PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sex Organ, Pubic Hair, Puberty

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1030H
• Professor: Barbara Bond

Document Summary

Overview: major theories of childhood development, piaget, erikson, attachment, moral development. Jean piaget stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor (0-2, preoperational (2-7, concrete operational (7-11, formal operations (11+) Identified eight psychosocial stages of development: infant, toddler (1-3, preschool child (3-6, preadolescent (6-12, adolescent (early teens, young adult (late teens and early 20s, middle adult (late 20s to retirement, older adult (after retirement) Attachment: the process of forming close emotional bonds of affection that develop between infant and care givers through three distinct levels of moral reasoning (each stage divided in two separate phases) Kohlberg"s stages of moral reasoning: building on piaget"s ideas, kohlberg suggested that human beings move, we tend to confuse the terms (cid:498)adolescence(cid:499) and (cid:498)puberty(cid:499). Includes the first evidence of sexual maturation (primary sexual characteristics) and terminates at the first appearance of pubic hair. Post-pubescent stage: growth spurt decreases, completion of primary sexual characteristics. It is an interaction between the hypothalamus, pituitary glad, and the reproductive organs.