PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1 |NOTES
LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1 |NOTES WITH GUARANTEED
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Development - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ systematic changes and
continuities in the individual that occur between conception and death
Physical development - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ growth of the
body and its organs, functioning of physiological systems include brain,
physical signs of aging, changes in motor abilities, etc
Cognitive development - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ changes and
continuities in perception, language, learning, memory, problem solving,
and other mental processes
,psychosocial development - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ changes in
personal and interpersonal aspects of development, such as motives,
emotions, personality traits, interpersonal skills, and relationships, and
roles played in the family and in the larger society
Growth - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ physical changes that occur from
conception to maturity
Biological aging - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ deterioration of
organisms that leads inevitably to their death. Biologically speaking,
development does involve growth in early life, stability in early/middle
adulthood, and decline associated with now-accumalted effects of aging
in later life
Aging - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ involves more than biological
aging, refers to a range of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes,
positive and negative, in mature organism. Development involves gains,
losses, neutral changes, and continuities in each phase of the life span,
growth and again part of it
Emerging adulthood - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ transitional period
between adolescence and full fledged adulthood that extends from age
18-25
*after WWII, started taking youth longer to get to adulthood and its
roles/responsibilities than it had in earlier eras as more people began to
attend college in large numbers to prepare for work/postpone marriage
, Arnett says people in Emerging Adulthood... - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ -explore identities
-lead unstable lives filled with job changes/new relationships
-self-focused, free of obligations to other, free to focus on own
psychological needs
-feel in-between- adult like in some ways but not others
-believe they have limitless possibilities ahead
Prenatal period - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ conception to birth
infancy - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ first 2 years of life
preschool period - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 2-5/6 years
middle childhood - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 6-10
adolescence - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ (puberty) 10-18
emerging adulthood - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 18-25
early adulthood - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 25-40