Lifespan human development - ANSWER an approach to studying human development that examines ways in which individuals grow, change, and stay the same throughout their lives, from conception to death
Physical development - ANSWER body maturation, including body size, proportion, appearance, healt...
Lifespan human development - ANSWER an approach to studying human development that examines
ways in which individuals grow, change, and stay the same throughout their lives, from conception to
death
Physical development - ANSWER body maturation, including body size, proportion, appearance, health,
and perceptual abilities
Cognitive development - ANSWER maturation of mental processes and tools individuals use to obtain
knowledge, think, and solve problems
Socioemotional development - ANSWER maturation of social and emotional functioning, which includes
changes in personality, emotions, personal perceptions, social skills, and interpersonal relationships
Plasticity - ANSWER a characteristic of development that refers to malleability, or openness to change in
response to experience
Resilience - ANSWER the ability to adapt to serious adversity
Context - ANSWER unique conditions in which a person develops, including aspects of the physical and
social environment such as family, neighborhood, culture, and historical time period
Cohort - ANSWER a generation of people born at the same time, influenced by the same historical and
cultural conditions
Culture - ANSWER a set of customs, knowledge, attitudes, and values shared by a group of people and
learned through interactions with group members
, Continuous development - ANSWER the view that development consists of gradual cumulative changes
in existing skills and capacities
Discontinuous development - ANSWER the view that growth entails abrupt transformations in abilities
and capacities in which new ways of interacting with the world emerge
Reciprocal determinism - ANSWER a perspective positing that individuals and the environment interact
and influence each other
Cognitive-developmental perspective - ANSWER a perspective posited by Piaget that views individuals as
active explorers of their world, learning by interacting with the world around them and describes
cognitive development as progressing through stages
Schema - ANSWER a mental representation, such as concepts, ideas, and ways of interacting with the
world
Information processing theory - ANSWER a perspective that uses a computer analogy to describe how
the mind receives information and manipulates, stores, recalls and uses it to solve problems
Sociocultural theory - ANSWER Vygotsky's perspective that individuals acquire culturally relevant ways of
thinking through social interactions with members of their culture
Bioecological systems theory - ANSWER a theory introduced by Brofenbrenner that emphasizes the role
of context in development, positing that contexts are organized into a series of systems in which
individuals are embedded and that interact with one another and the person to influence development
Microsystem - ANSWER in bioecological systems theory, the innermost level of context, which includes
an individual's immediate physical and social environment
Mesosystem - ANSWER in bioecological systems theory, social settings in which an individual does not
participate but has an indirect influence on development
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