FAD 3220 ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTION PREMIUM REVIEW
CONTENT
●● cohort
Answer: a group of people born at around the same time in the same
place; example of history-graded influence
●● age-graded influences
Answer: biological and environmental influences that are similar for
individuals in a particular age group, regardless of when or where they
are raised
●● sociocultural-graded influences
Answer: the social and cultural factors present at a particular time for a
particular individual, depending on such variables as ethnicity, social
class, and subcultural membership
●● topical areas of lifespan development
Answer: Physical development, cognitive development, personality
development, and social development.
●● physical development
,Answer: development involving the body's physical makeup, including
the brain, nervous system, muscles, and senses, and the need for food,
drink, and sleep
●● cognitive development
Answer: study of how children acquire the ability to learn, think, reason,
communicate, and remember
●● personality development
Answer: stability and change in the characteristics that differentiate one
person from another over the life span
●● social development
Answer: the way in which individuals' interactions with others and their
social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of
life
●● non-normative life events
Answer: unusual occurrences that have a major impact on an individual's
life
●● continuous change
Answer: gradual development in which achievements at one level build
on those of previous levels
,●● discontinuous change
Answer: development that occurs in distinct steps or stages, with each
stage bringing about behavior that is assumed to be qualitatively
different from behavior at earlier stages
●● critical period
Answer: a specific time in development when certain skills or abilities
are most easily learned
●● sensitive period
Answer: a limited phase in an individual animal's development in which
they're particularly susceptible to certain kinds of stimuli in the
environment
●● theoretical perspectives on lifespan development
Answer: Psychodynamic, Behavioral & Cognitive Perspectives
●● psychodynamic perspective
Answer: how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
●● behavioral perspective
Answer: the approach that suggests that observable, measurable
behavior should be the focus of study
, ●● cognitive perspective
Answer: modern perspective that focuses on memory, intelligence,
perception, problem solving, and learning
●● expand theories within psychodynamic perspective
Answer: - psychoanalytic (Freud): suggests that unconscious forces act
to determine personality and behavior; ex: desires
- psychosocial theory (Erikson): suggests our behavioral development
occurs in 8 fixed, similar stages
●● expand theories within behavioral perspective
Answer: social-cognitive learning theory: emphasizes learning by
observing the behavior or another person, or model
●● expand theories within cognitive perspective
Answer: Theory of Cognitive Development (Piaget): suggests that
growth in children's understanding of the world could be explained by
assimilation [people understanding new experience in terms of current
stage of cognitive development] and accommodation [changes in
existing ways of thinking in response to encounters with new stimuli or
events]
COMPLETE SOLUTION PREMIUM REVIEW
CONTENT
●● cohort
Answer: a group of people born at around the same time in the same
place; example of history-graded influence
●● age-graded influences
Answer: biological and environmental influences that are similar for
individuals in a particular age group, regardless of when or where they
are raised
●● sociocultural-graded influences
Answer: the social and cultural factors present at a particular time for a
particular individual, depending on such variables as ethnicity, social
class, and subcultural membership
●● topical areas of lifespan development
Answer: Physical development, cognitive development, personality
development, and social development.
●● physical development
,Answer: development involving the body's physical makeup, including
the brain, nervous system, muscles, and senses, and the need for food,
drink, and sleep
●● cognitive development
Answer: study of how children acquire the ability to learn, think, reason,
communicate, and remember
●● personality development
Answer: stability and change in the characteristics that differentiate one
person from another over the life span
●● social development
Answer: the way in which individuals' interactions with others and their
social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of
life
●● non-normative life events
Answer: unusual occurrences that have a major impact on an individual's
life
●● continuous change
Answer: gradual development in which achievements at one level build
on those of previous levels
,●● discontinuous change
Answer: development that occurs in distinct steps or stages, with each
stage bringing about behavior that is assumed to be qualitatively
different from behavior at earlier stages
●● critical period
Answer: a specific time in development when certain skills or abilities
are most easily learned
●● sensitive period
Answer: a limited phase in an individual animal's development in which
they're particularly susceptible to certain kinds of stimuli in the
environment
●● theoretical perspectives on lifespan development
Answer: Psychodynamic, Behavioral & Cognitive Perspectives
●● psychodynamic perspective
Answer: how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
●● behavioral perspective
Answer: the approach that suggests that observable, measurable
behavior should be the focus of study
, ●● cognitive perspective
Answer: modern perspective that focuses on memory, intelligence,
perception, problem solving, and learning
●● expand theories within psychodynamic perspective
Answer: - psychoanalytic (Freud): suggests that unconscious forces act
to determine personality and behavior; ex: desires
- psychosocial theory (Erikson): suggests our behavioral development
occurs in 8 fixed, similar stages
●● expand theories within behavioral perspective
Answer: social-cognitive learning theory: emphasizes learning by
observing the behavior or another person, or model
●● expand theories within cognitive perspective
Answer: Theory of Cognitive Development (Piaget): suggests that
growth in children's understanding of the world could be explained by
assimilation [people understanding new experience in terms of current
stage of cognitive development] and accommodation [changes in
existing ways of thinking in response to encounters with new stimuli or
events]
