FAD 3220 EXAM SCRIPT COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
LEARNING RESOURCE
●● Physical Development
Answer: this examines ways in which the body's makeup helps
determine behavior.
●● Cognitive development
Cognitive developmentalists
Answer: this requires seeking to understand how growth and change in
intellectual capabilities influence a persons behavior. these type of
people examine learning, memory, problem solving and intelligence.
●● Personality Development
Answer: this is the study of stability and change in the characteristics
that differentiate one person from another over the life span.
●● Social Development
Answer: is the way in which individuals interactions and relationships
with other grow and change and remain stable over the course of life.
,●● -prenatal period(conception to birth);
-infancy and toddlerhood(birth to 3);
-the preschool period(3 to 6);
-middle childhood(6 to 11); -adolescence(11 to 20);
-young adulthood(20 to 40); -middle adulthood(40 to 65);
- late adulthood(65 to death).
These are social constructions: aka culturally derived.
Answer: What are the ranges that life span is divided into?
●● -Heredity: DNA, Chromosomes, Genes
- Evniorment: Parents, Siblings, schools, neighboorhoods, communities
-Maturation: changes over time, can be innfluenced by the ones above
Answer: What are the influences on development?
●● Contexts- enviornments, philosophies, institutions ( a setting that
influence development)
-Family
,-Socioeconimic status (SES)
-Gender Roles
-Culture
-ethnicity
-language
-religion
-geographic location
Answer: What are contexts of development?
●● -Normative Age Graded Influences
-Normative History Graded Influences
Answer: What are normative influences on development?
●● -Affects the individual, like a unique circumstance
Ex.-Disease, Disability, Trauma
Answer: What are non normative influences on development?
, ●● -How much of a person's behavior is due to genetics (nature) or due
to the environment (nurture)?
• Nature: one's abilities and characteristics are inherited and
predetermined.
• Nurture: one's social and environmental influences shape their
behavior.
• We should consider that these two issues are on a continuum, with
each issue on one end of the continuum. Partocular behaviors may fall
somewhere between each end.
Answer: Nature V. Nuture
●● Cohort
Answer: What is a group of people born at or around the same time and
place
●● History-Graded Influences
Answer: what are biological and environmental influences they are
associated with a particular history moment.
●● Age graded Influences
Answer: what are biological and environmental influences that are
similar for individuals in a particular age group regardless of when or
where they were raised.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
LEARNING RESOURCE
●● Physical Development
Answer: this examines ways in which the body's makeup helps
determine behavior.
●● Cognitive development
Cognitive developmentalists
Answer: this requires seeking to understand how growth and change in
intellectual capabilities influence a persons behavior. these type of
people examine learning, memory, problem solving and intelligence.
●● Personality Development
Answer: this is the study of stability and change in the characteristics
that differentiate one person from another over the life span.
●● Social Development
Answer: is the way in which individuals interactions and relationships
with other grow and change and remain stable over the course of life.
,●● -prenatal period(conception to birth);
-infancy and toddlerhood(birth to 3);
-the preschool period(3 to 6);
-middle childhood(6 to 11); -adolescence(11 to 20);
-young adulthood(20 to 40); -middle adulthood(40 to 65);
- late adulthood(65 to death).
These are social constructions: aka culturally derived.
Answer: What are the ranges that life span is divided into?
●● -Heredity: DNA, Chromosomes, Genes
- Evniorment: Parents, Siblings, schools, neighboorhoods, communities
-Maturation: changes over time, can be innfluenced by the ones above
Answer: What are the influences on development?
●● Contexts- enviornments, philosophies, institutions ( a setting that
influence development)
-Family
,-Socioeconimic status (SES)
-Gender Roles
-Culture
-ethnicity
-language
-religion
-geographic location
Answer: What are contexts of development?
●● -Normative Age Graded Influences
-Normative History Graded Influences
Answer: What are normative influences on development?
●● -Affects the individual, like a unique circumstance
Ex.-Disease, Disability, Trauma
Answer: What are non normative influences on development?
, ●● -How much of a person's behavior is due to genetics (nature) or due
to the environment (nurture)?
• Nature: one's abilities and characteristics are inherited and
predetermined.
• Nurture: one's social and environmental influences shape their
behavior.
• We should consider that these two issues are on a continuum, with
each issue on one end of the continuum. Partocular behaviors may fall
somewhere between each end.
Answer: Nature V. Nuture
●● Cohort
Answer: What is a group of people born at or around the same time and
place
●● History-Graded Influences
Answer: what are biological and environmental influences they are
associated with a particular history moment.
●● Age graded Influences
Answer: what are biological and environmental influences that are
similar for individuals in a particular age group regardless of when or
where they were raised.
