LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
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QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● the different focuses of lifespan development
Answer: biological processes, genetic endowment, cognitive
development, physical growth, and social development
●● approaches of lifespan development (4)
Answer: personality development, social development, physical
development, and cognitive development
●● physical development
Answer: examines the ways in which the body's makeup helps determine
behavior
●● cognitive development
Answer: seeks to understand how growth and change intellectual
capabilities influence a person's behavior
●● personality devlopment
,Answer: the study of stability and change in the enduring characteristics
that differentiate one person from another over the life span
●● social development
Answer: ways in which individuals' interactions with others and their
social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of
life
●● age and range differences
Answer: prenatal period; infancy and toddlerhood; middle childhood;
adolescence; emerging adulthood; young adulthood; middle adulthood;
late adulthood
●● prenatal period
Answer: conception to birth
●● infancy and toddlerhood period
Answer: birth to age 3
●● preschool period
Answer: ages 3 to 6
●● middle childhood
, Answer: ages 6 to 12
●● adolescence
Answer: ages 12 to 20
●● young adulthood
Answer: ages 20 to 40
●● middle adulthood
Answer: ages 40 to 65
●● late adulthood
Answer: ages 65 to death
●● cohort
Answer: group of people born at around the same time in the same place
●● influences on development
Answer: history-graded, age-graded, sociocultural-graded, non-
normative life event
●● history graded influences
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● the different focuses of lifespan development
Answer: biological processes, genetic endowment, cognitive
development, physical growth, and social development
●● approaches of lifespan development (4)
Answer: personality development, social development, physical
development, and cognitive development
●● physical development
Answer: examines the ways in which the body's makeup helps determine
behavior
●● cognitive development
Answer: seeks to understand how growth and change intellectual
capabilities influence a person's behavior
●● personality devlopment
,Answer: the study of stability and change in the enduring characteristics
that differentiate one person from another over the life span
●● social development
Answer: ways in which individuals' interactions with others and their
social relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of
life
●● age and range differences
Answer: prenatal period; infancy and toddlerhood; middle childhood;
adolescence; emerging adulthood; young adulthood; middle adulthood;
late adulthood
●● prenatal period
Answer: conception to birth
●● infancy and toddlerhood period
Answer: birth to age 3
●● preschool period
Answer: ages 3 to 6
●● middle childhood
, Answer: ages 6 to 12
●● adolescence
Answer: ages 12 to 20
●● young adulthood
Answer: ages 20 to 40
●● middle adulthood
Answer: ages 40 to 65
●● late adulthood
Answer: ages 65 to death
●● cohort
Answer: group of people born at around the same time in the same place
●● influences on development
Answer: history-graded, age-graded, sociocultural-graded, non-
normative life event
●● history graded influences
