LIFESPAN COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATION TEST VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
●● Development is Multideminsional
Answer: Development has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional
dimensions.
Even within a dimension, there are many components. For example,
attention, memory, abstract thinking, speed of processing information,
and social intelligence are just a few of the components of the cognitive
dimension. No matter what your age might be, your body, mind,
emotions, and relationships are changing and affecting each other.
●● Development is plastic
Answer: Plasticity means the capacity for change.
●● Development is Lifelong
Answer: In the life-span perspective, early adulthood is not the endpoint
of development; rather, no age period dominates development.
Researchers increasingly study the experiences and psychological
orientations of adults at different points in their lives.
●● Development is Multidisciplinary
,Answer: Psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists,
and medical researchers all share an interest in unlocking the mysteries
of development through the life span.
●● Development is Contextual
Answer: All development occurs within a context, or setting.
Contexts include families, schools, peer groups, churches, cities,
neighborhoods, university laboratories, countries, and so on. Each of
these settings is influenced by historical, economic, social, and cultural
factors.
●● Nature vs. Nurture
Answer: "Nature" refers to genetic factors involved in development
(heredity)
"Nurture" refers to environmental factors and experiences involved in
development
●● Continuity vs. Discontinuity
Answer: "Continuity" theory says that development is a gradual,
continuous process.
, "Discontinuity" theory says that development occurs in a series of
distinct stages.
●● Stability vs. Change
Answer: Debate about whether we become older renditions of our early
experience (stability) or whether we develop into someone different
from who we were at an earlier point in development (change).
●● Frued's Psychosexual Theory of development
Answer: Theory that as children grow up, their focus of pleasure and
sexual impulses shifts from the mouth to the anus and eventually to the
genitals. As a result, we go through five stages of psychosexual
development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Our adult
personality is determined by the way we resolve conflicts between
sources of pleasure at each stage and the demands of reality.
●● Erik Erikson's stages of Psychosocial development
Answer: Pyschosocial theory that proposes eight stages of human
development. Each stage consists of a unique developmental task that
confronts individuals with a crisis that must be resolved.
1. Trust vs. Mistrust
2. Autonomy vs. Doubt/Shame
3. Initiative vs. Guilt
4. Industry vs. Inferiority
EXAMINATION TEST VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
●● Development is Multideminsional
Answer: Development has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional
dimensions.
Even within a dimension, there are many components. For example,
attention, memory, abstract thinking, speed of processing information,
and social intelligence are just a few of the components of the cognitive
dimension. No matter what your age might be, your body, mind,
emotions, and relationships are changing and affecting each other.
●● Development is plastic
Answer: Plasticity means the capacity for change.
●● Development is Lifelong
Answer: In the life-span perspective, early adulthood is not the endpoint
of development; rather, no age period dominates development.
Researchers increasingly study the experiences and psychological
orientations of adults at different points in their lives.
●● Development is Multidisciplinary
,Answer: Psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists,
and medical researchers all share an interest in unlocking the mysteries
of development through the life span.
●● Development is Contextual
Answer: All development occurs within a context, or setting.
Contexts include families, schools, peer groups, churches, cities,
neighborhoods, university laboratories, countries, and so on. Each of
these settings is influenced by historical, economic, social, and cultural
factors.
●● Nature vs. Nurture
Answer: "Nature" refers to genetic factors involved in development
(heredity)
"Nurture" refers to environmental factors and experiences involved in
development
●● Continuity vs. Discontinuity
Answer: "Continuity" theory says that development is a gradual,
continuous process.
, "Discontinuity" theory says that development occurs in a series of
distinct stages.
●● Stability vs. Change
Answer: Debate about whether we become older renditions of our early
experience (stability) or whether we develop into someone different
from who we were at an earlier point in development (change).
●● Frued's Psychosexual Theory of development
Answer: Theory that as children grow up, their focus of pleasure and
sexual impulses shifts from the mouth to the anus and eventually to the
genitals. As a result, we go through five stages of psychosexual
development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Our adult
personality is determined by the way we resolve conflicts between
sources of pleasure at each stage and the demands of reality.
●● Erik Erikson's stages of Psychosocial development
Answer: Pyschosocial theory that proposes eight stages of human
development. Each stage consists of a unique developmental task that
confronts individuals with a crisis that must be resolved.
1. Trust vs. Mistrust
2. Autonomy vs. Doubt/Shame
3. Initiative vs. Guilt
4. Industry vs. Inferiority
