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Developmental Psychology- REVIEW SHEET- Concepts to emphasize in reviewing for exam: 

• What is the blank slate perspective?
• What is plasticity?
• Discontinuity and continuity perspectives
• What is cohort effect? What is a critical period?
• The various purposes of the scientific method (i.e., describe, predict, explain)? which research methods are best suited to each goal?
• Characteristics of an experiment (i.e., experimental/control groups, random assignment, causal hypotheses).
• Study designs (i.e., cross-sectional, longitudinal, meta-analysis AND CASE STUDY ETC.)
• Correlation (be able to recognize and understand positive/negative correlations and how to interpret them)
• Independent and dependent variables (be able to identify each in a study design)
• Various guidelines required for informed consent for adults... and for children. 
• Key concepts of psychoanalytic theories (i.e., internal drives, emotions; role of id, ego, and superego)
• Erikson's Psychosocial theory (i.e. internal drives, societal demands)
• Types of learning (e.g. observational)
• Ethological theory
• Concepts related to evolution. 
• Basic points Vygotsky's theory.
• Studies of twins (evidence about psychological and physical traits)
• Key concepts re periods of prenatal development (i.e., fetal, embryonic, germinal) 
• recessive and dominant genes/Disorders of recessive and dominant genes (when do symptoms occur/ when are they diagnosed?)
• What are teratogens?
• Adverse affects of alcohol on development.
• What is the apgar scale? - what does it measure?
• Maturation_> conceptual view in developmental psychology 
• John Locke's view of human nature
• Types of gene/environment correlations (e.g., active genotype/environment)
• Development is "contextual" ( associated concepts and applications)
• normative age graded events, normative history graded events, non-normative 
• What is social policy?
• Nature vs. Nurture debate
• Genotype vs. phenotype
•  Piaget's model of developmental change
• Skinner's model of developmental change
• Themes and controversies noted in our first unit (e.g. nature /nurture etc)  
• Information-processing  
• What is a person's exosystem? Mesosytem, etc.
• Findings from the "Harlow's Monkeys" study
• Fundamental concepts from evolutionary theory applied to ethology and evolutionary psychology.