Lifespan Development Final Exam
Chapters 1-12 Chapter 1-4 fully solved
Development - correct answer ✔✔The pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and
continues through the human lifespan
Lifespan Perspective - correct answer ✔✔views development as lifelong, multidimensional,
multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary and contextual, and as a process that involves growth.
Non-normative influences - correct answer ✔✔unusual occurrences that have a major impact on an
individuals life
EX: death of a parent when young
normative age-graded influences - correct answer ✔✔individuals in a particular age group
EX: puberty and menopause
normative history-graded influences - correct answer ✔✔common to people of a particular generation
because of historical circumstances
EX: Covid- 19 pandemic, 9/11, JFK assassination, and Cuban missal crisis
sociemotional processes - correct answer ✔✔involve change in the individuals relationships with other
people, changes in emotion, and changes in personality
cognitive processes - correct answer ✔✔changes in an individual's thoughts, intelligence, and language
biological processes - correct answer ✔✔changes in an individuals physical nature
developmental social neuroscience - correct answer ✔✔examines connections between socioemotional
processes, development, and the brain
,Development Cognitive Neuroscience - correct answer ✔✔explores links between development,
cognitive processes, and the brain
Periods of devlopment - correct answer ✔✔-prenatal
- infancy
- early childhood
- middle/ late childhood
- adolescence
-early adulthood
- middle adulthood
-late adulthood
Psycoanalytic Theories - correct answer ✔✔describes development as primarily unconscious and heavily
colored by emotion
Piaget's four stages of cognitive development - correct answer ✔✔- sensorimotor
- preoperational
- concrete operational
- formal operational
Nature- Nurture issue - correct answer ✔✔debate about whether development is primarily influenced
by nature or nurture
nature - correct answer ✔✔organism's biological inheritance
Nurture - correct answer ✔✔environmental experiences
continuity-discontinuity issue - correct answer ✔✔debate about the extent to which development
involves gradual cumulative change or distinct stages
, stability- change issue - correct answer ✔✔debate about wether individuals
- become older renditions of early experience
- development into someone different from who they were at an earlier point in development
Scientific Method - correct answer ✔✔approach that can be used to obtain accurate information
-conceptualize
- collect data
- draw conclusions
- revise research conclusions and theory
Theory - correct answer ✔✔interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps to explain phenomena and
facilitate predictions
hypotheses - correct answer ✔✔specific assumptions and predictions that can be tested to determine
their accuracy
Freudian Stages - correct answer ✔✔- oral Birth to 1 1/2
- anal 1 1/1 to 3
- phallic 3 to 6
-latency 6 to puberty
- genital puberty on
Psychoanlytic theories - correct answer ✔✔describes development as primarily unconscious (beyond
awareness) and heavily colored by emotion
Information- processing theory (cognitive) - correct answer ✔✔emphasizes that individuals manipulate
information, monitor it, and strategize about it
Chapters 1-12 Chapter 1-4 fully solved
Development - correct answer ✔✔The pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and
continues through the human lifespan
Lifespan Perspective - correct answer ✔✔views development as lifelong, multidimensional,
multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary and contextual, and as a process that involves growth.
Non-normative influences - correct answer ✔✔unusual occurrences that have a major impact on an
individuals life
EX: death of a parent when young
normative age-graded influences - correct answer ✔✔individuals in a particular age group
EX: puberty and menopause
normative history-graded influences - correct answer ✔✔common to people of a particular generation
because of historical circumstances
EX: Covid- 19 pandemic, 9/11, JFK assassination, and Cuban missal crisis
sociemotional processes - correct answer ✔✔involve change in the individuals relationships with other
people, changes in emotion, and changes in personality
cognitive processes - correct answer ✔✔changes in an individual's thoughts, intelligence, and language
biological processes - correct answer ✔✔changes in an individuals physical nature
developmental social neuroscience - correct answer ✔✔examines connections between socioemotional
processes, development, and the brain
,Development Cognitive Neuroscience - correct answer ✔✔explores links between development,
cognitive processes, and the brain
Periods of devlopment - correct answer ✔✔-prenatal
- infancy
- early childhood
- middle/ late childhood
- adolescence
-early adulthood
- middle adulthood
-late adulthood
Psycoanalytic Theories - correct answer ✔✔describes development as primarily unconscious and heavily
colored by emotion
Piaget's four stages of cognitive development - correct answer ✔✔- sensorimotor
- preoperational
- concrete operational
- formal operational
Nature- Nurture issue - correct answer ✔✔debate about whether development is primarily influenced
by nature or nurture
nature - correct answer ✔✔organism's biological inheritance
Nurture - correct answer ✔✔environmental experiences
continuity-discontinuity issue - correct answer ✔✔debate about the extent to which development
involves gradual cumulative change or distinct stages
, stability- change issue - correct answer ✔✔debate about wether individuals
- become older renditions of early experience
- development into someone different from who they were at an earlier point in development
Scientific Method - correct answer ✔✔approach that can be used to obtain accurate information
-conceptualize
- collect data
- draw conclusions
- revise research conclusions and theory
Theory - correct answer ✔✔interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps to explain phenomena and
facilitate predictions
hypotheses - correct answer ✔✔specific assumptions and predictions that can be tested to determine
their accuracy
Freudian Stages - correct answer ✔✔- oral Birth to 1 1/2
- anal 1 1/1 to 3
- phallic 3 to 6
-latency 6 to puberty
- genital puberty on
Psychoanlytic theories - correct answer ✔✔describes development as primarily unconscious (beyond
awareness) and heavily colored by emotion
Information- processing theory (cognitive) - correct answer ✔✔emphasizes that individuals manipulate
information, monitor it, and strategize about it
