Life-Span Development Revision Exam Questions And Answers Graded A+ 2024.

development - Answer the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span traditional approach - Answer emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence, little to no change in adulthood, and decline in old age life-span approach - Answer emphasizes developmental change throughout childhood and adulthood life span - Answer based on oldest age documented Currently 122 years life expectancy - Answer average number of years that a person can expect to live (currently 78 years) Life-Span Perspective views development as: - Answer 1. Lifelong - no age period is dominant 2. multidimensional- biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions 3. multidirectional: dimensions expand and shrink 4. plastic- every individual and every trait within each individual, can be altered at any point in the life span. Change is ongoing, although neither random nor easy is? 5. multidisciplinary- shared by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, and medical researchers 6. contextual : occurs within a setting development - Answer involves growth, maintenance, and regulation of loss, a co-construction of biology, culture, and the individual