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Lifespan development the field of study that examines patterns of growth, change & stability in behavior that occur thru entire lifespan What are the four major topical areas? physical, cognitive, personality & social dev. Cultural factors & developmental diversity broad differences - social cons...

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FAD 3220 EXAM 1 (Jenna Scott FSU)
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Lifespan development ✅the field of study that examines patterns of growth, change &
stability in behavior that occur thru entire lifespan

What are the four major topical areas? ✅physical, cognitive, personality & social dev.

Cultural factors & developmental diversity ✅broad differences - social constructions
that are arbitrary & culturally defined

Finer differences - ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, gender

Ethnicity ✅religion, lang & culture

Race ✅biological concept, physical & structural

Critical period ✅time during dev. When an event has its greatest consquences & the
presence of certain kinds of environmetal stimuli are necessary for development to
proceed normally

Sensitive period ✅point in dev when organisms are suseptible to certain kinds of
stimuli around them but absence doesnt always cause irreversible effects

Nonhuman animal studies ✅controls genetics and environment
Offers substantial opportunities , but cannot guarantee generalization to humans

Human studies ✅-includes adoption studies; twin studies; family studies; non-related
people of similar background studies
-cannot control genetic background or human environments

Nature ✅traits, abilities & capacities are are inherited from ones parents -
encompasses any factor that is produced by the predetermined unfolding of genetic
information - a process known as maturation.

Nurture ✅environmental influences that shape behavior, can be biological, social or
societal - such as socioeconomic factors.

Cohort ✅group of people born around the same time in the same place

, Continuous and discontinuous ✅grady believes that human development occurs in
small, measurable amounts. His sister andrea disagrees and suggests that human
development is more distinct and steplike. Their argument is most reflective of the
______________ issue.

Nature, nurture and intelligence ✅closer genetic link = greater correspondence of
overall iq scores

Influences on development ✅sociocultutral- graded
Age-graded
history-graded
Nonnormative life event

History-graded influences ✅biological & environmental influences associated w a
particular historical moment

Continuous change ✅development is gradual w/ achievements @ one level building
on those of previous levels

Discontinous change ✅development occurring in distinct stages, each stage brings
about behavior thats different from the previous

Theory ✅broad explanations and predictions ab phenomena of interest

What are the 6 major theoretical perspectives used? ✅psychodynamic, behavioral,
cognitive, humanistic, contextual & evolutionary

Psychodynamic perspec ✅states behavior is motivated by inner forces, memories &
conflicts that are generally beyond ppl's awareness/control

Freud's psychoanalytic theory ✅unconscious forces act to determine personality &
behavior

Id ✅raw unorganized part of personality present @ birth, represents primitive drivers;
operates according to pleasure principle

Ego ✅rational & reasonable, operates on reality principle

Superego ✅persons conscious, distincts from right & wrong

Freud's psychosexual developement ✅stages that children pass thru where pleasure &
gratification is focused on a particular biological function & body part

Stages in psychosexual dev ✅oral, anal, phallic, genitals

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