Chapter 10

Due Friday 12/19

Chapter 10 Questions:

Section 1:

1. What does “maturation” mean, as a psychological term? What else causes development?
2. In what ways is an infant’s development both continuous and in stages?

Section 2:

3. Ask your parents when you started walking. How does that compare to the average age?
4. What reflexes do babies have that help them survive?
5. How does a baby’s vision develop in the first year? Other senses?

Section 3:

6. What are some advantages to having a secure attachment with parents?
7. What is authoritative parenting? Why does this seem to be the most effective style? Is this what you experienced?
8. Discuss the importance of fatherhood (see page 238).
9. What is considered child abuse and neglect? What are some of its causes?
10. What factors seem to help a child’s self-esteem?

Section 4:

11. What do the terms “assimilation” and “accommodation” mean?
12. Summarize the four stages of cognitive development in Paiget’s theory.
13. Summarize the six stages of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development.
14. Why has Kohlberg been criticized for gender bias?

Unit 4 test review

Unit 4 Test: Weds 12/10

Unit Four Review – Chapters 8-9
Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Thinking
Cognitive Psychology
Symbols
Concepts
Prototypes
Problem Solving
Algorithms
Heuristics
Trial and Error
Difference Reduction
Means-End Analysis
Working Backward
Analogies
Insight
Incubation
Mental Set
Functional Fixedness
Creativity and Problem Solving
Convergent v. Divergent Thinking
ABCDE’s of Problem Solving
Reasoning
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Confirmation Bias
Decision Making/Judgment
Pluses and Minuses
Representativeness Heuristic
Availability Heuristic
Anchoring Heuristic
Framing Effect
Overconfidence
Language
Phonemes
Morphemes
Syntax
Semantics
Stages of Development
Crying, Cooing, Babbling
First Words
Development of grammar
Language Acquisition Device
Environmental Influence
Bilingualism
Nine-Dot Problem
Twenty Questions
Chimp Sign Language
Intelligence
Achievement
Spearman’s “general intelligence”
Thurstone’s Mental Abilities
Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Sternberg’s Triad
Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence
Stanford Binet Scales
IQ
Wechsler Scales
Reliability
Validity
Test Motivation
Cultural Bias
Retardation
Giftedness
Creativity
Idiot Savant
Genetic Influence
Environmental Influence
Parenting
Preschool
Adults and Intelligence
Speaking American

Chapter 9

Journal HW due: Thurs 12/4

Chapter 9 Journal Questions

Section 1:

1. Discuss the difference between intelligence and achievement. Which is more important?
2. Do you believe that “general intelligence” exists – do people differ in their basic ability to think?
3. Which of Thurston’s, Gardner’s, and Sternberg’s theories is most convincing to you? Why?
4. Discuss Goleman’s theory of emotional intelligence – does this make sense to you as a type of intelligence?

Section 2:

5. What does IQ mean? Is this a fair way to measure intelligence?
6. What advantages does the Wechsler test have over the Stanford-Binet test?
7. What does it mean to say that a test is reliable? that it is valid?
8. What are some problems with intelligence tests?

Section 3:

9. What are most retarded people capable of?
10. What allows someone to be creative? What helps you to be creative?

Section 4:

11. How much influence do genes have on intelligence?
12. How can parents foster a child’s intellectual development?
13. How can we maintain our intellectual abilities as adults?