Human Growth & Development Exam 1
practice questions and answers
Lifespan Development - answer examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior
throughout the lifespan
4 domains of development - answer physical, cognitive, personality, social
Age & range differences - answer prenatal, infancy and toddlerhood, middle childhood,
adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood
quantitative - answer changes in number or amount
qualitative - answer changes in kind, structure or organization
theory - answer broad, organized explanations and predictions concerning phenomena of
interest
psychoanalytic theory - answer Freud; focus on inner person, unconscious forces act to
determine personality and behavior. id, ego, and superego
Id - answer pleasure principle
Ego - answer reality principle
superego - answer follows rules of society
Freudian Psychosexual stages - answer oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
, psychosocial theory - answer Erikson; development occurs through changes in interactions with
and understanding of others
behavioral theory - answer John b. Watson & B.F. Skinner; focus on observable behavior and
outside environmental stimuli, strengthened or weakened by negative or positive consequences
Behavioral - answer Albert Bandura & colleagues; behavior is learned through observation
Cognitive perspective - answer Jean Piaget; focus on processes that allow people to know,
understand, and think about the world, classical conditioning
contextual perspective - answer Urie Bronfenbrenner; focus on relationships between
individuals and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social worlds
Sociocultural perspective - answer Lev Vygotsky; as children play and cooperate with others,
they learn what is important in their society and advance cognitively in their understanding of
the world, zone of proximal development
Longitudinal studies - answer measures individual change
cross-sectional studies - answer measures people of different ages at same point in time
sequential studies - answer complex combination of cross sectional and longitudinal
prenatal testing - answer amniocentesis, CVS embryoscopy, FBS, sonoembrology, sonogram,
ultrasound sonography
stages of prenatal development - answer germinal, embryonic, fetal
practice questions and answers
Lifespan Development - answer examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior
throughout the lifespan
4 domains of development - answer physical, cognitive, personality, social
Age & range differences - answer prenatal, infancy and toddlerhood, middle childhood,
adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood
quantitative - answer changes in number or amount
qualitative - answer changes in kind, structure or organization
theory - answer broad, organized explanations and predictions concerning phenomena of
interest
psychoanalytic theory - answer Freud; focus on inner person, unconscious forces act to
determine personality and behavior. id, ego, and superego
Id - answer pleasure principle
Ego - answer reality principle
superego - answer follows rules of society
Freudian Psychosexual stages - answer oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
, psychosocial theory - answer Erikson; development occurs through changes in interactions with
and understanding of others
behavioral theory - answer John b. Watson & B.F. Skinner; focus on observable behavior and
outside environmental stimuli, strengthened or weakened by negative or positive consequences
Behavioral - answer Albert Bandura & colleagues; behavior is learned through observation
Cognitive perspective - answer Jean Piaget; focus on processes that allow people to know,
understand, and think about the world, classical conditioning
contextual perspective - answer Urie Bronfenbrenner; focus on relationships between
individuals and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social worlds
Sociocultural perspective - answer Lev Vygotsky; as children play and cooperate with others,
they learn what is important in their society and advance cognitively in their understanding of
the world, zone of proximal development
Longitudinal studies - answer measures individual change
cross-sectional studies - answer measures people of different ages at same point in time
sequential studies - answer complex combination of cross sectional and longitudinal
prenatal testing - answer amniocentesis, CVS embryoscopy, FBS, sonoembrology, sonogram,
ultrasound sonography
stages of prenatal development - answer germinal, embryonic, fetal
