Unit 1. General issues in the study of life-span development. Does the cultural environment influence lifespan development more than our genes?
Are peers more important than parents during the process of development?
Is Chinese parenting culturally distinct?
Unit 2. Prenatal development and infancy. Is drinking alcohol while pregnant an unnecessary risk to prenatal development?
Is breastfeeding inevitably best for healthy development?
Are there good reasons to allow infants to consume electronic media, such as television?
Unit 3. Early childhood and middle childhood. Do innate gender differences influence how children learn?
Should bipolar disorder be diagnosed and treated in children?
Are violent video games necessarily bad for children?
Unit 4. Adolescence. Should contemporary adolescents be engaged in more structured activities?
Does the adolescent brain make risk taking inevitable?
Unit 5. Youth and emerging adulthood. Is there such a thing as "emerging adulthood"?
Is there a "narcissism epidemic" among contemporary young adults?
Are today's college students interested in engaging with religion and spirituality?
Unit 6. Middle adulthood. Do adults need to place more value on marriage?
Is parenthood a detriment to well-being?
Unit 7. Later adulthood. Is more civic engagement among older adults necessarily better?
Is "mild cognitive impairment" too similar to normal aging to be a relevant concept?
Should we try to "cure" old age?
