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How is lifespan development defined? - ANSWERSdevelopment throughout childhood and adulthood What is the difference between the traditional and lifespan views of development? - ANSWERS______ 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)100% Accurate!!
How is lifespan development defined? - ANSWERSdevelopment throughout childhood and adulthood



What is the difference between the traditional and lifespan views of development? - ANSWERS______
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? - ANSWERSbetter technology
and medicine



What are the three domains of development? - ANSWERSPhysical/Biological

Cognitive

Social/Socioemotional



Besides chronological age what the other conceptions of age? - ANSWERSBiological: 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? - ANSWERSnature 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.) - ANSWERSPsychoanalytic 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"

What is the behaviorist perspective of development? - ANSWERSDevelopment is explained in terms and
behaviors learned through interactions, focus on observable events

Skinner's operant conditioning: consequences of a behavior influence the likelihood of repeat behavior

Also Pavlov and Watson:

Classical conditioning

Work with dogs can also be applied to humans



What is social learning theory? - ANSWERSDevelopment is a function of behavior, environment, and
person/cognitive factors



What is ethological theory? - ANSWERSStress behavior is strongly influenced by biology

Tied to evolution - survival of the fittest



Explain Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, including each individual system (with examples). -
ANSWERSEcology: 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

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