Human Growth and
Development Across the
Lifespan-WGU latest
update 2025 A + GRADED
EXAM
Which theory of human development was proposed by Jean Piaget? - answ✔️✔️-Cognitive
developmental theory
When psychologists speak of life-span development, they are referring to an approach that emphasizes -
answ✔️✔️-the periods of the human life span involving both growth and decline
Erikson's stage for children in early childhood is - answ✔️✔️-initiative vs. guilt
The upper boundary of the human life span has historically been, and continues to be, __________
years. - answ✔️✔️-122
In early childhood, children tend to think of themselves in terms of a(n) __________ self. - answ✔️✔️-
physical and active
,A researcher is gathering information for a study to determine if adolescents experience depression
more than middle-aged adults. The researcher observes and records behavior exhibited by both groups.
Which research design does this exemplify? - answ✔️✔️-Descriptive research
Between 2 and 4 years of age, children are learning - answ✔️✔️-the cause and consequences of
feelings.
During the 20th century, life expectancy increased _________ years. - answ✔️✔️-30
__________ is Piaget's first stage of moral development in which rules are conceived of as unchangeable
properties of the world. - answ✔️✔️-Heteronomous morality
Unusual occurrences that have a major impact on an individual's life and are usually not applicable to
many people are called - answ✔️✔️-non-normative life events.
__________ is a set of expectations that prescribe how females or males should think, act, and feel. -
answ✔️✔️-Gender role
Baltes and his colleagues assert that the mastery of life often involves conflicts and competition among
three goals of human development: - answ✔️✔️-growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss.
Which statement best describes the explanation given by the social cognitive theory of gender? -
answ✔️✔️-Children learn expected gender behaviors through rewards and punishments, as well as
through observation and imitation of models.
Which statement characterizes the debate about the nature-nurture issue? - answ✔️✔️-It involves
the extent to which heredity and the environment influence development.
__________ parenting involves encouraging children to be independent, placing limits and controls on
their actions while allowing verbal exchange. - answ✔️✔️-Authoritative
, In 2006, _____ of U.S. children were living in families below the poverty line. - answ✔️✔️-17.4%
__________ play involves the repetition of behavior when new skills are being learned. - answ✔️✔️-
Practice
The Minnesota Family Investment Program was designed to - answ✔️✔️-primarily influence the
behavior of adults, through employment.
The highest incidence of game playing occurs - answ✔️✔️-between ages 10 and 12.
A child who treats peers with aggression elicits hostility from those peers.
What type of heredity environment correlation does this exemplify? - answ✔️✔️-Evocative genotype-
environment correlation
The process we refer to when we speak of changes in an individual's thought, intelligence, and language
is the - answ✔️✔️-cognitive process.
Life-span developmentalists who focus on adult development and aging describe life-span development
in terms of four "ages." The third age comprises those ___________ years of age. - answ✔️✔️-60-79
A person's age in terms of his or her physical health is called - answ✔️✔️-biological age
Freud is associated with which theoretical perspective? - answ✔️✔️-psychoanalytic
During which period of prenatal development do the connections form between neurons? -
answ✔️✔️-Fetal period
What is the correct sequence of stages in Freud's personality theory of development? - answ✔️✔️-
oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
Development Across the
Lifespan-WGU latest
update 2025 A + GRADED
EXAM
Which theory of human development was proposed by Jean Piaget? - answ✔️✔️-Cognitive
developmental theory
When psychologists speak of life-span development, they are referring to an approach that emphasizes -
answ✔️✔️-the periods of the human life span involving both growth and decline
Erikson's stage for children in early childhood is - answ✔️✔️-initiative vs. guilt
The upper boundary of the human life span has historically been, and continues to be, __________
years. - answ✔️✔️-122
In early childhood, children tend to think of themselves in terms of a(n) __________ self. - answ✔️✔️-
physical and active
,A researcher is gathering information for a study to determine if adolescents experience depression
more than middle-aged adults. The researcher observes and records behavior exhibited by both groups.
Which research design does this exemplify? - answ✔️✔️-Descriptive research
Between 2 and 4 years of age, children are learning - answ✔️✔️-the cause and consequences of
feelings.
During the 20th century, life expectancy increased _________ years. - answ✔️✔️-30
__________ is Piaget's first stage of moral development in which rules are conceived of as unchangeable
properties of the world. - answ✔️✔️-Heteronomous morality
Unusual occurrences that have a major impact on an individual's life and are usually not applicable to
many people are called - answ✔️✔️-non-normative life events.
__________ is a set of expectations that prescribe how females or males should think, act, and feel. -
answ✔️✔️-Gender role
Baltes and his colleagues assert that the mastery of life often involves conflicts and competition among
three goals of human development: - answ✔️✔️-growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss.
Which statement best describes the explanation given by the social cognitive theory of gender? -
answ✔️✔️-Children learn expected gender behaviors through rewards and punishments, as well as
through observation and imitation of models.
Which statement characterizes the debate about the nature-nurture issue? - answ✔️✔️-It involves
the extent to which heredity and the environment influence development.
__________ parenting involves encouraging children to be independent, placing limits and controls on
their actions while allowing verbal exchange. - answ✔️✔️-Authoritative
, In 2006, _____ of U.S. children were living in families below the poverty line. - answ✔️✔️-17.4%
__________ play involves the repetition of behavior when new skills are being learned. - answ✔️✔️-
Practice
The Minnesota Family Investment Program was designed to - answ✔️✔️-primarily influence the
behavior of adults, through employment.
The highest incidence of game playing occurs - answ✔️✔️-between ages 10 and 12.
A child who treats peers with aggression elicits hostility from those peers.
What type of heredity environment correlation does this exemplify? - answ✔️✔️-Evocative genotype-
environment correlation
The process we refer to when we speak of changes in an individual's thought, intelligence, and language
is the - answ✔️✔️-cognitive process.
Life-span developmentalists who focus on adult development and aging describe life-span development
in terms of four "ages." The third age comprises those ___________ years of age. - answ✔️✔️-60-79
A person's age in terms of his or her physical health is called - answ✔️✔️-biological age
Freud is associated with which theoretical perspective? - answ✔️✔️-psychoanalytic
During which period of prenatal development do the connections form between neurons? -
answ✔️✔️-Fetal period
What is the correct sequence of stages in Freud's personality theory of development? - answ✔️✔️-
oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
