Portage Learning PSYC 140 M1 2025-2026 Questions with Correct
Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What is lifespan development?
Answer: The study of physical, social, cognitive & emotional changes from conception until death.
Question 2: What are the 4 key terms to de- scribe lifespan development?
Answer: 1. Lifelong 2. Multidirectional 3. Multidisciplinary 4. Multidimensional
Question 3: Define aging vs growth
Answer: Kids grow & adults age. Aging is the process of becoming old, growth implies physical change.
Question 4: Dimensions of lifespan develop- ment
Answer: 1. Biological 2. Social 3. Emotional 4. Cognitive + 5. Moral
Question 5: Maturation has to do with...
Answer: Something becoming more developed & more advanced
Question 6: Maturation can happen in which dimensions?
Answer: Physical, emotional, cognitive
Question 7: What are the main controversies in 1. lifespan development?
Answer: Nature vs Nurture 2. Continuity vs Discontinuity
Question 8: List the names of the 10 major the- 1. Psychosexual ories & theorists covered in M1
Answer: Stages of Development - Sigmund Freud 2. Psychosocial Stages of Development - Erik Erikson 3.
Classical Conditioning - Ivan Pavlov 4. Operant Conditioning - B.F. Skinner 5. Social Learning - Albert
Bandura 6. Cognitive Stages of Development - Jean Piaget 7. Information Processing Theory 8. Ethological
Theories - Konrad Lorenz 9. Sociocultural Theories - Lev Vygotsky 10. Bronfenbrenner's Ecological
Theory - Urie Bronfen- brenner
Question 9: What are the three parts of the personality according to Sigmund Freud?
(psychodynamic)
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Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What is lifespan development?
Answer: The study of physical, social, cognitive & emotional changes from conception until death.
Question 2: What are the 4 key terms to de- scribe lifespan development?
Answer: 1. Lifelong 2. Multidirectional 3. Multidisciplinary 4. Multidimensional
Question 3: Define aging vs growth
Answer: Kids grow & adults age. Aging is the process of becoming old, growth implies physical change.
Question 4: Dimensions of lifespan develop- ment
Answer: 1. Biological 2. Social 3. Emotional 4. Cognitive + 5. Moral
Question 5: Maturation has to do with...
Answer: Something becoming more developed & more advanced
Question 6: Maturation can happen in which dimensions?
Answer: Physical, emotional, cognitive
Question 7: What are the main controversies in 1. lifespan development?
Answer: Nature vs Nurture 2. Continuity vs Discontinuity
Question 8: List the names of the 10 major the- 1. Psychosexual ories & theorists covered in M1
Answer: Stages of Development - Sigmund Freud 2. Psychosocial Stages of Development - Erik Erikson 3.
Classical Conditioning - Ivan Pavlov 4. Operant Conditioning - B.F. Skinner 5. Social Learning - Albert
Bandura 6. Cognitive Stages of Development - Jean Piaget 7. Information Processing Theory 8. Ethological
Theories - Konrad Lorenz 9. Sociocultural Theories - Lev Vygotsky 10. Bronfenbrenner's Ecological
Theory - Urie Bronfen- brenner
Question 9: What are the three parts of the personality according to Sigmund Freud?
(psychodynamic)
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