LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● Cross-sectional Approach
Answer: A research strategy in which individuals of different ages are
compared simultaneously.
●● Development
Answer: Pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and
continues through the human life span.
●● Ethology
Answer: Study of behavior as it is strongly influenced by biology, tied to
evolution, and characterized by critical or sensitive periods.
●● Information-processing theory
Answer: Emphasizes that individuals manipulate information, monitor it,
and strategize about it.
●● Life-saving perspective
,Answer: The perspective thay development t is lifelong,
multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and
contextual; it involves growth, maintenance, and regulation.
●● Longitudinal Approach
Answer: A research strategy in which the same individuals are studied
repeatedly over a period of time, usually several years or more.
●● Nature-nurture Isssue
Answer: Refers to the debate about whether development is primarily
influenced by what we are born with or by our environmental
experiences as we grow.
●● Psychoanalytic Theory
Answer: Describes development as primarily unconscious and heavily
colored by emotion.
●● Social Cognitive Theory
Answer: Emphasizes behavior, environment, and cognition as the key
factors in development.
●● Traditional Approach to life-saving perspective
Answer: Emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence, little
to no change in adulthood, and decline in old age.
, ●● Life-saving approach to development
Answer: Emphasizes developmental change throughout adulthood as
well as childhood.
●● Human Life Span
Answer: Based on oldest age documented --122 yrs.
●● Life expectancy
Answer: Average number of years that a person born in a particular year
can expect to live.
INCREASED By 30 years in the 20th century.
●● Life-saving perspective views development as?
Answer: Lifelong
Multidimensional
Multidirectional
Plastic
Multidisciplinary
Contexual
●● Normative Age-graded Influences
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● Cross-sectional Approach
Answer: A research strategy in which individuals of different ages are
compared simultaneously.
●● Development
Answer: Pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and
continues through the human life span.
●● Ethology
Answer: Study of behavior as it is strongly influenced by biology, tied to
evolution, and characterized by critical or sensitive periods.
●● Information-processing theory
Answer: Emphasizes that individuals manipulate information, monitor it,
and strategize about it.
●● Life-saving perspective
,Answer: The perspective thay development t is lifelong,
multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and
contextual; it involves growth, maintenance, and regulation.
●● Longitudinal Approach
Answer: A research strategy in which the same individuals are studied
repeatedly over a period of time, usually several years or more.
●● Nature-nurture Isssue
Answer: Refers to the debate about whether development is primarily
influenced by what we are born with or by our environmental
experiences as we grow.
●● Psychoanalytic Theory
Answer: Describes development as primarily unconscious and heavily
colored by emotion.
●● Social Cognitive Theory
Answer: Emphasizes behavior, environment, and cognition as the key
factors in development.
●● Traditional Approach to life-saving perspective
Answer: Emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence, little
to no change in adulthood, and decline in old age.
, ●● Life-saving approach to development
Answer: Emphasizes developmental change throughout adulthood as
well as childhood.
●● Human Life Span
Answer: Based on oldest age documented --122 yrs.
●● Life expectancy
Answer: Average number of years that a person born in a particular year
can expect to live.
INCREASED By 30 years in the 20th century.
●● Life-saving perspective views development as?
Answer: Lifelong
Multidimensional
Multidirectional
Plastic
Multidisciplinary
Contexual
●● Normative Age-graded Influences
