Personality Growth and
Development
3 Credits
Hours
Instructors:
Carol Mansour, M.A., LPC,
LMFT
E-mail: carolmansour@verizon.net
Phone:
214.418.1597
Caroline Z. Marcos
E-mail:carolinezakaria@gmail.com
Phone:
661-305-2494
Mona Mekhail, M.D.
Email:
monamekhail@yahoo.com
Phone:
412-716-7413
Course
Description:
This is a survey course, which covers
the major theories of personality and cognitive, social and moral
development which includes; Freud, Erikson, Piaget, Kohlberg, Mahler
and Ainsworth. The full
life span from embryo to geriatric age will be covered. Special
considerations will be made in regards to theories of attachment and
parenting. Issues of
normal development and pathological development will also be
covered.
Course
Objectives:
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Thoroughly understand the
different theories of development and how they relate and/or
differ
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Develop a clinical eye for healthy
personality development as well as the possible risk factors for
unhealthy development.
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Provide an overview of attachment
theory and how it relates to development
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Understand the relationship of
God’s grace, nature and nurture as it relates to
development.
I.
General Concept of
Development
a.
Biological/Genetic
b.
Environmental
c.
Grace of God
II.
Life Cycle Stages
a.
Theories of Personality
1.
Freud
2.
Erik Erikson
III.
Cognitive Development (Jean
Piaget)
IV.
Attachment
a.
John Bolby
b.
Mary Ainsworth
c.
Margaret Mahler
V.
Moral Development (Kholberg)
Course
Requirements:
Each student is responsible for
reading all the material required throughout the course and handing
assignments in on time. Students will be administered four quizzes
and a final overview exam; each consisting of multiple choice and
short answer questions. Tests (4) are worth 60 percent of course
grade; the final exam is worth 40 percent of course
grade.
Required
Text:
Human Development Ninth Edition by Grace J Craig and Donald
Baucum; Prentice
Hall, 2002 ISBN:
0-13-033441-3
Suggested/Reference Text:
Social and Personality
Development by David R. Shaffer; Wadsworth, ISBN:
0-534-36819-0
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Grading
Scale:
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Test
Schedule |
Percentage of Course
Grade |
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A+ = 96-100
A- = 90-95
B = 80-89
Below 80 will get certificate of
attendance
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Test 1
Test 2
Test 3
Test 4
Final Exam |
15 Percentage Points
15 Percentage Points
15 Percentage Points
15 Percentage Points
40 Percentage Points
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Distance
Learning Lesson Schedule
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Week |
Lesson |
Text Book
Assignment |
Test
/Assignment
Schedule |
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Week
1 |
Introduction to Human
Development |
Craig; pp.5-16
Ch. 1 until Table 1-4& pp.34-35 Ch.1 Revisited and pp
38-40, Chapter Reviews to Content Check questions Shaffer: pp
3-13 The Universal Parenting Machine to Box 1.2 |
Q; p.10first set of questions after
Table 1-2: “Key issues int the study of Human
Development&17&40 “conent check questions in
Craig |
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Week 2 |
Life
Cycle Stages |
Craig: pp.41-48
Psychodynamic Approaches to Conent Check questions after Table
2-2& 54-58 Cognitive Approaches to content check questions
after Information Processing
Theory
Shaffer: pp.
36-43 Ch.2 until The Behaviorist Viewpoint |
Q: p. 48 Content Check
questions after table 2-2&58
content check questions after Information Processing
Theory |
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Week
3 |
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Quiz 1 |
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Week 4 |
Cognitive
Development |
Craig:pp. 182-189
Cognitive Development until until content check questions
after Perceptual organization and categories &
pp250-261Cognitive Development until content check questions
after Event Scripts and Sequential
Understanding
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Q: 189
content check questions after Perceptual organization and
categories &258
content check questions after Event Scripts and Sequential
Understanding |
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Week 5 |
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Quiz
2 |
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Week 6 |
Cognitive
Development |
Craig pp 323-331from Ch. 9
Cognitive Development until content check questions after
table titled “conditions that promote literacy”& pp397-402
Cognitive Changes in Adolescence to Ch.11
Revisited
Shaffer pp
50-65 Piaget Cognitive Development viewpoint until the end
which is the summary |
Q: 331
content check questions after table titled “conditions that
promote literacy
Q402 content questions before Ch. 11
revisited |
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Week 7 |
Attachment |
Craig pp. 150 The beginning of
attachment,pp. 204-219 Ch. 6 until Content questions
after Attachment and Infants with Special Needs.
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Q: 211 Content check after
Stranger Anxiety, Separation and Attachment ,
219,
Content questions after Attachment and Infants with Special
Needs. |
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Week 8 |
Attachment |
Craig:
224-237 Personality
Development in the Second Year of Life until and including
Ch.6 Revisited
Shaffer pp. 112-133 Temperament and
Development until summary at the end of Ch. 4 |
Q: 231 Content Check after
table “Selected Factor in Personality Developmeend During
Infancy” |
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Quiz 3 |
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Week 9 |
Moral
Development |
Craig; pp; 356-360Piaget
on Moral Reasoning and Judgment until Content Check after
Eisenberg’s View
Shaffer
pp326-335What is Morality until and including summary of Ch.
10 |
Q: 360
Content Check after Eisenberg’s
View
Shaffer
pp326- |
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Week 10 |
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Quiz 4 |
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Week 11 |
Review |
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Week
12 |
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Final
exam |
