[ED PSYCH 321] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (29 pages long!)

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: ED PSYCH 321
• Professor: Julie Johnson

Document Summary

Changes around 10: cognitive transition, social transition. Constructed based on society: context is also emphasized by hill. It depends on who"s raising them, who do they spend time with. Is there a progression or is it stepping stones that people have to reach: does development happen gradually or suddenly. Stage theorists believe 1 course for all. Inborn: predestined to go down certain path, genetics guide us. Emphasis: hormonal and physical changes of puberty as driving forces. G. stanley hall: theory of recapitulation. A life mirrors the evolution of society. Dual systems theory: 2 competing brain processes. Way brain processes rewards, punishments, and social, and emotional info vs. self-control. Jean piaget: children as little explorers, 4 stages of development. Adolescent is period when person is capable of critical thinking and abstract thought: cognitive-development theory. Genital (middle childhood-adolescences: case studies not so much scientific research, very theoretical.