Study
(L = Lecture   T  =

Introduction (Chap. 1)
Historical Perspective (T&L)
Stereotyping Adolescence (T)
Today’s Adolescence in the US  (T&L)
Global Perspective (T&L)
The Nature of Development (T&L)
Domains of Development (T&L)
Definition of Adolescence (T&L)
    	 Santrock’s vs. Amsel’s definition (T&L)
Issues of Developmental Psych (T&L)    
	Continuity/Discontinuity (T&L)
	Endogenous/Exogenous (T&L)
	Early/Later Experience (T&L)
What Matters (T&L)
Focus on: Biology, Cognition, Social & 
Personality, Contexts
Careers in Adolescent (T)

Science of Adolescent Development (Ch. 2)
Adolescent Health (T)
	BMR (T&L)
	Causes of Death (T&L)
Theories (T&L)
Psychoanalytic Theory (T&L)
     	Freud (T&L), Erickson (T&L)
Cognitive Theories (T&L)
     	Piaget (T&L), Information Processing (T&L) 
Behavioral and Social Learn. (T&L)
    	 Skinner & Pavlov (T&L), Bandura (T&L)
Ecological/Contextual Theories
Bronfrenbrenner (T&L), Vygotsky (T&L)
Ethological/Evolutionary (L)
     	Darwin (L), Evolutionary Theory (T&L)
Eclecticism (T)
Scientific Method (T&L)
Definition of Terms (L)
Correlational/Descriptive  Research (T&L) 
	Obervation (T&L) Others (T)
Causal/Experimental Research (T&L)
Cross-sectional Research (T&L)
Longitudinal Research (T&L)
The Field of Adolescent Development (T)
Research Challenges (T&L)

Biological Foundations (Ch. 3)
Determinants of Puberty (T&L)
Natural Selection (T&L)
Evolutionary Psychology (T&L) (T&L)
Evolution and Adolescent Development (T&L)
The Genetic Process (T&L) 
DNA, Chromosomes, Genes (T&L)
Hereditary & Environment (T&L)
	P=GxE (T&L) 
Behavioral genetics and its Methods (T&L)
Scarr models (T&L)
Guide
Textbook   P = Assigned Paper) 

Shared and non-shared environments (T&L)
Epigenetic Model (T&L)
Puberty (T&L)
Endocrine System (T&L)
Menarche & Spermarche (T&L)
Factors affecting menarche, including secular trends (T&L)
Growth Spurt (T&L)
Sexual maturation (T&L)
Primary & Secondary Sex Characteristics (L)
Psychological Dimensions of Puberty (T&L)
Early and late maturation (T&L)
Pubertal Effects (T&L)
Puberty and Health Care (T) 
Brain Development (T&L)
	Neurons (T&L) and LTP (T)
	Specialized mechanisms (T&L)
	Brain Structures (T&L)
	Experience and Plasticity (T&L)

Cognitive Development (Ch. 4)
Piaget’s theory: Organization & Adaptation (T&L) 
Stages of cognitive development (T&L)
Formal Operation Thought (T&L)
     	Hypothetico-deductive thinking (T&L)
Educational Implication of Piaget (T) 
Criticisms of Piaget (T&L) 
Early and late Formal Operations (T&L) 
Cognitive Changes in Adults (T&L)
	Reflective and Relativistic thinking (T&L) 
Criticisms of Piaget (T&L)
	Social Context, Individual Differences, Cognition
Vygotsky’s Theory(T&L)
ZPD Internalization (T&)
Applying Vygotsky (T&L)
Vygotsky & Piaget (T&L) 
IP perspective (T&L) 
   	Speed & Capacity (T&L) Knowledge (T&L) 
Strategies (T&L) & Metacognition (T&L)
Attention & Memory (T&L)
Decision Making (T&L)
Critical Thinking (T&L)
Creative Thinking (T)
Metacognition & Self-Regulation (T&L)
Psychometrics/Intelligence (T)
Nature of Social Cognition (T&L)
	Personal Fable; Imaginary Audience (Elkind) (T&L)
Perspective Taking (Selman) (T&L)
Implicit Personality Theory (T)

Examination
SS testing center
No time limit in testing center
35 Multiple Choice questions (1 point each)
2 Essays Questions (15 points)
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