HDFS 2433 Exam 1 Questions with All Correct Answers

HDFS 2433 Exam 1 Questions with All Correct Answers What are four domains of human development? - Answer-physical, social, emotional, cognitive What is the age range of human development? - Answer-from conception to death What does the nature vs nurture debate examine? - Answer-gene vs environment The comparative weight of nature or nurture. - Answer-- not 50/50 - humans only share 1-1.5% of genes - share 50% with plants and animals Continuous development - Answer-view that development is a cumulative process: gradually improving on existing skills (slope) discontinuous development - Answer-view that development takes place in unique stages, which happen at specific times or ages (staircase) Is human development continuous or discontinuous? - Answer-both, it depends Stage like development - Answer-there are qualitative changes between stages, once you enter the next stage you become a different person. Freud - Answer-- sex drive - psychodynamic theories - psychosexual stages are associated with the changing focus of the sex drive. - cannot be proven wrong, not scientific Id - Answer-- born with - pleasure principle: gain pleasure, avoid pain - driven by sex and aggressive urge Ego - Answer-- rational level of personality - reality principle: realistic and logical thinking - balance between id and superego Superego - Answer-- partially unconscious - moral principles Piaget four stages of cognitive development - Answer-sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational Sensorimotor - Answer-birth to 2 years imitations, object permanence Preoperational - Answer-2-6/7 years develop language and symbolic thinking, egocentrism