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This document contains comprehensive exam material for the course Human Growth and Development. It includes a wide range of key terms, definitions, and major theoretical concepts required for test preparation. Topics span the entire lifespan—from infancy to late adulthood—and cover areas such as developmental theories, biological and cognitive growth, social influences, and major psychological perspectives. Designed to help students prepare efficiently for exams, this file serves as a full glossary-style reference covering all essential concepts in developmental psychology.

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Human Growth and Development- Quiz 1
the science that seeks to understand how and why people of all ages and circumstances change or
remain the same over time -
☑️ science of human development

What are the basic contours of human development? -
☑️ multicultural multicontextual multidirectional multidisciplinary plastic and life long

Human development depends on patterns of behavior that are passed on from one generation to the
next. These patterns of behavior can come from one's ethnic group, residents in a certain region, or
people in the same neighborhood. -
☑️ multicultural

Human development does not simply take place in one context but depends on many different
contexts, including physical surroundings, family, social economic -
☑️ multicontextual

a person's position in society as determined by income occupation education and place of residence
-
☑️ socioeconomic system

human development has gains and losses as people age, at every stage; they have periods of great
growth and periods of little or no growth -
☑️ multidirectional

We must look to many disciplines to fully understand human development, including psychology,
sociology, biology, history, medicine, political science, and many more, because humans develop
simultaneously in many domains, contexts, and cultures -
☑️ multidisciplinary

Human Development can be molded depending on one's environment even though there is a certain
degree of one's development that is inherited biologically. Basically development is connected with
prior events but is also open to change (nature vs nurture) ( change over time) -
☑️ plastic

human development takes into account all phases of life ( infancy, early middle childhood
adolescence young adult etc) not just adult hood or child hood -
☑️ life long

a time when a particular type of growth must happen (in body or behavior). If the critical period
passes without the growth, the person will never grow in that way. -
☑️ critical period

a time when a certain type of development is most likely to happen and happens most easily. If that
development does not occur, it can still occur later -
☑️ sensitive period

a group of people who are born at about the same time and thus move through life together,
experiencing the same historical events and cultural shifts at about the same age. -

, ☑️ cohort

a theory of human development that holds that irrational unconscious drives and motives often
originating in childhood underlie human behavior -
☑️ psychoanalytic/psychodynamic theory

what are Freud's psychosexual stages of development? -
☑️ oral anal phallic latency genital

birth-18mo: infants experience pleasure from stimulus of the mouth lips or oral activities (sucking) -
☑️ oral stage

18mo- 3yo: child focuses on anus and elimination functions -
☑️ anal stage

3yo-6yo: child's pleasure focuses on the genitals -
☑️ phallic stage

6yo-12yo: child represses sexual interest and develops cognitive, social and intellectual skills -
☑️ latency stage

12yo- death: adolescence triggers reemergence of sexual impulses -
☑️ genital stage

what did Erikson's stages of psychosocial development consist of -
☑️ he recognized 2 polarities even though many different outcomes are possible

infant-18mo: developed when care givers provide reliability care and affection -
☑️ trust vs mistrust

18mo-3yo: need to develop a sense of personal control over and independence -
☑️ autonomy vs shame and doubt

3yo-6yo: need to assert control over and power over environment (sense of purpose) -
☑️ initiative vs guilt

6yo-12yo: need to cope with new social and academic demands (sense of competence) -
☑️ industry vs inferiority

12yo-18yo: develop a sense of self and personal identity -
☑️ identity vs role confusion

18yo-40yo: form intimate and loving relationships -
☑️ intimacy vs isolation

40yo-65yo: create something or nurture something that will out last them -
☑️ generativity vs stagnation

65yo-death: need to look back on life and feel a sense of accomplishment -
☑️ integrity vs despair

a theory of human development that studies observable behavior; also called the learning theory -

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