FAD 3320 Exam 1 Questions and Correct
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Physical Development - Answer-development involving the body's physical makeup, including the brain,
nervous system, muscles, and senses, and the need for food, drink, and sleep
Cognitive Development - Answer-development involving the ways that growth and change in
intellectual capabilities influences a persons behavior
Personality Development - Answer-development involving the ways that the enduring characteristics
that differentiate one person from another change over the lifespan
Social Development - Answer-the way in which individuals' interactions with others and their social
relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of life
Cohort - Answer-a group of people born around the same time in the same place (social development)
Continuous Change - Answer-gradual development in which achievements at one level build those of
previous levels
, Discontinuous Change - Answer-development that occurs in distinct steps or stages, with each stage
bringing about behavior that is assumed to be qualitatively different from behavior at earlier stagse
Critical Period - Answer-a specific time during development when a particular event has its greatest
consequences and the presence of certain kinds of environmental stimuli are necessary for development
to proceed normally
Sensitive Period - Answer-a point in development when organisms are particularly susceptible to certain
kinds of stimuli in their environments, but the absence of those stimuli does not always produce
irreversible consequences
Maturation - Answer-the predetermined unfolding of genetic information
Psychodynamic Perspective - Answer-the approach that states behavior is motivated by inner forces,
memories, and conflicts that are generally beyond people's awareness and control
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - Answer-the theory that suggests that unconscious forces act to
determine personality and behavior
Psychosexual Development (Freud) - Answer-a series of stages that children pass through in which
pleasure, or gratification, is focused on a particular biological function and body part
Oral stage (0-12 to 18 months) - Answer-oral gratification through sucking, eating, mouthing, and biting
Anal stage (12-18 months to 3 years) - Answer-gratification from expelling and withholding feces;
coming to terms with society's controls related to toilet training
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Physical Development - Answer-development involving the body's physical makeup, including the brain,
nervous system, muscles, and senses, and the need for food, drink, and sleep
Cognitive Development - Answer-development involving the ways that growth and change in
intellectual capabilities influences a persons behavior
Personality Development - Answer-development involving the ways that the enduring characteristics
that differentiate one person from another change over the lifespan
Social Development - Answer-the way in which individuals' interactions with others and their social
relationships grow, change, and remain stable over the course of life
Cohort - Answer-a group of people born around the same time in the same place (social development)
Continuous Change - Answer-gradual development in which achievements at one level build those of
previous levels
, Discontinuous Change - Answer-development that occurs in distinct steps or stages, with each stage
bringing about behavior that is assumed to be qualitatively different from behavior at earlier stagse
Critical Period - Answer-a specific time during development when a particular event has its greatest
consequences and the presence of certain kinds of environmental stimuli are necessary for development
to proceed normally
Sensitive Period - Answer-a point in development when organisms are particularly susceptible to certain
kinds of stimuli in their environments, but the absence of those stimuli does not always produce
irreversible consequences
Maturation - Answer-the predetermined unfolding of genetic information
Psychodynamic Perspective - Answer-the approach that states behavior is motivated by inner forces,
memories, and conflicts that are generally beyond people's awareness and control
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - Answer-the theory that suggests that unconscious forces act to
determine personality and behavior
Psychosexual Development (Freud) - Answer-a series of stages that children pass through in which
pleasure, or gratification, is focused on a particular biological function and body part
Oral stage (0-12 to 18 months) - Answer-oral gratification through sucking, eating, mouthing, and biting
Anal stage (12-18 months to 3 years) - Answer-gratification from expelling and withholding feces;
coming to terms with society's controls related to toilet training
