Chapter 1 & 2- Lifespan Development - A Topical
Approach Test Solved #18
Lifespan development - correct answer Field of study that explores patters of stability,
continuity, growth and change that occur from birth to death
What are the domains of development? - correct answer Physical, cognitive,
psychosocial and emotional
Physical development - correct answer Changes in the body and how a person uses
their body
Why study lifespan development? - correct answer Indicates typical behaviour, enables
appropriate responses, recognises deviations from the norm and enables advocacy.
List the 3 different lifespan development perspectives - correct answer Ecological
system - 'Brofenbrenner'
Normative and non-normative system - 'Paul Baltes'
Developmental system - 'Ford + Lerner'
Theory - correct answer A set of ordered, integrated statements that seek to explain,
describe and predict human behaviour.
Cognitive Development - correct answer Changes in methods and styles of thinking,
language ability and language use, and strategies for remembering and recalling
information.
Psychosocial development - correct answer Changes in feelings or emotions and well
as changes in relations with other people.
Psychodynamic developmental theories - correct answer Freudian Theory -
psychosexual development
Erikson's psychosocial theory
Object relations - Mahler, Stern
Behavioural and social cognitive developmental theories - correct answer Classic
conditioning - Pavlov
Operant conditioning - Skinner
Observational learning - Bandura
Cognitive developmental theories - correct answer Piaget's cognitive theory
Information Processing Theory
Neo Piagetian (Case, Fisher)
, Contextual developmental theories - correct answer Bronfenbrenner's ecological
systems theory
Vygotsky's sociocultural theory
Ethological theory
Adulthood and lifespan developmental theories - correct answer Normative-crisis model
Timing of events model
Dynamic systems perspective
Ecological system model - correct answer Individual develops within a complex system
of relationships and contexts which are sets of people, settings, recurring events,
cultural values and programs related to one another, have stability and influence the
person over time.
Microsystem - correct answer Situations in which the person has face-to-face contact
with influential others. For example; family, school, peer group, church, workplace
Mesosystem - correct answer Connections and relationships that exist between two or
more microsystems and that influence the person because of their relationships. For
example; home-school, workplace-family, school-neighbourhood
Exosystem - correct answer Settings in which the person does not participate but still
experiences decisions and events that affect them indirectly. For example; Spouse's
place of work, local school board, government
Macrosystem - correct answer Overarching institutions, practices and patterns of belief
that characterise society as a whole and take the smaller micro-, meso-, exosystems
into account. For example; ideology, social policy, shared assumptions about human
nature, the 'social-contract'.
Normative and non-normative perspective - correct answer Emphasises the nature of
development and important historical influences on development. Includes three
influences determined by interaction of environmental and biological factors.
Normative age-graded - correct answer Strong relationship with chronological age for
example; puberty
Normative history graded - correct answer War, plague, famine, introduction of
television
Non-normative graded - correct answer Injury, divorce etc
Developmental systems perspective - correct answer Emphasis on how individual
carries out transactions with their environment and how, through these transactions,
their biological, psychological, behavioural and environment elements change or remain
constant.
Approach Test Solved #18
Lifespan development - correct answer Field of study that explores patters of stability,
continuity, growth and change that occur from birth to death
What are the domains of development? - correct answer Physical, cognitive,
psychosocial and emotional
Physical development - correct answer Changes in the body and how a person uses
their body
Why study lifespan development? - correct answer Indicates typical behaviour, enables
appropriate responses, recognises deviations from the norm and enables advocacy.
List the 3 different lifespan development perspectives - correct answer Ecological
system - 'Brofenbrenner'
Normative and non-normative system - 'Paul Baltes'
Developmental system - 'Ford + Lerner'
Theory - correct answer A set of ordered, integrated statements that seek to explain,
describe and predict human behaviour.
Cognitive Development - correct answer Changes in methods and styles of thinking,
language ability and language use, and strategies for remembering and recalling
information.
Psychosocial development - correct answer Changes in feelings or emotions and well
as changes in relations with other people.
Psychodynamic developmental theories - correct answer Freudian Theory -
psychosexual development
Erikson's psychosocial theory
Object relations - Mahler, Stern
Behavioural and social cognitive developmental theories - correct answer Classic
conditioning - Pavlov
Operant conditioning - Skinner
Observational learning - Bandura
Cognitive developmental theories - correct answer Piaget's cognitive theory
Information Processing Theory
Neo Piagetian (Case, Fisher)
, Contextual developmental theories - correct answer Bronfenbrenner's ecological
systems theory
Vygotsky's sociocultural theory
Ethological theory
Adulthood and lifespan developmental theories - correct answer Normative-crisis model
Timing of events model
Dynamic systems perspective
Ecological system model - correct answer Individual develops within a complex system
of relationships and contexts which are sets of people, settings, recurring events,
cultural values and programs related to one another, have stability and influence the
person over time.
Microsystem - correct answer Situations in which the person has face-to-face contact
with influential others. For example; family, school, peer group, church, workplace
Mesosystem - correct answer Connections and relationships that exist between two or
more microsystems and that influence the person because of their relationships. For
example; home-school, workplace-family, school-neighbourhood
Exosystem - correct answer Settings in which the person does not participate but still
experiences decisions and events that affect them indirectly. For example; Spouse's
place of work, local school board, government
Macrosystem - correct answer Overarching institutions, practices and patterns of belief
that characterise society as a whole and take the smaller micro-, meso-, exosystems
into account. For example; ideology, social policy, shared assumptions about human
nature, the 'social-contract'.
Normative and non-normative perspective - correct answer Emphasises the nature of
development and important historical influences on development. Includes three
influences determined by interaction of environmental and biological factors.
Normative age-graded - correct answer Strong relationship with chronological age for
example; puberty
Normative history graded - correct answer War, plague, famine, introduction of
television
Non-normative graded - correct answer Injury, divorce etc
Developmental systems perspective - correct answer Emphasis on how individual
carries out transactions with their environment and how, through these transactions,
their biological, psychological, behavioural and environment elements change or remain
constant.
