Lecture Outlines And Overheads

The material for each lecture is outlined along with the corresponding textbook page number by clicking on OUTLINE.  Download each lecture outline and bring it to class to keep track of the lectures and organize your notes.  Clicking on POWERPOINTS will deliver the web-based versions of the PowerPoint slides used in lecture.  These are available on WSU's ereserve service from the library for review or downloadingDownloading and reviewing the lecture outlines or slides is not a substitute for attending lectures.  I guarantee that you cannot do well in the course without attending!  

The material is organized around the exams and are broken down in approximately 5 week blocks. The calendar specifies dates for each lecture and dates of available of the quizzes, exams, and projects.

Basic Issues
   Lecture 1:    Introduction:  Are adolescents like adults?  (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                        Questions

   Lecture 2:    Issues and theories of adolescent development (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                        Quiz 1

   Lecture 3:    Research methods (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                        Definition of Research Terms)
                        Assignment 1
                        Kurdek & Krile (1982)

   Lecture 4:    Puberty, Health and Biological Foundations (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                         Puberty in the News
                         Utah's role in Genetics Research in the News
                        Quiz 2

   Lecture 5:    Cognitive Development:  Becoming an Abstract Thinker (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                         Piaget obituary
                        Quiz 3

                       Study Guide and Essays for Exam 1

Contexts of Adolescent Development
  
Lecture 6:    Ecological theory  and the BPS Model (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                        Bronfenbrenner (1994)   Suggested by not require reading
                        Bronfenbrenner's Obituary

   Lecture 7:    Family as context (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                         Adolescent-Parent relationships in the news
                        Quiz 4

   Lecture 8:    Peers as contexts (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                        Quiz 5

   Lecture 9:  Schools as contexts (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                        Keller (1999)
  
   Lecture 10:  Culture and adolescence (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                         Quiz 6

                        Study Guide and Essay for Exam 2

Adolescent Issues 

 Lecture 11:   Development  of self and identity (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                         Quiz 7

                         Markstrom-Adams et al. (1994)
                         (Notes on Reading)

  Lecture 12:   Development of sex and gender (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                         Quiz 8

  Lecture 13   Development of morality, values & religion (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                         Quiz 9


  Lecture 14:   Achievement, Work and Career orientation in adolescents (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)

  Lecture 15:   Adolescent
problems (OUTLINE  POWERPOINT)
                         Quiz 10


                        Study Guide and Essay for Exam 3

       

References

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1994). Ecological models of human development. International Encyclopedia of Education, 3, 1643-1647.

Keller, B.  (1999).  A time and a place for teenagers.  Education Week, 18(24), 27-31.

Kurdek, L.A., & Krile, D. (1982). A developmental analysis of the relation between peer acceptance and both interpersonal understanding and perceived social competence. Child Development, 53, 1485-1491.

Markstrom-Adams, C., Hofstra, G., & Dougher, K. (1994). The ego-virtue of fidelity: A case for the study of religion and identity formation in adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 23, 453-469.