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DEP - Exam #1 Questions With Correct
Answers
Development - answer✔✔Pattern of change that starts at conception and continues through the
life span
What are the 3 contextual influences of the life span? - answer✔✔1. Normative age-graded
influence
2. Normative history-graded influence
3. Nonnormative life events
Normative Age-Graded Influence - answer✔✔Biological and environmental influences that are
similar for people in the same age group
Normative History-Graded Influence - answer✔✔Generational
Nonnormative Life Events - answer✔✔Unusual occurrences in an individual's life
Social Policy - answer✔✔Government's action to promote the welfare of citizens
What are the 3 processes of development? - answer✔✔1. Biological - changes in an individual's
physical nature
2. Cognitive - changes in thought, intelligence, and language
3. Socioemotional - changes in relationships, emotions, and personality
Prenatal Period - answer✔✔(Before birth)
Single cell to a complete organism with a brain and behavior
Infancy Period - answer✔✔(Birth - 24 months)
Language, symbolic thought, coordination, and social learning
Early Childhood - answer✔✔(24 months - 6 years)
self-sufficient, follow instructions, and play with peers
Middle/Late Childhood - answer✔✔(6 years - 11 years)
Reading, writing, math, and striving to achieve
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Adolescence - answer✔✔(12 years - 22 years)
Dramatic physical changes, pursuit of independence/identity, logical/abstract/idealistic thought
Early Adulthood - answer✔✔(Late teens - 30's)
Independence, career prominence, and finding a mate
Middle Adulthood - answer✔✔(40's - 60's)
Personal/social involvement, assisting the next generation, maintaining career
Late Adulthood - answer✔✔(60's - death)
Life review, retirement, decreased strength/health
Biological Age - answer✔✔Health of an individual
Psychological Age - answer✔✔Adaptive capacity compared to other people the same age
Social Age - answer✔✔Connectedness with others
Chronological Age - answer✔✔Years of life
Nature-Nurture Debate - answer✔✔Debate on how much we are influenced by nature (biology)
and nurture (environment)
Stability-Change Debate - answer✔✔Debate on the degree which early traits and characteristics
persist or change through an individual's life
Continuity-Discontinuity Debate - answer✔✔Debate on whether development involves gradual,
cumulative change or distinct changes
Psychoanalytic Theory - answer✔✔Development depends on unconscious thought
What are Freud's 5 Stages of Psychosocial Development? - answer✔✔1. Oral (birth - 1.5 years)
2. Anal (1.5 years - 3 years)
3. Phallic (3 years - 6 years)
4. Latency (6 years - puberty)
5. Genital (puberty onward)
What are Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development? - answer✔✔1. Trust vs. Mistrust
2. Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt
3. Initiative vs. Guilt
DEP - Exam #1 Questions With Correct
Answers
Development - answer✔✔Pattern of change that starts at conception and continues through the
life span
What are the 3 contextual influences of the life span? - answer✔✔1. Normative age-graded
influence
2. Normative history-graded influence
3. Nonnormative life events
Normative Age-Graded Influence - answer✔✔Biological and environmental influences that are
similar for people in the same age group
Normative History-Graded Influence - answer✔✔Generational
Nonnormative Life Events - answer✔✔Unusual occurrences in an individual's life
Social Policy - answer✔✔Government's action to promote the welfare of citizens
What are the 3 processes of development? - answer✔✔1. Biological - changes in an individual's
physical nature
2. Cognitive - changes in thought, intelligence, and language
3. Socioemotional - changes in relationships, emotions, and personality
Prenatal Period - answer✔✔(Before birth)
Single cell to a complete organism with a brain and behavior
Infancy Period - answer✔✔(Birth - 24 months)
Language, symbolic thought, coordination, and social learning
Early Childhood - answer✔✔(24 months - 6 years)
self-sufficient, follow instructions, and play with peers
Middle/Late Childhood - answer✔✔(6 years - 11 years)
Reading, writing, math, and striving to achieve
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Adolescence - answer✔✔(12 years - 22 years)
Dramatic physical changes, pursuit of independence/identity, logical/abstract/idealistic thought
Early Adulthood - answer✔✔(Late teens - 30's)
Independence, career prominence, and finding a mate
Middle Adulthood - answer✔✔(40's - 60's)
Personal/social involvement, assisting the next generation, maintaining career
Late Adulthood - answer✔✔(60's - death)
Life review, retirement, decreased strength/health
Biological Age - answer✔✔Health of an individual
Psychological Age - answer✔✔Adaptive capacity compared to other people the same age
Social Age - answer✔✔Connectedness with others
Chronological Age - answer✔✔Years of life
Nature-Nurture Debate - answer✔✔Debate on how much we are influenced by nature (biology)
and nurture (environment)
Stability-Change Debate - answer✔✔Debate on the degree which early traits and characteristics
persist or change through an individual's life
Continuity-Discontinuity Debate - answer✔✔Debate on whether development involves gradual,
cumulative change or distinct changes
Psychoanalytic Theory - answer✔✔Development depends on unconscious thought
What are Freud's 5 Stages of Psychosocial Development? - answer✔✔1. Oral (birth - 1.5 years)
2. Anal (1.5 years - 3 years)
3. Phallic (3 years - 6 years)
4. Latency (6 years - puberty)
5. Genital (puberty onward)
What are Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development? - answer✔✔1. Trust vs. Mistrust
2. Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt
3. Initiative vs. Guilt
