Life-Span Development Final (Straighterline) Questions With Complete Solutions

Development correct answer: pattern of change beginning at conception and continuing throughout the life span Ex: growth and decline Life-span perspective correct answer: involves growth, maintenance, and regulation. average life expectancy correct answer: 79 years culture correct answer: interactions, behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a group passed on from generation to generation cross-cultural studies correct answer: comparing aspects of cultures to gain information about their developmental similarities ethnicity correct answer: Based on cultural heritage, nationality characteristics, race, religion, and language socioeconomic status correct answer: grouping of people with similar occupational, educational, and economic characteristics gender correct answer: characteristics of people as males, females, or transgender, and sociocultural challenges social policy correct answer: a national government's course of action designed to promote the welfare of its citizens biological processes correct answer: changes in an individual's physical nature cognitive processes correct answer: changes in an individual's thought, intelligence, and language socioemotional processes correct answer: changes in an individual's relationships, emotions, and personality prenatal period correct answer: conception to birth infancy correct answer: birth to 18 to 24 months early childhood correct answer: 3 to 5 years middle and late childhood correct answer: 6 to 10 or 11 years old