Unit 9: Development - ​AP Psychology Syllabus and Calendar

Unit 9 Vocab Sheet

Essential Task 9-1
Developmental Psychology Research Methods PowerPoint

Essential Task: Detail how psychologists study development including longitudinal studies, cross-sectional studies, and autobiographical studies.

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Essential Task 9-2
Prenatal Development PowerPoint

Essential Task: Explain the process of conception, gestation (zygote, embryo, and fetus), factors that influence fetal development (teratogens and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome), and the maturation of motor skills.

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Essential Task 9-3
Piaget PowerPoint
Piaget Application

Essential Task: . Explain the maturation of cognitive abilities according to Piaget with specific attention to object permanence in the sensorimotor stage, magical thinking, theory of mind, and the lack of conservation and reversible thinking in the preoperational stage, overcoming the limitations of the preoperational stage in the concrete operational stage, and the development of abstract reasoning in the formal operational stage.

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Essential Task 9-4
Vygotsky PowerPoint

Essential Task: Explain the maturation of cognitive abilities according to Vygotsky with specific attention to zones of proximal development and compare this viewpoint to Piaget.

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Essential Task 9-5
Erikson PowerPoint
​Erikson Application 

Essential Task: Explain Erikson's social development paying specific attention to the crisis in each stage and the virtue gained from each stage.

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Essential Task 9-6
Social Development PowerPoint

​Attachment Disorders

Essential Task: Describe the influence of temperament, attachment, and parenting styles (permissive indulgence, permissive indifferent, authoritarian, authoritative)

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Essential Task 9-7
Moral Development - Kohlberg and Gilligan PowerPoint

Kohlberg Application

Essential Task: Compare and contrast Kohlberg and Gilligan’s models of moral development.

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Essential Task 9-8
Adolescence PowerPoint

Essential Task: Discuss maturational challenges in adolescence and the formation of identity (foreclosure, diffusion and moratorium).

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Essential Task 9-9

Essential Task: Predict the physical and cognitive changes that emerge as people age.

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Essential Task 9-10
Gender Development
and Sexual Orienation

You must read/watch the required articles from the following list and pick one additional article/video from each category.  Read and annotate your articles, and complete a Socratic Seminar sheet for each category.  Be ready to engage in a two-day long discussion of our essential questions:
- How do humans develop a sexual orientation and gender identity in today's society? 
- What impact does this process have on the self and our society?

Glossary of Terms
Spectrum of Terms

Sexual Orientation:  I

• Required: APA Pamphlet on Sexual Orientation
• Factors that influence sexual orientation
• ​Biological versus nonbiological older brothers and men’s sexual orientation
• Sexual orientation and its basis in brain structure​ and function
• Male homosexuality and maternal immune responsivity
  to the Y-linked protein NLGN4Y
• APA Statement Against Conversion Therapy

Gender Identify

• Required: APA Pamphlet on Gender Identity
• What are gender roles and identity?
• Biological Theories of Gender
• Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic
• Effects of gendered behavior on testosterone in women and men
• APA Guidelines for Men
• Parenting Effects on Gender Identity

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Toxic Media

• Required: Kilbourne and Katz clips
• Watching Gender 
• ​Age of First Exposure to Pornography Shapes Men's Attitude of Women
• The Impact of Pornography on Children & Youth
• Sexual Media Content and Effects
• TELEVISION, DISORDERED EATING, AND YOUNG WOMEN IN FIJI by Anne Becker

Essential Questions: - How do humans develop a sexual orientation and gender identity in today's society?  - What impact does this process have on the self and our society?

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