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Chapter and Topic of this Review Guide: Chp.5-Development-Teens to Death
Vocab Term
Definition of Term
Maturation
Biological growth processes that
Example
enable orderly changes in
behavior
Cognition
All the mental activities
Able to remember everything we
associated with thinking,
learn because of our cognition
knowing, remembering, and
communicating.
Concrete Operational Stage
From 6-11; children gain the
~Conservation
mental operations that enable
them to think logically about
concrete events
Formal Operational Stage
From 12-?; people begin to think
~Mathematical transformations
~Seriation
~Abstract logic
logically about abstract concepts
~Scientific reasoning
~Potential for mature moral
reasoning
Adolescence stage
Identity vs. confusion
Sense of complexity of life;
merging of sensory, logical, and
aesthetic perception
Young adulthood
Intimacy vs. isolation
Sense of the complexity of
relationships; value of
tenderness and loving freely
Adulthood
Generativity vs. stagnation
Caritas, caring for others, and
agape, empathy, and concern
Old age
Integrity vs. despair
Existential identity; a sense of
integrity strong enough to
withstand physical disintegration
Conventional morality
Early adolescence; morality
Not breaking the rules at home
focus on caring for others and on
or school
upholding laws and social rules
Postconventional morality
Actions are judged “right”
because they flow from people’s
rights or from self-defined
Cross-sectional study
People of different ages are
Students from the whole school
compared with one another
district is compared to one
another
Longitudinal study
Same people are restudied and
Group of students are studied
retested over a long period of
every year
time
Crystallized intelligence
Our accumulated knowledge and
verbal skills
Name of Important Person
What this person is known for
Impact on Psychology
Jean Piaget
Four stages of cognitive
Able to explain cognitive
development
development
Eight stages of life
Theory of physical, emotional,
Erik Erikson
and psychological human
development
Lawrence Kohlberg
Development of moral reasoning
Able to explain the differences
between right and wrong