LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT ACTUAL TEST
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
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●● Physical Domain
Answer: changes in height, weight, sensory capabilities, the nervous
system, as well as the propensity for disease and illness.
●● Cognitive Domain
Answer: changes in intelligence, wisdom, perception, problem-solving,
memory, and language
●● psychosocial domain
Answer: changes in emotion, self-perception, and interpersonal
relationships with family, peers, and friends
●● Plasticity
Answer: our ability to change and that many of our characteristics are
malleable
●● Age-grade
Answer: a specific age group, such as toddler, adolescent, or senior
, ●● Cohort
Answer: A group of people who are born at roughly the same period in a
particular society
●● Socioeconomic status
Answer: a way to identify families and households based on their shared
levels of education, income, and occupation
●● Poverty level
Answer: an income amount established by the federal government that is
based on a set of income thresholds that vary by family size
●● culture
Answer: totality of our shared language, knowledge, material objects,
and behavior
●● Ethnocentrism
Answer: the belief that our own culture is superior
●● Cultural relativity
Answer: an appreciation for cultural differences and the understanding
that cultural practices are best understood from the standpoint of that
particular culture
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE
●● Physical Domain
Answer: changes in height, weight, sensory capabilities, the nervous
system, as well as the propensity for disease and illness.
●● Cognitive Domain
Answer: changes in intelligence, wisdom, perception, problem-solving,
memory, and language
●● psychosocial domain
Answer: changes in emotion, self-perception, and interpersonal
relationships with family, peers, and friends
●● Plasticity
Answer: our ability to change and that many of our characteristics are
malleable
●● Age-grade
Answer: a specific age group, such as toddler, adolescent, or senior
, ●● Cohort
Answer: A group of people who are born at roughly the same period in a
particular society
●● Socioeconomic status
Answer: a way to identify families and households based on their shared
levels of education, income, and occupation
●● Poverty level
Answer: an income amount established by the federal government that is
based on a set of income thresholds that vary by family size
●● culture
Answer: totality of our shared language, knowledge, material objects,
and behavior
●● Ethnocentrism
Answer: the belief that our own culture is superior
●● Cultural relativity
Answer: an appreciation for cultural differences and the understanding
that cultural practices are best understood from the standpoint of that
particular culture
