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Study Guide – Mid-Term Examination
Psychology 220
The following study guide is to assist you in your preparation for the exam. It should not be considered a substitute for studying
nor should it be considered all inclusive. It is a distributed in order to stimulate thought and study in the content areas considered
important to this course and subject matter.
Understand Vygotsky’s and Piaget’s theories on human development.
-Scaffolding
-ZPD
-Stages of cognitive development
-Schemas/ Schemes
-accommodation and assimilation
Know the difference between genotype and phenotype
Understand relationship between dominant and recessive genes
Know the three stages of labor
Reflexes – what are they and what are the 2 types
Understand the different developments in language
Understand the purpose and components of the WISC – IV (what does it measure, ages it can be used on…).
Definition of Developmental Psychology
Understand the Nature v. Nurture debate
Puberty v. Adolescence – how are they defined?
Understand both causal relationships as well as correlational ones, including correlational coefficients
Understand the different parts of an experiment.
Brain lateralization- what is it and what is considered to be a primary contributor to it
Conception process – how it occurs, including mono v. dizygotic twins, gender determination
Chromosomes – def., make up and importance
Age of viability. – what does it mean and what is it.
Understand teratogens and what they are.
Most common causes for infant mortality – US and world -wide
Critical/ Sensitive Period– what is it
Understand different research designs and how used
Psychology as a Science of Exclusion – what does that mean?
Theories – how are they beneficial and how can they be problematic?
Micronutrient and macronutrient nutrition.
Know Erikson’s first and last stages of his Psychosocial theory.
Metamemory v. Metacognition
Understand some of the health related issues physiologically that can be experienced as we age (i.e. osteoporosis,
Alzheimer’s, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease etc…)
Know the periods of prenatal development
Peak ages for physical functioning and issues of intellectual functioning (i.e. crystalized and fluid)
Understand the nature of intelligence and how it fluctuates during our life.
Know brain issues (lateralization, synaptic density, dendritic density etc..)
Understand sleep patterns as we age.
Genotype v. phenotype
Creativity – what is it and when does it seem to peak?
Processing speed – how does it change as we age, how do we accommodate for changes as we age etc…
Understand the different types of attention discussed in class and which ages and genders seem to have an upper hand
with them.
Know what happens to activity levels as we move from childhood into adolescence.
What is the Apgar scale and how is it used?
How to maintain physical and neurological health as we age.
Patterns of development (i.e. cephalocaudal v. proximodistal).
Review each of the two tests given during the first half of the course.