Page | 1
Experience Human Development Chapter 1:
The Study of Human Development Questions
and Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: human development
ANS 🗹🗹: scientific study of processes of change and stability throughout the
human life span.
Q: life-span development
ANS 🗹🗹: concept of human development as a lifelong process, which can be studied
scientifically - based on the idea that every portion of the life span is influenced by
earlier events and will in turn affect later events
Q: physical development
ANS 🗹🗹: growth of body and brain, including patterns of change in sensory
capacity, motor skills, and health.
Q: cognitive development
ANS 🗹🗹: pattern of change in mental abilities, such as learning attention, memory,
language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
Q: psychosocial development
ANS 🗹🗹: pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social relationships.
Q: social construction
ANS 🗹🗹: a concept or practice that may appear natural and obvious to those who
accept it, but that in reality is an invention of a particular culture or society.
Q: individual differences
ANS 🗹🗹: differences in characteristics, influences, or developmental outcomes
, Page | 2
Q: heredity
ANS 🗹🗹: inborn traits of characteristics inherited from the biological parents
aka nature
Q: environment
ANS 🗹🗹: totality of non heredity (experimential) influences on development.
aka nurture
Q: maturation
ANS 🗹🗹: unfolding of a natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes -
maturation of body and brain
Q: nuclear family
ANS 🗹🗹: two-generational kinship, economic, and household unit consisting of one
or two parents and their biological children, adopted children, or stepchildren.
Q: extended family
ANS 🗹🗹: multi-generational kinship network of parents, children, and other
relatives, sometimes living together in an extended family household.
Q: socioeconomic status (SES)
ANS 🗹🗹: combination of economic and social factors describing an individual or
family, including income, education, and occupation.
Q: risk factors
ANS 🗹🗹: conditions that increase the likelihood of a negative developmental
outcome
Q: culture
ANS 🗹🗹: a society's or group's total way of life, including customs, traditions,
beliefs, values, language, and physical products- all learned behavior, passed on
from parents to children.
Q: ethnic group
Experience Human Development Chapter 1:
The Study of Human Development Questions
and Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: human development
ANS 🗹🗹: scientific study of processes of change and stability throughout the
human life span.
Q: life-span development
ANS 🗹🗹: concept of human development as a lifelong process, which can be studied
scientifically - based on the idea that every portion of the life span is influenced by
earlier events and will in turn affect later events
Q: physical development
ANS 🗹🗹: growth of body and brain, including patterns of change in sensory
capacity, motor skills, and health.
Q: cognitive development
ANS 🗹🗹: pattern of change in mental abilities, such as learning attention, memory,
language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
Q: psychosocial development
ANS 🗹🗹: pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social relationships.
Q: social construction
ANS 🗹🗹: a concept or practice that may appear natural and obvious to those who
accept it, but that in reality is an invention of a particular culture or society.
Q: individual differences
ANS 🗹🗹: differences in characteristics, influences, or developmental outcomes
, Page | 2
Q: heredity
ANS 🗹🗹: inborn traits of characteristics inherited from the biological parents
aka nature
Q: environment
ANS 🗹🗹: totality of non heredity (experimential) influences on development.
aka nurture
Q: maturation
ANS 🗹🗹: unfolding of a natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes -
maturation of body and brain
Q: nuclear family
ANS 🗹🗹: two-generational kinship, economic, and household unit consisting of one
or two parents and their biological children, adopted children, or stepchildren.
Q: extended family
ANS 🗹🗹: multi-generational kinship network of parents, children, and other
relatives, sometimes living together in an extended family household.
Q: socioeconomic status (SES)
ANS 🗹🗹: combination of economic and social factors describing an individual or
family, including income, education, and occupation.
Q: risk factors
ANS 🗹🗹: conditions that increase the likelihood of a negative developmental
outcome
Q: culture
ANS 🗹🗹: a society's or group's total way of life, including customs, traditions,
beliefs, values, language, and physical products- all learned behavior, passed on
from parents to children.
Q: ethnic group
