Lifespan Development (Exam #1 Chapters 1 and 2)CORRECT 100%
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Lifespan Development
How is lifespan development defined? - ANSWER development throughout childhood and adulthood
What is the difference between the traditional and lifespan views of development? - ANSWER ______ view:
development throughout infancy, childhood and adolescence. No change in adulthood or old age
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Lifespan Development (Exam #1 Chapters 1 and
2)CORRECT 100%
How is lifespan development defined? - ANSWER development throughout childhood and adulthood
What is the difference between the traditional and lifespan views of development? - ANSWER ______
view:
development throughout infancy, childhood and adolescence. No change in adulthood or old age
______ view:
development throughout childhood and adulthood
Why have we seen an increase in life expectancy during the 20th century? - ANSWER better technology
and medicine
What are the three domains of development? - ANSWER Physical/Biological
Cognitive
Social/Socioemotional
Besides chronological age what the other conceptions of age? - ANSWER Biological: age in terms of
biological health/vital organ functioning
Psychological: individual's adaptive capacities; ability to think clearly/flexibility
Social: connectedness with others and social roles and expectations related to one's age
What are the three development issues? - ANSWER nature vs nurture
stability and change
continuity and discontinuity
, What is the psychoanalytic perspective on development? Know the general viewpoint of the
psychoanalysts as well as the specific theories proposed by Freud and Erikson. (Note: you do not have to
know their stages in detail.) - ANSWER Psychoanalytic theories:
Describe development in terms of unconscious emotional processes
Freud Psychosexual Theory:
Five stages of psychosexual development - how we resolve each stages dictate personality
Erikson Psychosocial Theory:
Motivation for human behavior is social and reflects a desire to affiliate with others
Occurs throughout the lifespan
Eight stages - each represents a development "crisis"
Explain Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, including each individual system (with examples). -
ANSWER Ecology: the relationship between groups of living things and their environments
Emphasis here is on environment systems
microsystem: most immediate to us, palce whrer we experience our daily lives
mesosystem: "middle" interconnection between microsystem Ex: homelife
exosystem: societal institutions that affect is (development)
macrosystem: furthest away broad system of Cultural Beliefs and values
What are the five methods of collecting data in lifespan development? - ANSWER Observation:
systematic observations and recordings of behavior
Laboratory: controlling setting, but unnatural
Survey: usually closed-ended questions, risk of desirability
Interviews: usually open-ended questions, also risk of social desirability
Standardized testing: uniform procedures for administration and scoring, allow comparisons to
norms/standards
Case study: in-depth look at a single individual or situation, not generalizable
Physiological measures: measures of a body, such as hormone levels, brain imaging, etc.
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