Lifespan Development Psychology Exam 1, Chapters 1-4 solved 100%

Lifespan Development Psychology Exam 1, Chapters 1-4 Development - ANSWER systematic changes and continuities in the individual that occur between conception and death Physical development - ANSWER growth of the body and its organs, functioning of physiological systems include brain, physical signs of aging, changes in motor abilities, etc Cognitive development - ANSWER changes and continuities in perception, language, learning, memory, problem solving, and other mental processes psychosocial development - ANSWER changes in personal and interpersonal aspects of development, such as motives, emotions, personality traits, interpersonal skills, and relationships, and roles played in the family and in the larger society Growth - ANSWER physical changes that occur from conception to maturity Biological aging - ANSWER deterioration of organisms that leads inevitably to their death. Biologically speaking, development does involve growth in early life, stability in early/middle adulthood, and decline associated with now-accumalted effects of aging in later life Aging - ANSWER involves more than biological aging, refers to a range of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes, positive and negative, in mature organism. Development involves gains, losses, neutral changes, and continuities in each phase of the life span, growth and again part of it Emerging adulthood - ANSWER transitional period between adolescence and full fledged adulthood that extends from age 18-25 *after WWII, started taking youth longer to get to adulthood and its roles/responsibilities than it had in earlier eras as more people began to attend college in large numbers to prepare for work/postpone marriage Arnett says people in Emerging Adulthood... - ANSWER -explore identities -lead unstable lives filled with job changes/new relationships -self-focused, free of obligations to other, free to focus on own psychological needs -feel in-between- adult like in some ways but not others -believe they have limitless possibilities ahead Prenatal period - ANSWER conception to birth infancy - ANSWER first 2 years of life preschool period - ANSWER 2-5/6 years middle childhood - ANSWER 6-10