Third Exam - November 19, 2009

The following topics possibly will be on the exam*

Human Development
periods of development
prenatal development
teratogens
children's physical development
Cognitive development
Piaget's stages
assimilation and accomodation
object permanence
conservation
Vigotsky
Social Development
Moral development
day care controversy
Erikson's stages of development
parenting styles
biological and social influences on gender
Harlow
Ainsworth & attachment
Schanberg & Field (infant massage study)
Coopersmith (parenting and self-esteem)
Adolescence

The following topics will not be on the exam
Reflexes and motor development
Motivation & Emotion
motivation
needs and drives
incentives
arousal
Maslow
hierarchy of needs (motives)
hunger - physiological factors
hunger - external and cognitive factors
achievement motivation
human sexual behavior
intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
Emotion
James-Lange Theory
Cannon-Bard Theory
Opponent Process theory
Schacter and Singer
emotion in infants
Ekman
culture and expression of emotion
emotion and laterality
Davidson
 

The following topics will not be on the exam
Lie Detection - though there have been questions that relate the idea of lie detection to different theories of emotion
Personality
psychoanalytic perspectives
the structure of personality
id, ego, super ego
psychosexual development
defense mechanisms
Neo Freudians - Jung, Adler, Horney
the development of personality
trait theories
Allport
Cattell
Eysenck
Reciprocal determinism
Gray BAS/BIS
Social Cognitive models
cardinal and secondary traits
surface and source traits
The Big Five
personality assessment
projective tests
self-report measures
 

 


* Of course there may be something missing from this list that will be on the exam.