PSYC 2070 MIDTERM FINAL PAPER
SOLVED QUESTIONS DETAILED ANSWERS
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●● What does the traditional approach to the study of development
emphasize on?
Answer: It emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence
(especially during infancy), little or no change in adulthood, and decline
in old age.
●● What does the lifespan approach emphasize on development?
Answer: It emphasizes developmental change throughout adulthood as
well as childhood.
●● What are the characteristics of lifespan approach?
Answer: The characteristics are lifelong, multidimensional,
multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual, and as a
process that involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss. We
should also understand that development is constructed through
biological, sociocultural, and individual factors working together.
●● Development is lifelong
Answer: conception until death must be studied to fully understand
development
,●● Multidimensional
Answer: cognitive, biological, and socio-emotional issues must be
considered to fully understand
●● Multidirectional
Answer: includes growth and decline simultaneously (consider the
decline of the tail and the webs between the fingers, along with the
declines in cognition and sensory perception in later life)
●● Plastic
Answer: humans have an amazing capacity for change.
●● Multidisciplinary
Answer: researchers from many fields contribute to the knowledge base
on human development such as anthropologists, psychologists,
sociologists, medical professionals and much more!
●● Contextual
Answer: humans are embedded in social contexts and these contextual
elements influence development on an individual and societal level
●● What are the 3 types of influences?
, Answer: Normative age-graded influences, normative history-graded
influences, and non-normative or highly individualized life events
●● Normative age-graded influences
Answer: similar experiences shared by individuals with the same age
group. Like puberty, starting school at a certain age, or retirement.
●● Normative history-graded influences
Answer: similar experiences shared by people of a specific generation
due to historical circumstance.
●● Non-normative or highly individualized life events
Answer: these are unusual occurrences that impact the individual lives
of specific people. Like the death of parents to a young child.
●● Ethnicity
Answer: shared cultural heritage, nationality, race, religion, and
language
●● culture
Answer: behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a particular
group that are passed on from generation to generation
●● socioeconomic status (SES)
SOLVED QUESTIONS DETAILED ANSWERS
SUCCESS PREPARATION PACKAGE
●● What does the traditional approach to the study of development
emphasize on?
Answer: It emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence
(especially during infancy), little or no change in adulthood, and decline
in old age.
●● What does the lifespan approach emphasize on development?
Answer: It emphasizes developmental change throughout adulthood as
well as childhood.
●● What are the characteristics of lifespan approach?
Answer: The characteristics are lifelong, multidimensional,
multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual, and as a
process that involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss. We
should also understand that development is constructed through
biological, sociocultural, and individual factors working together.
●● Development is lifelong
Answer: conception until death must be studied to fully understand
development
,●● Multidimensional
Answer: cognitive, biological, and socio-emotional issues must be
considered to fully understand
●● Multidirectional
Answer: includes growth and decline simultaneously (consider the
decline of the tail and the webs between the fingers, along with the
declines in cognition and sensory perception in later life)
●● Plastic
Answer: humans have an amazing capacity for change.
●● Multidisciplinary
Answer: researchers from many fields contribute to the knowledge base
on human development such as anthropologists, psychologists,
sociologists, medical professionals and much more!
●● Contextual
Answer: humans are embedded in social contexts and these contextual
elements influence development on an individual and societal level
●● What are the 3 types of influences?
, Answer: Normative age-graded influences, normative history-graded
influences, and non-normative or highly individualized life events
●● Normative age-graded influences
Answer: similar experiences shared by individuals with the same age
group. Like puberty, starting school at a certain age, or retirement.
●● Normative history-graded influences
Answer: similar experiences shared by people of a specific generation
due to historical circumstance.
●● Non-normative or highly individualized life events
Answer: these are unusual occurrences that impact the individual lives
of specific people. Like the death of parents to a young child.
●● Ethnicity
Answer: shared cultural heritage, nationality, race, religion, and
language
●● culture
Answer: behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a particular
group that are passed on from generation to generation
●● socioeconomic status (SES)
