LIFESPAN CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED APLUS
●● 3 domains of lifespan development: physical.
Answer: Change in body size, proportions and appearance.
Function of body systems.
Brain development.
Perceptual and motor capacities.
Physical health.
●● 3 domains of lifespan development: social and emotional.
Answer: Development of communication.
Know about other people.
Interpersonal skills.
Friendships and relationships.
Moral reasoning and behaviour.
●● 3 domains of lifespan development: cognitive.
Answer: Attention.
Memory.
,Imagination, creativity and representation of world through language.
Abstract and everyday knowledge.
Problem solving.
●● Phases of lifespan: early life- prenatal period.
Answer: Conception to birth.
Most dramatic period of change.
●● Phases of lifespan: early life- infancy and toddlerhood.
Answer: Infancy- 0-1 years old.
Toddlerhood- 1-2 years old.
Dramatic changes in body and brain.
Emergence of motor, perceptual and intellectual capacities.
Language.
Social relationships.
Beginnings of autonomy and behaviour.
●● Phases of lifespan: periods of childhood- early childhood.
Answer: 2 to 6 years old.
Body becomes linger and leaner.
Motor skills refined.
Pretend play.
,Thought and language.
Changes in relationships and increased importance of peers.
●● Phases of lifespan: periods of childhood- middle and late childhood.
Answer: 6-11 years old.
Abilities begin to resemble those of an adult.
Improved athletic abilities.
More logical thought.
Advance in self-understanding (identity).
Moral development.
●● Phases of lifespan: entering adulthood- adolescence.
Answer: 11-18 years old.
Bridge between childhood and adulthood (initiation).
Puberty.
Abstract, idealistic and individualistic thought.
Autonomy and independence.
●● Phases of lifespan: adulthood.
Answer: 20 years onwards.
Mature, logical thinking and social relationships.
Gradual deterioration of physical abilities.
, ●● Phases of lifespan: old age.
Answer: 60 years onwards.
Deterioration of cognitive and physical abilities.
Changes in social relationships (loss of independence).
●● Key themes: continuous or discontinuous development?
Answer: Is development a cumulative process ("adding on") or does it
involve stage like changes?
Discontinuous= shift in developmental-transitional period- qualitative
change.
●● Key themes: domain-specificity.
Answer: Does development of different abilities occur independently
(domain-specific) or do developments impact across wide range of
abilities (domain-general).
May affect our explanations of development changes.
Is passing a task a result of domain specific development in
understanding the physical world?
Or is it the result of domain-general development such as being able to
pay better attention and control impulses towards wrong answers?
●● Key themes: nature v.s. nurture.
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED APLUS
●● 3 domains of lifespan development: physical.
Answer: Change in body size, proportions and appearance.
Function of body systems.
Brain development.
Perceptual and motor capacities.
Physical health.
●● 3 domains of lifespan development: social and emotional.
Answer: Development of communication.
Know about other people.
Interpersonal skills.
Friendships and relationships.
Moral reasoning and behaviour.
●● 3 domains of lifespan development: cognitive.
Answer: Attention.
Memory.
,Imagination, creativity and representation of world through language.
Abstract and everyday knowledge.
Problem solving.
●● Phases of lifespan: early life- prenatal period.
Answer: Conception to birth.
Most dramatic period of change.
●● Phases of lifespan: early life- infancy and toddlerhood.
Answer: Infancy- 0-1 years old.
Toddlerhood- 1-2 years old.
Dramatic changes in body and brain.
Emergence of motor, perceptual and intellectual capacities.
Language.
Social relationships.
Beginnings of autonomy and behaviour.
●● Phases of lifespan: periods of childhood- early childhood.
Answer: 2 to 6 years old.
Body becomes linger and leaner.
Motor skills refined.
Pretend play.
,Thought and language.
Changes in relationships and increased importance of peers.
●● Phases of lifespan: periods of childhood- middle and late childhood.
Answer: 6-11 years old.
Abilities begin to resemble those of an adult.
Improved athletic abilities.
More logical thought.
Advance in self-understanding (identity).
Moral development.
●● Phases of lifespan: entering adulthood- adolescence.
Answer: 11-18 years old.
Bridge between childhood and adulthood (initiation).
Puberty.
Abstract, idealistic and individualistic thought.
Autonomy and independence.
●● Phases of lifespan: adulthood.
Answer: 20 years onwards.
Mature, logical thinking and social relationships.
Gradual deterioration of physical abilities.
, ●● Phases of lifespan: old age.
Answer: 60 years onwards.
Deterioration of cognitive and physical abilities.
Changes in social relationships (loss of independence).
●● Key themes: continuous or discontinuous development?
Answer: Is development a cumulative process ("adding on") or does it
involve stage like changes?
Discontinuous= shift in developmental-transitional period- qualitative
change.
●● Key themes: domain-specificity.
Answer: Does development of different abilities occur independently
(domain-specific) or do developments impact across wide range of
abilities (domain-general).
May affect our explanations of development changes.
Is passing a task a result of domain specific development in
understanding the physical world?
Or is it the result of domain-general development such as being able to
pay better attention and control impulses towards wrong answers?
●● Key themes: nature v.s. nurture.
