Pt. 6: Bringing It All Together

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Part 2: The Person—Development and Personality

Sept. 12 – Sept. 26 Sept. 12 – Sept. 26

Before going into the nuts and bolts of how the mind and brain work, this section will introduce you to the whole person – our personality-- and theories behind how we develop over the lifespan.

Chapter 11, Development over the lifespan (Sept. 12 – 17)

Chapter 12, Personality (Sept. 19 – 24)  

**Lab #2 Personality/Development (Sept. 19 & 20)

 

EXAM 1:  Wednesday, Sept. 26, over Development and Personality (60 pts.)

Click HERE for PRE-LAB #2 
(due at start of lab, Sept. 19/20)

Outline of lecture topics-- Sept. 12 - 24

	Child Development: Theories of development-- Nature/nurture Cognitive development (Piaget) Social context of development: Zone of proximal development Social development
	Adolescence: Identity crisis and development (Erickson).   (See overhead on identity)
	Cognitive and emotional development in aging.    (See overheads on cross-sectional data and on longitudinal data related to intelligence over the lifespan.)

	Perspectives on personality: Traits and biological approaches, including twin research (pp. 458-467).   (See overhead of the "Big 5" personality factors.) Learning and social-cognition approaches (pp. 467-476). Psychodynamic perspectives—Freud and beyond (pp. 443-450). Humanistic/Phenomenological perspectives (pp. 450-458)
	Consistency of personality across situations: the role of self-monitoring.
	Personality assessment (pp. 478-483): Ways to measure personality How do assessments relate to perspectives? How well can personality be measured?