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Lifespan human development - ANSWERan 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 - ANSWERbody maturation, including body size, proportion, appearance, health,...

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Lifespan Development Exam 1
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Lifespan human development - ANSWERan 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 - ANSWERbody maturation, including body size, proportion, appearance,
health, and perceptual abilities



Cognitive development - ANSWERmaturation of mental processes and tools individuals use to obtain
knowledge, think, and solve problems



Socioemotional development - ANSWERmaturation of social and emotional functioning, which
includes changes in personality, emotions, personal perceptions, social skills, and interpersonal
relationships



Plasticity - ANSWERa characteristic of development that refers to malleability, or openness to change
in response to experience



Resilience - ANSWERthe ability to adapt to serious adversity



Context - ANSWERunique conditions in which a person develops, including aspects of the physical
and social environment such as family, neighborhood, culture, and historical time period



Cohort - ANSWERa generation of people born at the same time, influenced by the same historical
and cultural conditions



Culture - ANSWERa set of customs, knowledge, attitudes, and values shared by a group of people and
learned through interactions with group members



Continuous development - ANSWERthe view that development consists of gradual cumulative
changes in existing skills and capacities

, Discontinuous development - ANSWERthe view that growth entails abrupt transformations in
abilities and capacities in which new ways of interacting with the world emerge



Nature-nurture issue - ANSWERa debate within the field of human development regarding whether
development is caused by nature (genetics or heredity) or nurture (the physical and social
environment)



Theory - ANSWERan organized set of observations to describe, explain, and predict a phenomenon



Hypothesis - ANSWERa proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested



Psychoanalytic theory - ANSWERa perspective introduced by Freud that development and behavior is
stagelike and influenced by inner drives, memories, and conflicts of which an individual is unaware
and cannot control



Behaviorism - ANSWERa theoretical approach that studies how observable behavior is controlled by
the physical and social environment through conditioning



Classical conditioning - ANSWERa form of learning in which an environmental stimulus becomes
associated with stimuli that elicit reflex responses



Operant conditioning - ANSWERa form of learning in which behavior increases or decreases based on
environmental consequences



Reinforcement - ANSWERin operant conditioning, the process by which a behavior is followed by a
desirable outcome increases the likelihood of a response



Punishment - ANSWERin operant conditioning, the process in which a behavior is followed by an
aversive or unpleasant outcome that decreases the likelihood of a response



Social learning theory - ANSWERan approach that emphasizes the role of modeling and observational
learning over people's behavior in addition to reinforcement and punishment



Observational learning - ANSWERlearning that occurs by watching and imitating models, as posited
by social learning theory

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