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EPPP Developmental Psychology Exam
Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Qualitative Change - ✔️✔️Development is discontinuous, periods of little change
alternate with periods of abrupt and rapid change
Children who do not master stage specific issues are at increased risk for subsequent
development failures
Stage theorists assert that differences between adults and children
Quantitative Change - ✔️✔️Development is continuous with new abilities, skills, and
knowledge developing gradually and relatively uniformly over time
Differences between adults and children are because of maturation of neurological
processes
Microsystem - ✔️✔️Ecological Approach-Bronfenbrenner
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the everyday environment the person encounters (home, school)
Bi-directional relationships
Mesosystem - ✔️✔️Ecological Approach-Bronfenbrenner
Interaction or links between various microsystems
Child parents meet with teacher
Exosystem - ✔️✔️Ecological Approach-Bronfenbrenner
Relationship between two or more settings, at least one of which does not contain the
person, but indirectly affects him
Parents workplace
Macrosystem - ✔️✔️Ecological Approach-Bronfenbrenner
Influences of culture, religion, the economy, and political system
Chronosystem - ✔️✔️Ecological Approach-Bronfenbrenner
Role of the passage of time in the person's life
Normative influence on development - ✔️✔️Occur in a similar way for most people
Age-graded normative events - ✔️✔️event commonly experienced by people of a
particular age group (puberty, menopause, retirement)
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History-graded normative events - ✔️✔️event that is common to a particular cohort (Great
Depression, Vietnam War)
Non-normative influences on development - ✔️✔️unusual events that have a major
impact on an individual's life (death of a parent, birth defect)
Critical periods - ✔️✔️A specific time during an organism's life span when it is most
sensitive to environmental influences or stimulation
A specific structure or phenomenon must occur during this time, or it will not occur at all
Sensitive periods - ✔️✔️Stimulation and learning has more of an impact that it will at any
other time
Genes - ✔️✔️23 pairs of chromosomes
Composed of DNA and RNA
Genotype - ✔️✔️genetic makeup of the person
Phenotype - ✔️✔️observable characteristics of the person
Twin studies - ✔️✔️Most commonly used to assess the relative genetic, biological, or
dispositional contribution to a variable
Klinefelter's Syndrome - ✔️✔️Sex Chromosome Abnormalities
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