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psych 241 exam 1 wvu | 201 Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide) what is the life span of human development phases of life (life span development psychology) what are the conceptions of age what are bales life span approach: key principles bates life span approach- development is lifelong ...

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Answers(A+ Solution guide)

1). What is the life span of human development

 Ans: the ways in which people grow, change and stay the same throughout their lives,
from conception to death

2). Phases of life (life span development psychology)

 Ans: 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

3). What are the conceptions of age

 Ans: chronological age
biological age
psychological age
social age

4). What are bales life span approach: key principles

 Ans: 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

5). Bates life span approach- development is lifelong

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,  Ans: developmental change occurs throughout the life span; each age period is
affected by what happened before and will affect later development

6). Bates life span approach- development is multidimensional

 Ans: development entails changes in many areas of development:
- physical development
- cognitive development
- socioeconomic development

7). Bates life span approach- development is multidirectional

 Ans: development consisting of gains and losses & growth and decline

8). Bates life span approach- development is plastic

 Ans: development is malleable or changeable

9). Examples of plastic development

 Ans: the brain and body can compensate for injury

10). Bates life span approach- development is multidisciplinary

 Ans: the contributions of many disciplines are needed to understand how people
grow, think, and interact with the world

11). Importance of biology and culture change across life span-biological influences

 Ans: greatest earlier in life span (sensory,abilities , coordination, strength)

12). Importance of biology and culture change across life span-influence of culture

 Ans: increases over the life span and may compensate fro earlier weakness
(education technology and relationships)

13). Treu or false - development involves changing allocation of resources

 Ans: true

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, 14). People use their resources to focus on..

 Ans: growing, maintaining and coping with loss

15). What are types of typical resources?

 Ans: time, strength, intelligence, skills, money, relationships

16). Context

 Ans: when and where a person develops

17). Context includes

 Ans: physical and social enviorments, neighborhood, country, culture

18). Cohort

 Ans: a generation of people born at the same time

19). History graded normative influence

 Ans: wars, epidemics, economic shifts; events shaped attitudes of a historical
generation
ex; history generation and cohort

20). Age-graded normative influences

 Ans: event tied to chronological age; similar or typical for a specific age
ex; maturational and social

21). Three types of influence

 Ans: -normative age-graded influences
-normative history graded influence
-non-normative life events

22). Maturational

 Ans: fixed in time

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