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what is the life span of human development - Answer: the ways in which people grow, change
and stay the same throughout their lives, from conception to death
phases of life (life span development psychology) - Answer: prenatal (conception to birth)
infancy and toddlerhood (birth to 2 years)
early childhood (2 to 6 years)
middle childhood (6 to 11 years)
adolescence ( 11 to 18 years)
early adulthood (18 to 40 years)
middle adulthood (40-65 years)
later adulthood( 65 and beyond)
death
what are the conceptions of age - Answer: chronological age
biological age
psychological age
social age
what are bales life span approach: key principles - Answer: development is life long
,development is multidimensional
development is multidirectional
development shows plasticity
development is multidisciplinary
impiratmce of biology and culture change
development involves changing allocation of resources
influence of content
bates life span approach- development is lifelong - Answer: developmental change occurs
throughout the life span; each age period is affected by what happened before and will affect
later development
bates life span approach- development is multidimensional - Answer: development entails
changes in many areas of development:
- physical development
- cognitive development
- socioeconomic development
bates life span approach- development is multidirectional - Answer: development consisting of
gains and losses & growth and decline
bates life span approach- development is plastic - Answer: development is malleable or
changeable
examples of plastic development - Answer: the brain and body can compensate for injury
bates life span approach- development is multidisciplinary - Answer: the contributions of many
disciplines are needed to understand how people grow, think, and interact with the world
, importance of biology and culture change across life span-biological influences - Answer:
greatest earlier in life span (sensory,abilities , coordination, strength)
importance of biology and culture change across life span-influence of culture - Answer:
increases over the life span and may compensate fro earlier weakness (education technology
and relationships)
treu or false - development involves changing allocation of resources - Answer: true
people use their resources to focus on.. - Answer: growing, maintaining and coping with loss
what are types of typical resources? - Answer: time, strength, intelligence, skills, money,
relationships
context - Answer: when and where a person develops
context includes - Answer: physical and social enviorments, neighborhood, country, culture
cohort - Answer: a generation of people born at the same time
history graded normative influence - Answer: wars, epidemics, economic shifts; events shaped
attitudes of a historical generation
ex; history generation and cohort
age-graded normative influences - Answer: event tied to chronological age; similar or typical for
a specific age
ex; maturational and social