- ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS CAN BE FOUND IN VIDEO AND TEXT INSIDE FRONT AND BACK COVER OF TEXT WILL TELL YOU WHAT CHAPTERS CORRELATE WITH WHICH VIDEOS).
Objectives 5
After viewing the television program and completing the assigned readings, you should be able to:
1. State the primary interest of developmental psychologists.
2. Describe the various ways that development is documented, including longitudinal, cross sectional and sequential.
3. Describe cognitive development across the lifespan.
4. Identify Piaget’s stages of cognitive development.
5. Describe some contemporary perspectives on early cognitive development.
6. Describe physical development across the lifespan.
7. Describe how habituation studies can be used on infants to determine what they can understand.
8. Describe several ways that we know infants are not born as blank slates, but instead, come equipped with temperaments, preferences, and biases.
9. Describe several ways that the environment is known to affect skills and behaviors.
Objectives 6
After viewing the television program and completing the assigned readings, you should be able to:
1. Describe the structure of language, including syntax, grammar, and semantics.
2. Define a child’s “language making capacity.”
3. Provide evidence of the universality of language acquisition and the way it progresses.
4. Explain Chomsky’s hypothesis that humans are born with an innate biological capacity for language acquisition.
5. Explain how “motherese” (or “parentese”) helps babies learn to communicate.
6. Describe the use of intonation by both young children and adults in their communication with each other.
