Chapter 7: Growing and Developing
Learning Objectives
- Review the stages of prenatal development
- Explain how the developing embryo and fetus may be harmed by the presence of teratogens and describe what a mother can do to reduce her risk.
- Describe the abilities that newborn infants possess and how they actively interact with their environments.
- List the stages in Piaget’s model of cognitive development and explain the concepts that are mastered in each stage.
- Critique Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and describe other theories that complement and expand on it.
- Summarize the important processes of social development that occur in infancy and childhood.
- Summarize the physical and cognitive changes that occur for boys and girls during adolescence.
- Explain how adolescents develop a sense of morality and of self-identity.
- Review the physical and cognitive changes that accompany early and middle adulthood.
- Review the physical cognitive and social changes that accompany late adulthood.
- Describe the psychological and physical outcomes of bereavement.
