Development - ANSWER systematic changes and continuities in the
individual that occur between conception and death
Physical development - ANSWER growth of the body and its organs,
functioning of physiological systems include brain, physical signs of aging, changes in motor
abilities, etc
Cognitive development - ANSWER changes and continuities in perception,
language, learning, memory, problem solving, and other mental processes
psychosocial development - ANSWER changes in personal and
interpersonal aspects of development, such as motives, emotions, personality traits,
interpersonal skills, and relationships, and roles played in the family and in the larger society
,Growth - ANSWER physical changes that occur from conception to
maturity
Biological aging - ANSWER deterioration of organisms that leads
inevitably to their death. Biologically speaking, development does involve growth in early life,
stability in early/middle adulthood, and decline associated with now-accumalted effects of
aging in later life
Aging - ANSWER involves more than biological aging, refers to a range of
physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes, positive and negative, in mature organism.
Development involves gains, losses, neutral changes, and continuities in each phase of the life
span, growth and again part of it
Emerging adulthood - ANSWER transitional period between adolescence
and full fledged adulthood that extends from age 18-25
*after WWII, started taking youth longer to get to adulthood and its roles/responsibilities than it
had in earlier eras as more people began to attend college in large numbers to prepare for
work/postpone marriage
Arnett says people in Emerging Adulthood... - ANSWER -explore identities
-lead unstable lives filled with job changes/new relationships
-self-focused, free of obligations to other, free to focus on own psychological needs
, -feel in-between- adult like in some ways but not others
-believe they have limitless possibilities ahead
Prenatal period - ANSWER conception to birth
infancy - ANSWER first 2 years of life
preschool period - ANSWER 2-5/6 years
middle childhood - ANSWER 6-10
adolescence - ANSWER (puberty) 10-18
emerging adulthood - ANSWER 18-25
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