Lifespan Growth & Development - Blinn
College - Exam 1 Q&A 100% Solved
Nature - ✔✔Traits inherited genetically
Nurture - ✔✔Environmental influences that affect development
Critical Period - ✔✔Necessary period of language development
Sensitive Period - ✔✔Period where nurture and care are needed for normal
development
Cohort - ✔✔People born within a few years of one another
Culture - ✔✔Patterns of behavior passed from one generation to the next
SES - ✔✔A persons position in society as determined by income, wealth, etc
Ethnicity - ✔✔People whose ancestors were born in the same region & who
often share a language, culture & religion
Dynamic Systems Approach - ✔✔Urges consideration of all the interrelated
aspects, social and cultural factor, over days and years
Bronfenbrenner-Egological Systems Approach - ✔✔Each individual is affected by
many social contexts and interpersonal interactions
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, Cross-Sequential Research - ✔✔Studying several groups of people of different
ages & following them over the years
Quantitative Research - ✔✔Provides data that can be expressed with numbers
Polygenic - ✔✔Trait is influenced by many genes
Dominant - ✔✔Far more influential than recessive gene can completely control
the phenotype with no noticeable effect of recessive gene
Recessive - ✔✔Not as influential as the dominant gene
Qualitative Research - ✔✔Considers qualities instead of quanities
Genotype - ✔✔Organisms entire genetic inheritance
Phenotype - ✔✔Observable characteristics of an organism, including
appearance, personality, & all other traits
Homozygous - ✔✔Two genes of 1 pair that are exactly the same in every letter
of their code
Heterozygous - ✔✔Two genes of 1 pair that differ in some way
X Linked Disorders - ✔✔Special case of dominant recessive pattern; Gene
carried on the X chromosome
Stem cells - ✔✔The first cells; able to produce any other cell; can be
reprogrammed
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College - Exam 1 Q&A 100% Solved
Nature - ✔✔Traits inherited genetically
Nurture - ✔✔Environmental influences that affect development
Critical Period - ✔✔Necessary period of language development
Sensitive Period - ✔✔Period where nurture and care are needed for normal
development
Cohort - ✔✔People born within a few years of one another
Culture - ✔✔Patterns of behavior passed from one generation to the next
SES - ✔✔A persons position in society as determined by income, wealth, etc
Ethnicity - ✔✔People whose ancestors were born in the same region & who
often share a language, culture & religion
Dynamic Systems Approach - ✔✔Urges consideration of all the interrelated
aspects, social and cultural factor, over days and years
Bronfenbrenner-Egological Systems Approach - ✔✔Each individual is affected by
many social contexts and interpersonal interactions
1|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, Cross-Sequential Research - ✔✔Studying several groups of people of different
ages & following them over the years
Quantitative Research - ✔✔Provides data that can be expressed with numbers
Polygenic - ✔✔Trait is influenced by many genes
Dominant - ✔✔Far more influential than recessive gene can completely control
the phenotype with no noticeable effect of recessive gene
Recessive - ✔✔Not as influential as the dominant gene
Qualitative Research - ✔✔Considers qualities instead of quanities
Genotype - ✔✔Organisms entire genetic inheritance
Phenotype - ✔✔Observable characteristics of an organism, including
appearance, personality, & all other traits
Homozygous - ✔✔Two genes of 1 pair that are exactly the same in every letter
of their code
Heterozygous - ✔✔Two genes of 1 pair that differ in some way
X Linked Disorders - ✔✔Special case of dominant recessive pattern; Gene
carried on the X chromosome
Stem cells - ✔✔The first cells; able to produce any other cell; can be
reprogrammed
2|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
