Developmental psychology Content

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• 1Define the three attachment types (3 marks)
• 2Describe the Strange Situation procedure (5 marks)
• 3Classify an infant from described behaviour (4 marks)
• 4Explain the care giver sensitivity hypothesis (4 marks)
• 5Evaluate the care giver sensitivity hypothesis (4 marks)
• 6Describe van IJzendoorn and Kroonenberg (1988) (4 marks)
• 7Evaluate cross-cultural attachment research (5 marks)
• 8Assess the ethics of the Strange Situation (3 marks)
• 9The Strange Situation as a research method (4 marks)

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• 1Define attachment and maternal deprivation (3 marks)
• 2Explain the learning theory of attachment (4 marks)
• 3Describe O'Connor et al. (2013) (5 marks)
• 4Evaluate O'Connor et al. (2013) (4 marks)
• 5Describe Bowlby's theory of attachment (5 marks)
• 6Describe the 44 Juvenile Thieves study (5 marks)
• 7Evaluate the 44 Juvenile Thieves study (5 marks)
• 8Distinguish privation from deprivation (3 marks)
• 9Apply the two theories to a stimulus (4 marks)

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• 1Describe Piaget's four stages (5 marks)
• 2Explain how Piaget said development happens (4 marks)
• 3Identify the stage from described behaviour (4 marks)
• 4Evaluate Piaget using the challenge studies (5 marks)
• 5Explain the zone of proximal development (4 marks)
• 6Compare Piaget and Vygotsky (5 marks)
• 7Describe the stages of language development (5 marks)
• 8Explain and evaluate Skinner's account of language (5 marks)
• 9Apply the three theories to a child's utterance (4 marks)

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• 1Describe Erikson's psychosocial stages (5 marks)
• 2Explain what Erikson meant by a psychosocial crisis (4 marks)
• 3Classify identity status from described behaviour (4 marks)
• 4Apply Erikson to a described child (4 marks)
• 5Explain Vygotsky's general genetic law (4 marks)
• 6Explain perezhivanie and what it adds (3 marks)
• 7Compare Erikson and Vygotsky (5 marks)
• 8Describe mindfulness and how it reaches schools (4 marks)
• 9Evaluate the mindfulness evidence (5 marks)

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