Questions and CORRECT Answers
Chapter 1 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Introduction
Define development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a pattern of changes involving growth and
decline
Major milestones of human development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- walking, talking,
theory of mind, puberty, childbirth, romantic partners
Three categories of milestone groups - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- cognitive, biological and
socioemotional
examples of cognitive process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- talking, theory of mind
examples of biological process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- physical- walking, puberty
examples of socioemotional process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- conversations, romantic
partner
three categories of outside influences - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- sociocultural and
environmental, historical, unusual life circumstances
characteristics of development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- multidimensional, lifelong,
multidirectional
prenatal period - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- conception to birth
infancy period - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- birth to 18-24 months
, early childhood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 3 to 5 years
middle and late childhood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 6 o 10/11 years
adolescence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 10/12 to 18/21 years
early adulthood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 21 to 39 years
middle adulthood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 40 to 59 years
late adulthood - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 60 to death
forms of aging - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- chronological: number of years since birth
biological: age in physical health
psychological: adaptive capacity
social: roles and expectation
three categories of theories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- continuous or discontinuous
nature or nurture
stable or plastic
continuous or discontinuous determines ____ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- con- same
throughout
dis- stage theory
nature or nurture determines ____ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- nat- inborn, biological givens
nur- physical and social
stability or plasticity determines ___ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- stab-change is unlikely
plas- change is possible