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- Describe prenatal, infant, and child development.
- What are the four stages of Piaget's theory of cognitive development?
- Trace language development from infancy through age 5 or 6.
- Explain the importance of secure attachments between a caregiver and child.
- Explain how sex-role identity is formed.
- Summarize the important physical and cognitive changes that the adolescent undergoes during puberty.
- Discuss the four problems of adolescence: self-esteem, depression, suicide, and eating disorders.
- Distinguish between the longitudinal and cross-sectional methods as they relate to the study of adulthood. List the disadvantages of the methods and how the disadvantages can be overcome.
- Identify the central concerns and crises that characterize the young, middle, and late adulthood stages. Explain moral development.
- Identify Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' five sequential stages through which people pass as they react to their own impending death.
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