lee Vygotsky Terminologies:
Lesson Ten: Piaget
What’s the difference between:
• Fluid intelligence –
• Crystallized Intelligence –
Lesson Ten: Piaget’s Stages of Development:
Developmental Stage Age Description
Sensorimotor
Pre-operational
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational
Internalization: Zone of Proximal Development:

11. Piaget’s BIG Concepts:
BIG Concept: Description: Example:
Object Permanence
Conservation
Centration
Irreversibility
Egocentrism
Animism
Abstract Logic