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•Kohlberg’s moral ladder
Social Developement (Forming an Identity): 80 percent of American teens said yes to “I would choose my life the way it is right now.” But others never quite seem to find themselves: About 20 percent agreed with “I wish I were somebody else,” and 28 percent with “I often wonder why I exist” Reflecting on their existence, 75 percent of American collegians say they “discuss religion/spirituality” with friends, “pray”, and agree that “we are all spiritual beings” and “search for meaning/purpose in life”
During early to mid-teen Years, self esteem falls and for girls, depression scores often increase

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Abstract reasoning

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Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping arithmetical operations

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Representing things with words and images; use intuitive rather than logical reasoning

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The awareness that objects continue to exist when not perceived

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1. Sensorimotor (Birth to 2)
2. Preoperational (2 to about 7)
3. Concrete operational (7 to 11)
4. Formal operational (12 through adulthood)

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In sensorimotor stage babies take in the world - through looking, hearing, touching, mouthing and grasping. Children younger than 6 months do not have object permanence, I.e., objects that are out of sight are also out of mind.

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The process of assimilation involves incorporation new experiences into our current understanding (schema). The process of adjusting a schema and modifying it is called an accommodation.

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Schemas are mental molds into which we pour our experiences

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Earliest age of conscious memory is around 3 1/2 Years. A 5 year old has a sense of self and increased long-term memory, thus orginization if memory is different from 3-4 years.

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Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively un influenced by experience

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The developing brain cortex actually overproduces neurons, with the number peaking at 28 weeks and then subsiding to a stable 23 billion or so at birth.

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On the day you were born, you had most of the brain cells you would ever have. However, at birth your Nervous System was immature: After birth, the neural networks that eventually enabled you to walk, talk, and remember had a wild growth spurt

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From ages 3 to 6, the brains neural network is sprouting most rapidly in the frontal lobes, which enable rational planning.

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The association areas of the cortex - those linked with thinking, memory, and language - are the last brain areas to develop. As they do, mental