PSYC 140 Module 1 |2025-2026 LATEST UPDATED| REAL EXAM AND
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100% RATED CORRECT | 100%
VERFIED | ALREADY GRADED A+
1. What is lifespan development?: studies physical/social/cognitive/emotional
changes across a lifespan (conception to death)
2. What are the major period of lifespan development?: prenatal development
to infancy to toddlerhood to early childhood to middle childhood to adolescence
to early adulthood to middle adulthood to late adulthood and end of life
3. What are the features of lifespan development?: lifelong, multidirectional,
multidisciplinary, multidimensional
4. T or F. All age groups are important to study/support: true
5. What does multidirectional mean?: change can be good or bad or both
simultaneously (aging and maturing)
6. Define aging.: process of becoming old; kids grow and adults age
7. Define maturation.: becoming more developed and advanced physically,
emotionally, and cognitively; brains/bodies/thinking/emotional regulation
becomes more mature as our bodies physically age
,8. What does multidisciplinary mean?: when you study lifespan development,
you'll always be intersecting with health, education, psychology, and other areas
9. What does multidimensional mean?: feature of development being
biological, social, emotional, and cognitive
10. Compare and contrast nature vs nurture: Nature = genetic and biological
(born that way)
Nurture = learned and influenced by others; environmental (parental influence,
socioeconomic status, level of education)
11. Define continuous development.: gradual; transitions blend together; behav-
iorists
Various stages of development gradually flow into one another
12. Define discontinuous development.: discrete beginning and endings; clear
stage progression; stage theorists
13. Was Sigmund Freud's psychodynamic (psychosexual stages of
development) continuous or discontinuous and more focused on nature
or nurture?-
: discontinuous and both nature and nurture
, 14. Describe the ID.: unconscious impulses/immediate fulfillment or pleasure;
emerges at birth; most basic
15. Describe the ego.: conscious; emerges at infancy; reality principle; not all
desires can be fulfilled or might be fulfilled after delay
16. Describe the superego.: functions like a conscience; emerges in early
childhood, final function of personality; child's internalization of social norms
and standards
17. Describe Freud's psychodynamic theory.: personalities develop based on
interactions and conflict between ID, ego, and superego
personality developmental stage theory that is named after the bodily area from
which a person at a particular age centers her pleasure/enjoyment
18. Describe Freud's psychosexual stages.: Five stages involve a conflict and
fixation with an area of the body associated with sexual gratification
Too much or too little pleasure in a stage can cause a person to be fixated as they
seek to recreate pleasure or address the fact that they were deprived during that
stage's pleasures
Stages grow from dependency in infancy to mature functioning and productivity in
adulthood
1. oral stage (0 - 18 months)
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100% RATED CORRECT | 100%
VERFIED | ALREADY GRADED A+
1. What is lifespan development?: studies physical/social/cognitive/emotional
changes across a lifespan (conception to death)
2. What are the major period of lifespan development?: prenatal development
to infancy to toddlerhood to early childhood to middle childhood to adolescence
to early adulthood to middle adulthood to late adulthood and end of life
3. What are the features of lifespan development?: lifelong, multidirectional,
multidisciplinary, multidimensional
4. T or F. All age groups are important to study/support: true
5. What does multidirectional mean?: change can be good or bad or both
simultaneously (aging and maturing)
6. Define aging.: process of becoming old; kids grow and adults age
7. Define maturation.: becoming more developed and advanced physically,
emotionally, and cognitively; brains/bodies/thinking/emotional regulation
becomes more mature as our bodies physically age
,8. What does multidisciplinary mean?: when you study lifespan development,
you'll always be intersecting with health, education, psychology, and other areas
9. What does multidimensional mean?: feature of development being
biological, social, emotional, and cognitive
10. Compare and contrast nature vs nurture: Nature = genetic and biological
(born that way)
Nurture = learned and influenced by others; environmental (parental influence,
socioeconomic status, level of education)
11. Define continuous development.: gradual; transitions blend together; behav-
iorists
Various stages of development gradually flow into one another
12. Define discontinuous development.: discrete beginning and endings; clear
stage progression; stage theorists
13. Was Sigmund Freud's psychodynamic (psychosexual stages of
development) continuous or discontinuous and more focused on nature
or nurture?-
: discontinuous and both nature and nurture
, 14. Describe the ID.: unconscious impulses/immediate fulfillment or pleasure;
emerges at birth; most basic
15. Describe the ego.: conscious; emerges at infancy; reality principle; not all
desires can be fulfilled or might be fulfilled after delay
16. Describe the superego.: functions like a conscience; emerges in early
childhood, final function of personality; child's internalization of social norms
and standards
17. Describe Freud's psychodynamic theory.: personalities develop based on
interactions and conflict between ID, ego, and superego
personality developmental stage theory that is named after the bodily area from
which a person at a particular age centers her pleasure/enjoyment
18. Describe Freud's psychosexual stages.: Five stages involve a conflict and
fixation with an area of the body associated with sexual gratification
Too much or too little pleasure in a stage can cause a person to be fixated as they
seek to recreate pleasure or address the fact that they were deprived during that
stage's pleasures
Stages grow from dependency in infancy to mature functioning and productivity in
adulthood
1. oral stage (0 - 18 months)
