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This document contains comprehensive exam material for the course Human Growth and Development. It includes a wide range of key terms, definitions, and major theoretical concepts required for test preparation. Topics span the entire lifespan—from infancy to late adulthood—and cover areas such as developmental theories, biological and cognitive growth, social influences, and major psychological perspectives. Designed to help students prepare efficiently for exams, this file serves as a full glossary-style reference covering all essential concepts in developmental psychology.

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Human Growth and Development Test 1
What Is Prenatal Development? -
☑️ Period of time from conception to birth.

What is infancy? -
☑️ Period of time from birth to 2 years old.

What skills are learned during infancy? -
☑️ highly dependent on their parents, Learn social languages, Learn to Learn.

What is childhood? -
☑️ Ages from 2 to 9-11.

What is the preschool years? -
☑️ Ages 2-5
- Self Sufficient
-Learn letters and numbers
-Play a lot.

What is the Elementary School Years? -
☑️ Ages 6-11
-New social environment
-Learn to read and write
-Have expectations

What is adolescence? -
☑️ Ages 9/11-18

What is the middle school years? -
☑️ Ages 9-14
- Rapid physical changes
-More complex

What is the high school years? -
☑️ Ages 14-18
-Jobs
-Dating
-Transition from childhood to adulthood

What is emerging adult hood? -
☑️ Ages 18-mid/late 20's
-Starting a career
-Intimate relationship.

What is early adulthood? -
☑️ Ages mid/ late 20's to 40
-Starting a family
-stable occupation
-long term relationship

, What is middle adulthood? -
☑️ Ages 40-65
-Reflecting on their life
-Physical decline
-Bitter or happy

What is late adulthood? -
☑️ Ages 65-DEATH
-Death
Physical decline
-reflect on life

What is the Cognitive Developmental Theory? -
☑️ 'Higher" mental development which includes intelligence, comprehension, memory,
reasoning, and problem solving.

What is the contributions to the Cognitive Developmental Theory? -
☑️ mental Development

What is the psychoanalytic theory? -
☑️ Stages from infancy to childhood/ Interaction between the person's biological drives and
the environment.

What are the contributions to the psychoanalytic theory? -
☑️ Understanding of Human Sexuality

What is the Psychosocial stages of development? -
☑️ Interaction between the person and the environment. Which includes social familial,
culture, and historical factors.

Contributions to the Psychosocial stages of development? -
☑️ mom, baby, society, culture, and history.

What is self theory? -
☑️ the way a person views himself/herself in relation to feedback that they receive from
others.

What is attachment theory? -
☑️ The relationship between an infant and the primary caregiver. this has long lasting affects
which include psychological and physical development.

What are the contributions to the attachment theory? -
☑️ Quality and nature of the relationship between the infant and the mom.

What is behaviorism? -
☑️ The development that occurs within the context of learning.

What is Social Cognitive Theory? -
☑️ behaviors learned from observing and imitating others.

What are the contributions to the Social Cognitive Theory? -

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