By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Discuss hospice care
Describe the five stages of grief
Define living will and DNR

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Discuss Freud’s theory of psychosexual development
Describe the major tasks of child and adult psychosocial development according to Erikson
Discuss Piaget’s view of cognitive development and apply the stages to understanding childhood cognition
Describe Kohlberg’s theory of moral development

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Describe the stages of prenatal development and recognize the importance of prenatal care
Discuss physical, cognitive, and emotional development that occurs from infancy through childhood
Discuss physical, cognitive, and emotional development that occurs during adolescence
Discuss physical, cognitive, and emotional development that occurs in adulthood

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Define and distinguish between the three domains of development: physical, cognitive and psychosocial
Discuss the normative approach to development
Understand the three major issues in development: continuity and discontinuity, one common course of development or many unique courses of development, and nature versus nurture

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Discuss the three basic functions of memory
Describe the three stages of memory storage
Describe and distinguish between procedural and declarative memory and semantic and episodic memory

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Explain the brain functions involved in memory
Recognize the roles of the hippocampus, amygdala, and cerebellum

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Compare and contrast the two types of amnesia
Discuss the unreliability of eyewitness testimony
Discuss encoding failure
Discuss the various memory errors
Compare and contrast the two types of interference

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Recognize and apply memory-enhancing strategies
Recognize and apply effective study techniques

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Discuss the findings of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart as they relate to personality and genetics
Discuss temperament and describe the three infant temperaments identified by Thomas and Chess
Discuss the evolutionary perspective on personality development

By the end of this section you should be able to:

Discuss personality differences of people from collectivist and individualist cultures
Discuss the three approaches to studying personality in a cultural context

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Describe the assumptions of the psychodynamic perspective on personality development
Define and describe the nature and function of the id, ego, and superego
Define and describe the defense mechanisms
Define and describe the psychosexual stages of personality development

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Discuss the contributions of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers to personality development

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Describe the behaviorist perspective on personality
Describe the cognitive perspective on personality
Describe the social cognitive perspective on personality

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Discuss the concept of the inferiority complex
Discuss the core differences between Erikson’s and Freud’s views on personality
Discuss Jung’s ideas of the collective unconscious and archetypes
Discuss the work of Karen Horney, including her revision of Freud’s “penis envy”