A Topical Approach to Lifespan Development Practice Questions
with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What are the domains of development?
Answer: Physical,
cognitive, psychosocial and emotional
Question 2: Physical development
Answer: Changes in the body and how a
person uses their body
Question 3: Why study lifespan development?
Answer: Indicates typical
behaviour, enables appropriate responses, recognises deviations
from the norm and enables advocacy.
Question 4: List the 3 different lifespan development perspectives
Answer: Ecological system - 'Brofenbrenner'
Normative and non-normative system - 'Paul Baltes'
Developmental system - 'Ford + Lerner'
Question 5: Theory
Answer: A set of ordered, integrated statements that seek
to explain, describe and predict human behaviour.
Question 6: Cognitive Development
Answer: Changes in methods and styles of
thinking, language ability and language use, and strategies for
remembering and recalling information.
Question 7: Psychosocial development
Answer: Changes in feelings or
emotions and well as changes in relations with other people.
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, Question 8: Psychodynamic developmental theories
Answer: Freudian Theory
- psychosexual development
Erikson's psychosocial theory
Object relations - Mahler, Stern
Question 9: Behavioural and social cognitive developmental theories
Answer: Classic conditioning - Pavlov
Operant conditioning - Skinner
Observational learning - Bandura
Question 10: Cognitive developmental theories
Answer: Piaget's cognitive
theory
Information Processing Theory
Neo Piagetian (Case, Fisher)
Question 11: Contextual developmental theories
Answer: Bronfenbrenner's
ecological systems theory
Vygotsky's sociocultural theory
Ethological theory
Question 12: Adulthood and lifespan developmental theories
Answer: Normative-crisis model
Timing of events model
Dynamic systems perspective
Question 13: Ecological system model
Answer: Individual develops within a
complex system of relationships and contexts which are sets of
people, settings, recurring events, cultural values and programs
related to one another, have stability and influence the person over
time.
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with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What are the domains of development?
Answer: Physical,
cognitive, psychosocial and emotional
Question 2: Physical development
Answer: Changes in the body and how a
person uses their body
Question 3: Why study lifespan development?
Answer: Indicates typical
behaviour, enables appropriate responses, recognises deviations
from the norm and enables advocacy.
Question 4: List the 3 different lifespan development perspectives
Answer: Ecological system - 'Brofenbrenner'
Normative and non-normative system - 'Paul Baltes'
Developmental system - 'Ford + Lerner'
Question 5: Theory
Answer: A set of ordered, integrated statements that seek
to explain, describe and predict human behaviour.
Question 6: Cognitive Development
Answer: Changes in methods and styles of
thinking, language ability and language use, and strategies for
remembering and recalling information.
Question 7: Psychosocial development
Answer: Changes in feelings or
emotions and well as changes in relations with other people.
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, Question 8: Psychodynamic developmental theories
Answer: Freudian Theory
- psychosexual development
Erikson's psychosocial theory
Object relations - Mahler, Stern
Question 9: Behavioural and social cognitive developmental theories
Answer: Classic conditioning - Pavlov
Operant conditioning - Skinner
Observational learning - Bandura
Question 10: Cognitive developmental theories
Answer: Piaget's cognitive
theory
Information Processing Theory
Neo Piagetian (Case, Fisher)
Question 11: Contextual developmental theories
Answer: Bronfenbrenner's
ecological systems theory
Vygotsky's sociocultural theory
Ethological theory
Question 12: Adulthood and lifespan developmental theories
Answer: Normative-crisis model
Timing of events model
Dynamic systems perspective
Question 13: Ecological system model
Answer: Individual develops within a
complex system of relationships and contexts which are sets of
people, settings, recurring events, cultural values and programs
related to one another, have stability and influence the person over
time.
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