Lifespan Growth & Development - Blinn
College - Exam 1 Questions With Correct
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Nature - Answer✔Traits inherited genetically
Nurture - Answer✔Environmental influences that affect development
Critical Period - Answer✔Necessary period of language development
Sensitive Period - Answer✔Period where nurture and care are needed for normal development
Cohort - Answer✔People born within a few years of one another
Culture - Answer✔Patterns of behavior passed from one generation to the next
SES - Answer✔A persons position in society as determined by income, wealth, etc
Ethnicity - Answer✔People whose ancestors were born in the same region & who often share a
language, culture & religion
Dynamic Systems Approach - Answer✔Urges consideration of all the interrelated aspects, social
and cultural factor, over days and years
Bronfenbrenner-Egological Systems Approach - Answer✔Each individual is affected by many
social contexts and interpersonal interactions
Cross-Sequential Research - Answer✔Studying several groups of people of different ages &
following them over the years
Quantitative Research - Answer✔Provides data that can be expressed with numbers
Polygenic - Answer✔Trait is influenced by many genes
Dominant - Answer✔Far more influential than recessive gene can completely control the
phenotype with no noticeable effect of recessive gene
Recessive - Answer✔Not as influential as the dominant gene
Qualitative Research - Answer✔Considers qualities instead of quanities