Exam 6 Psychology Lifespan
Development questions well answered
to pass
"the study of how people change physically, mentally, and socially over the
lifespan." - correct answer ✔✔Developmental Psychology
Most theories of developmental psychology are stage theories, but life changes
occur gradually.
Stages are often marked by critical periods when we're most sensitive to
environmental influences.
Both genetics and environment play important roles in shaping the course of
lifespan development at each - correct answer ✔✔stage
such as that of Lev Vygotsky,
emphasize how other people and the attitudes, values, and beliefs of the
surrounding culture, influence children's development. - correct answer
✔✔Sociocultural theories
such as that of David Klahr,
,examine the mental processes that produce thinking at any one time and the
transition processes that lead to growth in that thinking. - correct answer
✔✔information processing theories
Theories that focus on describing the cognitive processes that underlie thinking at
any one age and cognitive growth over time. - correct answer ✔✔Information
processing theories
refers to our biological endowment, the genes we receive from our parents. -
correct answer ✔✔Nature
refers to the environments, social as well as physical, that influence our
development, everything from the womb in which we develop before birth to the
homes in which we grow up, the schools we attend, and the many people with
whom we interact. - correct answer ✔✔Nurture
The nature-nurture issue is often presented as an either-or question:
Is our intelligence (for example) due to our genes or to the environments in which
we live?
In fact, however, every aspect of development is produced by the interaction of
genes and environment.
At the most basic level, without genes, there would be no child, and without an
environment to provide nurture, there also would be no - correct answer ✔✔child
, Adding to the complexity of the nature-nurture interaction, children's genes lead
to their eliciting different treatment from other people, which influences their
cognitive development.
For example, infants' physical attractiveness and temperament are influenced
considerably by their genetic inheritance, but it is also the case that parents
provide more sensitive and affectionate care to easygoing and attractive infants
than to difficult and less attractive ones, which can contribute to the infants' later
- correct answer ✔✔cognitive development
Also contributing to the complex interplay of nature and nurture is the role of
children in shaping their own cognitive development.
From the first days out of the womb, children actively choose to attend more to
some things and less to others.
For example, even 1-month-olds choose to look at their mother's face more than
at the faces of other women of the same age and general level of - correct answer
✔✔attractiveness
Children's contributions to their own cognitive development grow larger as they
grow - correct answer ✔✔older
When children are young, their parents largely determine their experiences:
whether they will attend day care, the children with whom they will have play
dates, the books to which they have access, and so on. In contrast, older children
and adolescents choose their environments to a larger degree.
Development questions well answered
to pass
"the study of how people change physically, mentally, and socially over the
lifespan." - correct answer ✔✔Developmental Psychology
Most theories of developmental psychology are stage theories, but life changes
occur gradually.
Stages are often marked by critical periods when we're most sensitive to
environmental influences.
Both genetics and environment play important roles in shaping the course of
lifespan development at each - correct answer ✔✔stage
such as that of Lev Vygotsky,
emphasize how other people and the attitudes, values, and beliefs of the
surrounding culture, influence children's development. - correct answer
✔✔Sociocultural theories
such as that of David Klahr,
,examine the mental processes that produce thinking at any one time and the
transition processes that lead to growth in that thinking. - correct answer
✔✔information processing theories
Theories that focus on describing the cognitive processes that underlie thinking at
any one age and cognitive growth over time. - correct answer ✔✔Information
processing theories
refers to our biological endowment, the genes we receive from our parents. -
correct answer ✔✔Nature
refers to the environments, social as well as physical, that influence our
development, everything from the womb in which we develop before birth to the
homes in which we grow up, the schools we attend, and the many people with
whom we interact. - correct answer ✔✔Nurture
The nature-nurture issue is often presented as an either-or question:
Is our intelligence (for example) due to our genes or to the environments in which
we live?
In fact, however, every aspect of development is produced by the interaction of
genes and environment.
At the most basic level, without genes, there would be no child, and without an
environment to provide nurture, there also would be no - correct answer ✔✔child
, Adding to the complexity of the nature-nurture interaction, children's genes lead
to their eliciting different treatment from other people, which influences their
cognitive development.
For example, infants' physical attractiveness and temperament are influenced
considerably by their genetic inheritance, but it is also the case that parents
provide more sensitive and affectionate care to easygoing and attractive infants
than to difficult and less attractive ones, which can contribute to the infants' later
- correct answer ✔✔cognitive development
Also contributing to the complex interplay of nature and nurture is the role of
children in shaping their own cognitive development.
From the first days out of the womb, children actively choose to attend more to
some things and less to others.
For example, even 1-month-olds choose to look at their mother's face more than
at the faces of other women of the same age and general level of - correct answer
✔✔attractiveness
Children's contributions to their own cognitive development grow larger as they
grow - correct answer ✔✔older
When children are young, their parents largely determine their experiences:
whether they will attend day care, the children with whom they will have play
dates, the books to which they have access, and so on. In contrast, older children
and adolescents choose their environments to a larger degree.
