Psych 289 UNL Exam 1 Questions With
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What is lifespan development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A field of study that
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examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior throughout the
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lifespan. |
Lifelong, multidimensional and multidirectional, highly plastic, and affected by
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multiple interacting forces. | |
A pattern of change involving growth and decline, beginning at conception and
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lasting until death.| |
Our brains rate of processing slows as we get older.
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Physical limitations are still a part of development.
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What is the nature-nurture debate and why are developmentalists concerned
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with this issue? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-This debate explained by: which is more
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important, genetic or environmental factors. | | | | |
Nature means the hereditary information that we receive from our parents at the
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moment of conception. By nurture, we mean the complex forces of the physical
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and social world that influence our biological makeup and psychological
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experiences before and after birth. | | | |
,Genetics and Environment interact to determine a given characteristic, behavior
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or pattern of development.
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How much of a given characteristic behavior, or pattern of development is
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determined by genetic influences and how much by environmental influences.
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Relative influence of nature and nurture.
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In most areas this isn't the debate anymore. There are very few times where
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neither of these things play a large role.
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How nature and nurture influence development and how they interact in the new
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question.
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Stress is on the process rather than importance of one or the other.
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What is the "discontinuity" versus "continuity" debate? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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This is a debate between a process of gradually augmenting the same types of
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skills that were there to being with.. and a process in which new ways of
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understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times. | | | | | | | | |
is dev. a smooth progression throughout the lifespan (cont.) or is it a series of
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abrupt shifts. (disc.) | |
Smooth- continuous gradual change. Speed of processing gets faster over
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development.
, What is the universal versus context-specific development debate? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Is there major dev. Differences across cultures. | | | | | | |
Some researchers believe that it is generalized while some believe that it is
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different among cultures. | |
Is there only one developmental path or many?
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In some cultures infants will walk sooner than others- very different dev. paths.
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What are age-graded, history-graded, and nonnormative influences? Can you give
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an example of each? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Age graded- due to age.
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History graded- related to a specific point in history (9/11) do not effect all ages
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the same. Depending on child during the great depression, it had big influence on
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them once they grew up. Poor nutrition and less money. Teenagers during the
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great depression had a good influence on them because they went to work and
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wanted to help do something. Went further in life as adults.
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-cohort (if you are about the same age you are the same cohort)
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Nonnormative- something that happens to an individual but not the majority.
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Summarize each of the major theoretical perspectives (psychoanalytic,
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behaviorism and social learning, cognitive, ecological, ethology and evolutionary)
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in terms of its focus and how it explains individual development. Which of these
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theories best fits your own view of development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Complete Solutions
What is lifespan development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A field of study that
| | | | | | | | | | |
examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior throughout the
| | | | | | | | | | |
lifespan. |
Lifelong, multidimensional and multidirectional, highly plastic, and affected by
| | | | | | | | |
multiple interacting forces. | |
A pattern of change involving growth and decline, beginning at conception and
| | | | | | | | | | | |
lasting until death.| |
Our brains rate of processing slows as we get older.
| | | | | | | | |
Physical limitations are still a part of development.
| | | | | | |
What is the nature-nurture debate and why are developmentalists concerned
| | | | | | | | | |
with this issue? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-This debate explained by: which is more
| | | | | | | | | | | |
important, genetic or environmental factors. | | | | |
Nature means the hereditary information that we receive from our parents at the
| | | | | | | | | | | |
moment of conception. By nurture, we mean the complex forces of the physical
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
and social world that influence our biological makeup and psychological
| | | | | | | | | |
experiences before and after birth. | | | |
,Genetics and Environment interact to determine a given characteristic, behavior
| | | | | | | | | |
or pattern of development.
| | | |
How much of a given characteristic behavior, or pattern of development is
| | | | | | | | | | | |
determined by genetic influences and how much by environmental influences.
| | | | | | | | |
Relative influence of nature and nurture.
| | | | |
In most areas this isn't the debate anymore. There are very few times where
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
neither of these things play a large role.
| | | | | | | |
How nature and nurture influence development and how they interact in the new
| | | | | | | | | | | |
question.
|
Stress is on the process rather than importance of one or the other.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
What is the "discontinuity" versus "continuity" debate? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | |
This is a debate between a process of gradually augmenting the same types of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
skills that were there to being with.. and a process in which new ways of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times. | | | | | | | | |
is dev. a smooth progression throughout the lifespan (cont.) or is it a series of
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
abrupt shifts. (disc.) | |
Smooth- continuous gradual change. Speed of processing gets faster over
| | | | | | | | | |
development.
, What is the universal versus context-specific development debate? - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Is there major dev. Differences across cultures. | | | | | | |
Some researchers believe that it is generalized while some believe that it is
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
different among cultures. | |
Is there only one developmental path or many?
| | | | | | |
In some cultures infants will walk sooner than others- very different dev. paths.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
What are age-graded, history-graded, and nonnormative influences? Can you give
| | | | | | | | |
an example of each? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Age graded- due to age.
| | | | | | | | | | |
History graded- related to a specific point in history (9/11) do not effect all ages
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
the same. Depending on child during the great depression, it had big influence on
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
them once they grew up. Poor nutrition and less money. Teenagers during the
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
great depression had a good influence on them because they went to work and
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
wanted to help do something. Went further in life as adults.
| | | | | | | | | |
-cohort (if you are about the same age you are the same cohort)
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Nonnormative- something that happens to an individual but not the majority.
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Summarize each of the major theoretical perspectives (psychoanalytic,
| | | | | | | |
behaviorism and social learning, cognitive, ecological, ethology and evolutionary)
| | | | | | | | |
in terms of its focus and how it explains individual development. Which of these
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
theories best fits your own view of development? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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