Developmental Psychology: Lifespan -
EXAM 1 Questions and All Correct
Answers 2025-2026 Edition.
Lifespan Development - Answer Field of study that examines patterns of growth, change,
and stability in behavior throughout the lifespan.
The Scope of the Field: Major Topical Areas - Answer 1. Personality & social development
2. Physical development
3. Cognitive development
1. Personality & social development - Answer Emphasizes enduring characteristics that
differentiate one person from another, and how interactions with others and social relationships
grow and change over the lifetime
2. Physical development - Answer Emphasizes how brain, nervous system, muscles, sensory
capabilities, needs for food, drink, and sleep affect behavior
3. Cognitive development - Answer Emphasizes intellectual abilities, including learning,
memory, problem solving, and intelligence
Cohort - Answer a group of people born at/ around the same time, in the same place
Theory - Answer broad, organized explanations and predictions concerning phenomena of
interest
Table 1-3 Freud's and Erikson's Theories - Answer Look at print out
Psychodynamic Perspective - Answer the approach stating that behavior is motivated by
inner forces, memories, and conflicts that are generally beyond people's awareness and control
Psychoanalytic theory - Answer the theory proposed by Frued that suggests that
unconscious forces act to determine personality and behavior
, Psychosocial Develpment - Answer the approach that encompasses changed in our
interactions with and understandings of one another, as well as in our knowledge and
understanding of ourselves and members of society
Behavioral Perspective - Answer the approach suggesting that the keys to understanding
development are observable behavior and outside stimuli in the environment
Theory Map: Freud - Answer Perspective: Psychodynamic
Theory: Psychoanalytic Theory
Theorist: Freud
What develops: Focus on inner person, unconscious forces act to determine personality and
behavior
How development proceeds: Behavior motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts
Principles: Personality has three aspects-id, ego, and superego/ Psychosexual development
involves series of stages-oral, anal, phallic, genital
Other key terms: Pleasure principle, reality principle, fixation
Theory Map: Erikson - Answer Perspective: Psychodynamic
Theory: Psychosocial Theory
Theorist: Erikson
Primary Focus:Focus on social interaction with others
How development proceeds: Development occurs through changes in interactions with and
understanding of others and in self knowledge and understanding of members of society
Principles: Psychosocial development involves eight distinct, fixed, universal stages/ Each stage
presents crisis/conflict to be resolved; growth and change are lifelong
Other key terms: trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry
vs. inferiority, identity vs. role diffusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, ego-
integrity vs. despair
Theory Map: John B. Watson - Answer Perspective: Behavioral
Theorist: John B. Watson
What Develops: Focus on observable behavior and outside environmental stimuli
How development proceeds: Behavior is result of continuing exposure to specific environmental
factors; developmental change is quantitative
EXAM 1 Questions and All Correct
Answers 2025-2026 Edition.
Lifespan Development - Answer Field of study that examines patterns of growth, change,
and stability in behavior throughout the lifespan.
The Scope of the Field: Major Topical Areas - Answer 1. Personality & social development
2. Physical development
3. Cognitive development
1. Personality & social development - Answer Emphasizes enduring characteristics that
differentiate one person from another, and how interactions with others and social relationships
grow and change over the lifetime
2. Physical development - Answer Emphasizes how brain, nervous system, muscles, sensory
capabilities, needs for food, drink, and sleep affect behavior
3. Cognitive development - Answer Emphasizes intellectual abilities, including learning,
memory, problem solving, and intelligence
Cohort - Answer a group of people born at/ around the same time, in the same place
Theory - Answer broad, organized explanations and predictions concerning phenomena of
interest
Table 1-3 Freud's and Erikson's Theories - Answer Look at print out
Psychodynamic Perspective - Answer the approach stating that behavior is motivated by
inner forces, memories, and conflicts that are generally beyond people's awareness and control
Psychoanalytic theory - Answer the theory proposed by Frued that suggests that
unconscious forces act to determine personality and behavior
, Psychosocial Develpment - Answer the approach that encompasses changed in our
interactions with and understandings of one another, as well as in our knowledge and
understanding of ourselves and members of society
Behavioral Perspective - Answer the approach suggesting that the keys to understanding
development are observable behavior and outside stimuli in the environment
Theory Map: Freud - Answer Perspective: Psychodynamic
Theory: Psychoanalytic Theory
Theorist: Freud
What develops: Focus on inner person, unconscious forces act to determine personality and
behavior
How development proceeds: Behavior motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts
Principles: Personality has three aspects-id, ego, and superego/ Psychosexual development
involves series of stages-oral, anal, phallic, genital
Other key terms: Pleasure principle, reality principle, fixation
Theory Map: Erikson - Answer Perspective: Psychodynamic
Theory: Psychosocial Theory
Theorist: Erikson
Primary Focus:Focus on social interaction with others
How development proceeds: Development occurs through changes in interactions with and
understanding of others and in self knowledge and understanding of members of society
Principles: Psychosocial development involves eight distinct, fixed, universal stages/ Each stage
presents crisis/conflict to be resolved; growth and change are lifelong
Other key terms: trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry
vs. inferiority, identity vs. role diffusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, ego-
integrity vs. despair
Theory Map: John B. Watson - Answer Perspective: Behavioral
Theorist: John B. Watson
What Develops: Focus on observable behavior and outside environmental stimuli
How development proceeds: Behavior is result of continuing exposure to specific environmental
factors; developmental change is quantitative
