KIN 2504 Lecture : 14 Lecture Outlines Spring 2012

• School: LSU
• Department: Kinesiology: Professional Courses/Basic Activity Courses
• Course: KIN 2504
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Insecure-avoidant: tendency to avoid reunion with parent or caregiver. Insecure ambivalent: desire to be with a parent or caregiver but some resistance to. Parental influences: ethnic differences: african-american, hispanic, asian american, arab american. Language development: roots of language: noam chomsky, biological disposition, presumed hereditary readiness to develop and use language, language patterns are inborn. Inductive and deductive reasoning develop: now includes abstract, theoretical, and hypothetical ideas, abstract ideas, hypothetical possibilities. Adolescence and young adulthood: time period between childhood and adulthood, characterized by change, culturally defined: all recognize transitional status. Adolescence and young adulthood: puberty: biological even, not a social status, hormonal changes promote rapid physical growth and sexual maturity, social and intellectual immaturity, timing of puberty (early or late) affects boys and girls differently. Moral development: when we acquire values, beliefs, and thinking abilities that guide responsible behavior, lawrence kohlberg, presented moral dilemmas. Individuals provide choice/action and reasoning: reasoning falls into one of three levels.