FAD 3220 EXAM 1-CHAPTER 1-4 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Life span development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What is the field of study that examines patterns of
growth change and stability in behavior that occur throughout the life span. It uses a scientific approach
and focuses on human development
Physical Development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅this examines ways in which the body's makeup helps
determine behavior.
Cognitive development
Cognitive developmentalists - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅this requires seeking to understand how growth
and change in intellectual capabilities influence a persons behavior. these type of people examine
learning, memory, problem solving and intelligence.
Personality Development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅this is the study of stability and change in the
characteristics that differentiate one person from another over the life span.
Social Development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅is the way in which individuals interactions and
relationships with other grow and change and remain stable over the course of life.
-prenatal period(conception to birth);
-infancy and toddlerhood(birth to 3);
-the preschool period(3 to 6);
-middle childhood(6 to 11); -adolescence(11 to 20);
-young adulthood(20 to 40); -middle adulthood(40 to 65);
- late adulthood(65 to death).
These are social constructions: aka culturally derived. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are the ranges that
life span is divided into?
-Heredity: DNA, Chromosomes, Genes
,- Evniorment: Parents, Siblings, schools, neighboorhoods, communities
-Maturation: changes over time, can be innfluenced by the ones above - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What
are the influences on development?
Contexts- enviornments, philosophies, institutions ( a setting that influence development)
-Family
-Socioeconimic status (SES)
-Gender Roles
-Culture
-ethnicity
-language
-religion
-geographic location - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are contexts of development?
-Normative Age Graded Influences
-Normative History Graded Influences - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are normative influences on
development?
-Affects the individual, like a unique circumstance
Ex.-Disease, Disability, Trauma - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are non normative influences on
development?
, -How much of a person's behavior is due to genetics (nature) or due to the environment (nurture)?
• Nature: one's abilities and characteristics are inherited and predetermined.
• Nurture: one's social and environmental influences shape their behavior.
• We should consider that these two issues are on a continuum, with each issue on one end of the
continuum. Partocular behaviors may fall somewhere between each end. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Nature V. Nuture
Cohort - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What is a group of people born at or around the same time and place
History-Graded Influences - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what are biological and environmental influences
they are associated with a particular history moment.
Age graded Influences - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what are biological and environmental influences that
are similar for individuals in a particular age group regardless of when or where they were raised.
Sociocultural-Graded influences - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what are the social and cultural factors preset
at a particular time for a particular individual depending on ethnicity, social class, and subcultural
membership
Non-Normative Life events - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what are specific, atypical events that occur in a
particular persons life at a time when such events don't happen to most people.
Continuous change - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what is gradual development in which achievements at one
level build on those of previous levels.
Discontinuous change - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what is development occurs in distinct steps or stages
with each stage bringing about behavior that is assumed to be qualitatively different from behavior at
earlier stages.
Life span development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What is the field of study that examines patterns of
growth change and stability in behavior that occur throughout the life span. It uses a scientific approach
and focuses on human development
Physical Development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅this examines ways in which the body's makeup helps
determine behavior.
Cognitive development
Cognitive developmentalists - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅this requires seeking to understand how growth
and change in intellectual capabilities influence a persons behavior. these type of people examine
learning, memory, problem solving and intelligence.
Personality Development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅this is the study of stability and change in the
characteristics that differentiate one person from another over the life span.
Social Development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅is the way in which individuals interactions and
relationships with other grow and change and remain stable over the course of life.
-prenatal period(conception to birth);
-infancy and toddlerhood(birth to 3);
-the preschool period(3 to 6);
-middle childhood(6 to 11); -adolescence(11 to 20);
-young adulthood(20 to 40); -middle adulthood(40 to 65);
- late adulthood(65 to death).
These are social constructions: aka culturally derived. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are the ranges that
life span is divided into?
-Heredity: DNA, Chromosomes, Genes
,- Evniorment: Parents, Siblings, schools, neighboorhoods, communities
-Maturation: changes over time, can be innfluenced by the ones above - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What
are the influences on development?
Contexts- enviornments, philosophies, institutions ( a setting that influence development)
-Family
-Socioeconimic status (SES)
-Gender Roles
-Culture
-ethnicity
-language
-religion
-geographic location - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are contexts of development?
-Normative Age Graded Influences
-Normative History Graded Influences - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are normative influences on
development?
-Affects the individual, like a unique circumstance
Ex.-Disease, Disability, Trauma - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What are non normative influences on
development?
, -How much of a person's behavior is due to genetics (nature) or due to the environment (nurture)?
• Nature: one's abilities and characteristics are inherited and predetermined.
• Nurture: one's social and environmental influences shape their behavior.
• We should consider that these two issues are on a continuum, with each issue on one end of the
continuum. Partocular behaviors may fall somewhere between each end. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Nature V. Nuture
Cohort - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What is a group of people born at or around the same time and place
History-Graded Influences - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what are biological and environmental influences
they are associated with a particular history moment.
Age graded Influences - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what are biological and environmental influences that
are similar for individuals in a particular age group regardless of when or where they were raised.
Sociocultural-Graded influences - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what are the social and cultural factors preset
at a particular time for a particular individual depending on ethnicity, social class, and subcultural
membership
Non-Normative Life events - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what are specific, atypical events that occur in a
particular persons life at a time when such events don't happen to most people.
Continuous change - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what is gradual development in which achievements at one
level build on those of previous levels.
Discontinuous change - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what is development occurs in distinct steps or stages
with each stage bringing about behavior that is assumed to be qualitatively different from behavior at
earlier stages.
