DEP3053 EXAM 1 (CHAPTERS 1-5) ACCURATE STUDY
GUIDE
Life-span development - Answers - Systematic changes and continuities in the
individual that occur between conception and death.
Prenatal period - Answers - conception to birth
Infancy - Answers - birth to 18-24 months
Early childhood - Answers - 3-5 years
Middle and late childhood - Answers - 6-10/11 years
Adolescence - Answers - 10-12 to 18-21 years
Early adulthood - Answers - 20s and 30s
Middle adulthood - Answers - 40s and 50s
Late adulthood - Answers - 60s-70s to death
Three types/processes of development - Answers - Biological/Physical
Cognitive
Psychosocial
Emerging adulthood - Answers - Recent addition to life span
-Identity exploration
−Lead unstable lives
-Self-focused
−Feel in between
−Belief in limitless possibilities
Socioeconomic status (SES) - Answers - Standing in society based on occupational
prestige, education, and income
Social clock - Answers - Person's sense of when things should be done and when they
are ahead of or behind the schedule dictated by age norms
Rite of passage - Answers - Ritual that marks a person's "passage" from one status to
another.
Ex: bat mitzvahs (Jewish), Quinceanera (Hispanic American girls)
GUIDE
Life-span development - Answers - Systematic changes and continuities in the
individual that occur between conception and death.
Prenatal period - Answers - conception to birth
Infancy - Answers - birth to 18-24 months
Early childhood - Answers - 3-5 years
Middle and late childhood - Answers - 6-10/11 years
Adolescence - Answers - 10-12 to 18-21 years
Early adulthood - Answers - 20s and 30s
Middle adulthood - Answers - 40s and 50s
Late adulthood - Answers - 60s-70s to death
Three types/processes of development - Answers - Biological/Physical
Cognitive
Psychosocial
Emerging adulthood - Answers - Recent addition to life span
-Identity exploration
−Lead unstable lives
-Self-focused
−Feel in between
−Belief in limitless possibilities
Socioeconomic status (SES) - Answers - Standing in society based on occupational
prestige, education, and income
Social clock - Answers - Person's sense of when things should be done and when they
are ahead of or behind the schedule dictated by age norms
Rite of passage - Answers - Ritual that marks a person's "passage" from one status to
another.
Ex: bat mitzvahs (Jewish), Quinceanera (Hispanic American girls)
