Lifespan Development (Psychology)

Recall cards on how humans develop from conception through death. What lifespan development studies: the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial domains, the normative approach and developmental milestones, continuous versus discontinuous development, stage theories, and the nature versus nurture debate. Major theories: Freud's five psychosexual stages and fixation, Erikson's eight psychosocial stages, Piaget's cognitive stages with assimilation, accommodation, object permanence, egocentrism, and conservation, and Kohlberg's preconventional, conventional, and postconventional moral reasoning. Stages of development: the germinal, embryonic, and fetal prenatal stages, the placenta, teratogens and FASD, newborn reflexes (rooting, sucking, grasping, Moro), infant growth and brain blooming and pruning, temperament, Harlow and Bowlby on attachment, Ainsworth's Strange Situation and the attachment styles, Baumrind's parenting styles, puberty and primary and secondary sexual characteristics, menarche and spermarche, adolescence and emerging adulthood, menopause, and crystallized versus fluid intelligence. Death and dying: Kubler-Ross's five stages, hospice care, living wills, DNR orders, and health care proxies.