What is development? What are the important processes of development? What are the two perspectives on the importance of early experiences? Physical development - prenatal growth/change, the stages of prenatal development, various environmental influences on prenatal development. Physical development in childhood - change in reflexes and skills, development of the brain. Cognitive development - Piaget's theory of cognitive development. What is happening at each of the four stages of cognitive development? Is Piaget correct? Vygotsky and the Sociocultural response to Piaget's Cognitive Theory. Stage theories of development: What is Freud's Psychosexual stages of development theory? And what is Erikson's Psychosocial stages of development theory? How are they similar/different? Attachment - How do we attach to caregivers? What are the types of attachment? What does it mean for the individual if they have a particular type of attachment? (Harlow, Bowlby, Ainsworth, Hazan Shaver) What are the different types of temperament? How does our sense of morality develop (Kohlberg)? How does our sense of self, and our identity develop in adolescence? What are the types of identity statuses?