Development Across the Lifespan: Social Studies Unit 6, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Development Across the Lifespan is Unit 6 of Psychology: Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Part 2) (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 77 pages.

• Critical vs. sensitive periods in prenatal/early development
• Harlow’s and Ainsworth’s attachment research and its limits
• Piaget’s stage theory and modern methodological critiques of it
• Adolescent prefrontal cortex/limbic system maturation gap and risk-taking
• Erikson’s psychosocial stages and their defining conflicts
• Erikson’s psychosocial stage theory as a heuristic vs. a fixed universal law
• Interaction of risk and resilience/protective factors across development
• Well-supported vs. speculative developmental claims, applying Unit 1 evidentiary standards
• Piaget’s four stages and their approximate age ranges

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.