Human Growth & Development Exam 1
practice questions and answers
Lifespan Development - answer examines patterns of growth, change, and stability in behavior
throughout the lifespan
4 domains of development - answer physical, cognitive, personality, social
Age & range differences - answer prenatal, infancy and toddlerhood, middle childhood,
adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood
quantitative - answer changes in number or amount
qualitative - answer changes in kind, structure or organization
theory - answer broad, organized explanations and predictions concerning phenomena of
interest
psychoanalytic theory - answer Freud; focus on inner person, unconscious forces act to
determine personality and behavior. id, ego, and superego
, psychosocial theory - answer Erikson; development occurs through changes in interactions with
and understanding of others
behavioral theory - answer John b. Watson & B.F. Skinner; focus on observable behavior and
outside environmental stimuli, strengthened or weakened by negative or positive consequences
Behavioral - answer Albert Bandura & colleagues; behavior is learned through observation
Cognitive perspective - answer Jean Piaget; focus on processes that allow people to know,
understand, and think about the world, classical conditioning
contextual perspective - answer Urie Bronfenbrenner; focus on relationships between
individuals and their physical, cognitive, personality, and social worlds
Sociocultural perspective - answer Lev Vygotsky; as children play and cooperate with others,
they learn what is important in their society and advance cognitively in their understanding of
the world, zone of proximal development
stages of prenatal development - answer germinal, embryonic, fetal
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