QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Define human development - ANS pattern of movement or change that begins at conception
and continues through the human life span
traditional approach to lifespan developement - ANS emphasizes extensive change from
birth do adolscense, little or no change in adulthood, and decline in old age
lifespan approach to development - ANS emphasizes developmental change throughout
adulthood and childhood. We are always learning.
does lifespan development have an endpoint? - ANS no
what is the difference between lifespan and life expectancy? - ANS lifespan is how long you
actually live which is a max of about 122 years. Expectancy is how long you can expect to live
based on when you were born.
cephalocaudal development - ANS growth starts from head and goes to toe in children
proximodistal development - ANS growth starts in the center and moves outward
three types of contextual influences - ANS 1. normative age-graded influences
2. normative history-graded influences
3. non-normative life events
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, biological developmental process - ANS changes in the individuals physical nature
cognitive developmental process - ANS changes in the individuals thought, intelligence, and
language
socioemotional developmental process - ANS changes in the individual's relationships with
other people, emotions
prenatal period - ANS coception to birth
continuity and discontinuity issue - ANS development is gradual and steady, not in distinct
stages
infancy period - ANS birth to 18 or 24 months
early childhood period - ANS end of infancy to age 5 or 6
middle and late childhood - ANS 6 to 11
adolescence - ANS transition from childhood to early adulthood about 10/12 to 18/25
early adulthood - ANS late teens or early 20s through thirties
middle adulthood - ANS about 40 to about 60
late adulthood - ANS 60s or 70s to death
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