In this assignment, you are tasked with choosing five (5) concepts from the course to describe your own development. If you are not comfortable writing about yourself, you are welcome to write about someone you know. At the end of your essay, you will apply what you have learned about human development to make two recommendations to improve the physical, socio-emotional, and/or cognitive development of a loved one
This is a list of concepts you can use for your course paper.

Biological/ Physical Developmental Concepts:
1. Apgar scale (Ch. 2)
2. gene x environment correlations (Ch. 2)
3. epigenetic view (Ch. 2)
4. teratogen (Ch. 2)
5. phenotype (Ch. 2)
6. genotype (Ch. 2)
7. niche-picking (Ch. 2)
8. cellular clock theory (Ch. 3)
9. hormonal stress theory (Ch. 3)
10. myelination (Ch. 3)
11. neuroconstructivist view (Ch. 3)
12. puberty (Ch. 3)
13. dementia (Ch. 4)
14. sensation and perception (Ch. 5)

Cognitive Developmental Concepts:
1. adolescent egocentrism (Ch. 6)
2. hypothetical-deductive reasoning (Ch. 6)
3. equilibration (Ch. 6)
4. social constructivist view (Ch. 6)
5. executive function (Ch. 7)
6. metacognition (Ch. 7)
7. metamemory (Ch. 7)
8. theory of mind (Ch. 7)
9. crystalized intelligence (Ch. 8)
10. fluid intelligence (Ch. 8)
11. infinite generativity (Ch. 9)
12. metalinguistic awareness (Ch. 9)
13. whole-language approach (Ch. 9)
14. child-directed speech (Ch. 9)

Socioemotional/ Psychosocial Developmental Concepts:
1. attachment (Ch. 10)
2. developmental cascade model (Ch. 10)
3. socioemotional selectivity theory (Ch. 10)
4. temperament (Ch. 10)
5. generativity versus stagnation (Ch. 11)
6. identity versus identity confusion (Ch. 11)
7. gender versus sex (Ch. 12)
8. empathy versus sympathy (Ch. 13)
9. moral development (Ch. 13)
10. reciprocal socialization (Ch. 14)
11. empty nest syndrome (Ch. 14)
12. parenting style (Ch. 14)
13. child maltreatment (Ch. 14)
14. play therapy (Ch. 15)