HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A field of study devoted to understanding constancy and change throughout the llifespan -
ANS human developmemt
an orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior -
ANS theory
a process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there to begin with -
ANS continuous development
a process in which new and different ways of interpreting and responding to the world emerge
at particular time periods - ANS discontinuous development
qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specifice periods of
development - ANS stages
Unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different
paths of change. - ANS contexts
inborn biological givens vs. complex forces of the physical and social world that influence our
biological makeup and psychological experiences before and after birth - ANS nature-nurture
controversy
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, The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social,
economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a
newborn infant can expect to live. - ANS life expectancy
(1) development as lifelong (2) development as multidimensional and multidirectional (3)
development as highly plastic (4) development as embedded in multiple contexts -
ANS lifespan perspective
events that are strongly related to age and therefore fairly predictable in whwen they occur and
how long they last - ANS age-graded influences
forces unique to a particular historic era that explain why people born around the same time
tend to be alike in ways that set them apart from people born at other times - ANS history-
graded influences
in medieval Europe once children emerged from infancy ther were regarded as miniature
already-formed adults - ANS preformationism
"tabula rasa" (blank slate) children in the beginning are nothing at all and all kinds of
experiences can shape their character. Nurture to shape a child - ANS John Locke
children were noble savages, naturally endowed with a sense of right and wrong. Adult training
would only harm children. - ANS Jean Jacques Rousseau
older people can compensate for intellectual declines that, at times, may reflect hidden gains -
ANS Tetens
four periods of life: childhood, youth, adulthood, senescence - ANS Carus
natural selection and survival of the fittest - ANS Charles Darwin
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EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A field of study devoted to understanding constancy and change throughout the llifespan -
ANS human developmemt
an orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior -
ANS theory
a process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there to begin with -
ANS continuous development
a process in which new and different ways of interpreting and responding to the world emerge
at particular time periods - ANS discontinuous development
qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specifice periods of
development - ANS stages
Unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different
paths of change. - ANS contexts
inborn biological givens vs. complex forces of the physical and social world that influence our
biological makeup and psychological experiences before and after birth - ANS nature-nurture
controversy
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, The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social,
economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a
newborn infant can expect to live. - ANS life expectancy
(1) development as lifelong (2) development as multidimensional and multidirectional (3)
development as highly plastic (4) development as embedded in multiple contexts -
ANS lifespan perspective
events that are strongly related to age and therefore fairly predictable in whwen they occur and
how long they last - ANS age-graded influences
forces unique to a particular historic era that explain why people born around the same time
tend to be alike in ways that set them apart from people born at other times - ANS history-
graded influences
in medieval Europe once children emerged from infancy ther were regarded as miniature
already-formed adults - ANS preformationism
"tabula rasa" (blank slate) children in the beginning are nothing at all and all kinds of
experiences can shape their character. Nurture to shape a child - ANS John Locke
children were noble savages, naturally endowed with a sense of right and wrong. Adult training
would only harm children. - ANS Jean Jacques Rousseau
older people can compensate for intellectual declines that, at times, may reflect hidden gains -
ANS Tetens
four periods of life: childhood, youth, adulthood, senescence - ANS Carus
natural selection and survival of the fittest - ANS Charles Darwin
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