Child Psychology Module 1
An Introduction to Child Development
• History, Theories, and Methods
• What Is Child Development?
• Coming to Terms with Terms
• Theories of Child Development
• Controversies in Child Development
• How Do We Study Child Development?
• Heredity and Conception
• The Influence of Heredity on Development
• Heredity and the Environment
• Conception
• Prenatal Development
• The Germinal Stage
• The Embryonic Stage
• The Fetal Stage
• Environmental Influences on Prenatal Development
Child Psychology Module 2
Birth, The Newborn Baby, and the Physical, Cognitive, Social and Emotional Development Stages of Infancy
• The Stages of Birth
• Methods of Childbirth
• Birth Problems
• The Postpartum Period
• Characteristics of Neonates
• Physical Growth and Development
• Development of the Brain and Nervous System
• Motor Development
• Sensory and Perceptual Development: Taking in the World
• Cognitive Development
• Information Processing
• Individual Differences in Intelligence among Infants
• Testing Infants
• Instability of Intelligence Scores Attained in Infancy
• Use of Visual Recognition Memory
• Language Development
• Attachment
• When Attachment Fails
• Day Care
• Emotional Development
• Personality Development
Child Psychology Module 3
Physical, Cognitive, Social and Emotional Development Stages of Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, and Adolescence
• Growth Patterns
• Motor Development
• Nutrition
• Health and Illness
• Sleep
• Elimination Disorders
• Jean Paget’s Preoperational Stage
• Factors in Cognitive Development
• Theory of Mind
• Development of Memory
• Language Development
• Influences on Development
• Social Behaviors
• Personality and Emotional Development
• Development of Gender Roles and Sexual Differences
• Growth Patterns
• Motor Development
• Children with Disabilities
• Piaget: The Concrete-Operational Stage
• Moral Development
• Information Processing
• Intellectual Development, Creativity, and Achievement
• Language Development and Literacy
• Theories of Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood
• The Family
• Peer Relationships
• The School
• Social and Emotional Problems
• Puberty
• Emerging Sexuality and the Risks of Sexually Transmitted Infections Health in Adolescence
• The Adolescent in Thought, in Judgment, in School, and at Work
• Development of Identity and Self-Concept
• Relationships with Parents and Peers
• Sexuality
• Juvenile Delinquency
• Suicide
• Emerging Adulthood – Bridging Adolescence and the Life Beyond
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