LIFESPAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT EXAM 1 (100% ACCURATE 2025 UPDATE).

LIFESPAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT EXAM 1 (100% ACCURATE 2025 UPDATE). Human development - CORRECT ANSWER - ways people grow and change across the lifespan; includes people's biological, cognitive, psychological and social functioning Difference between developed and developing countries - CORRECT ANSWER - developing countries have less wealth than developed countries Compare individualistic and collectivistic cultures - CORRECT ANSWER - individualistic cultures value independence and self-expression. Collectivistic cultures value obedience and group harmony Major theories of human development - CORRECT ANSWER - ancient conceptions and scientific conceptions Differences between Freud's and Erikson's theories - CORRECT ANSWER - Freud's psychosexual theory proposes that sexual desire is the driving force behind human development. Erikson's psychosocial theory proposes that human development is driven by the need to become integrated into the social and cultural environment Bronfenbrenner's 5 levels - CORRECT ANSWER - microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem Distinguish between dependent and independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - independent variable is the variable that is different of the experimental group than for the control group. Dependent variable is the outcome that is measured to calculate the results of the experiment by comparing the experimental group to the control group Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER - in the scientific process, a researcher's idea about one possible answer to the question proposed for investigation Compare longitudinal research design with the cross-sectional research design - CORRECT ANSWER - cross-sectional research design involves collecting data on a single occasion and longitudinal research design is when the same persons are followed overtime and data are collected on two or more occasions