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LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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LIFE -SPAN DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 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 What is Human Development concerned with: - ANSWER 1.Health and Well -Being 2. Parenting and Education 3. Sociocultural Contexts and Diversity Culture, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Gender 4. Social Policy What are 3 ways to describe the nature of development? - ANSWER 1. Biological: changes in an individual's physical nature 2. Cognitive: changes in thought, intelligence, and language 3. Socioemotional: changes in relationships with other people, changes in emotions, and changes in personality What are the 7 periods of development? - ANSWER 1. Prenatal period: conception to birth (9 months) 2. Infancy: birth to 18 -24 months 3. Early childhood: 2 to 5 -6 years; play years 4. Middle and late childhood: 6 -11 yearsAdolescence: from 10 -12 to 18 -21 years 5. Early adulthood: early 20's through the 30's 6. Middle adulthood: 40 -60 years 7. Late adulthood: 60's -70's to death What are 4 ways to describe age? - ANSWER 1. chronological age (the number) 2. biological age 3. psychological age 4. social age Developmental Issues - ANSWER 1.Nature and Nurture 2. Stability and Change 3. Continuity and Discontinuity Five Theoretical Orientations to Development - ANSWER 1. Psychoanalytic 2. Cognitive 3. Behavioral and Social CognitiveThe benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
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