Growth and Development Across the Lifespan 2nd, 3rd Edition
Leifer Test Bank
Normative age-graded influences are similar for individuals in a particular age group.
Give an example - ANSWER: These influences include biological processes such as puberty and
menopause
Normative history-graded influences are common to people of a particular generation because of
historical circumstances.
Give an example - ANSWER: For example, in their youth American baby boomers shared the
experience of the Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the Beatles invasion.
Nonnormative life events are unusual occurrences that have a major impact on the lives of individual
people. These events do not happen to everyone, and when they do occur they can influence people
in different ways
Give an example - ANSWER: Examples include the death of a parent when a child is young, pregnancy
in early adolescence, a fire that destroys a home, winning the lottery, or getting an unexpected career
opportunity.
The behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a group that are passed on from generation
to generation.
culture
ethnicity
socioeconomic status (SES)
gender - ANSWER: culture
A characteristic based on cultural heritage, nationality characteristics, race, religion, and language.
culture
ethnicity
socioeconomic status (SES)
gender - ANSWER: ethnicity
Refers to the grouping of people with similar occupational, educational, and economic characteristics.
culture
ethnicity
socioeconomic status (SES)
gender - ANSWER: socioeconomic status (SES)
The characteristics of people as males or females.
culture
ethnicity
socioeconomic status (SES)
gender - ANSWER: gender
Changes in an individual's physical nature.
biological processes
cognitive processes
, socioemotional processes - ANSWER: biological processes
Changes in an individual's thought, intelligence, and language.
biological processes
cognitive processes
socioemotional processes - ANSWER: cognitive processes
Changes in an individual's relationships with other people, emotions, and personality.
biological processes
cognitive processes
socioemotional processes - ANSWER: socioemotional processes
Theories that describe development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion.
Behavior is merely a surface characteristic, and the symbolic workings of the mind have to be
analyzed to understand behavior. Early experiences with parents are emphasized.
psychoanalytic theories
psychosocial theories - ANSWER: psychoanalytic theories
what stage is from birth to 1 1/2 years
genital stage
oral stage
latency stage
phallic stage
anal stage - ANSWER: oral stage
what stage is from 1 1/2 to 3 years
genital stage
oral stage
latency stage
phallic stage
anal stage - ANSWER: anal stage
what stage is from 3 to 6 years
genital stage
oral stage
latency stage
phallic stage
anal stage - ANSWER: phallic stage
what stage is from 6 to puberty
genital stage
oral stage
latency stage
phallic stage
anal stage - ANSWER: latency stage
what stage is from puberty onward
genital stage
oral stage
Leifer Test Bank
Normative age-graded influences are similar for individuals in a particular age group.
Give an example - ANSWER: These influences include biological processes such as puberty and
menopause
Normative history-graded influences are common to people of a particular generation because of
historical circumstances.
Give an example - ANSWER: For example, in their youth American baby boomers shared the
experience of the Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the Beatles invasion.
Nonnormative life events are unusual occurrences that have a major impact on the lives of individual
people. These events do not happen to everyone, and when they do occur they can influence people
in different ways
Give an example - ANSWER: Examples include the death of a parent when a child is young, pregnancy
in early adolescence, a fire that destroys a home, winning the lottery, or getting an unexpected career
opportunity.
The behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a group that are passed on from generation
to generation.
culture
ethnicity
socioeconomic status (SES)
gender - ANSWER: culture
A characteristic based on cultural heritage, nationality characteristics, race, religion, and language.
culture
ethnicity
socioeconomic status (SES)
gender - ANSWER: ethnicity
Refers to the grouping of people with similar occupational, educational, and economic characteristics.
culture
ethnicity
socioeconomic status (SES)
gender - ANSWER: socioeconomic status (SES)
The characteristics of people as males or females.
culture
ethnicity
socioeconomic status (SES)
gender - ANSWER: gender
Changes in an individual's physical nature.
biological processes
cognitive processes
, socioemotional processes - ANSWER: biological processes
Changes in an individual's thought, intelligence, and language.
biological processes
cognitive processes
socioemotional processes - ANSWER: cognitive processes
Changes in an individual's relationships with other people, emotions, and personality.
biological processes
cognitive processes
socioemotional processes - ANSWER: socioemotional processes
Theories that describe development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion.
Behavior is merely a surface characteristic, and the symbolic workings of the mind have to be
analyzed to understand behavior. Early experiences with parents are emphasized.
psychoanalytic theories
psychosocial theories - ANSWER: psychoanalytic theories
what stage is from birth to 1 1/2 years
genital stage
oral stage
latency stage
phallic stage
anal stage - ANSWER: oral stage
what stage is from 1 1/2 to 3 years
genital stage
oral stage
latency stage
phallic stage
anal stage - ANSWER: anal stage
what stage is from 3 to 6 years
genital stage
oral stage
latency stage
phallic stage
anal stage - ANSWER: phallic stage
what stage is from 6 to puberty
genital stage
oral stage
latency stage
phallic stage
anal stage - ANSWER: latency stage
what stage is from puberty onward
genital stage
oral stage
