HDFS exam 1 chapter 1-4 questions & answers 2024/2025
theory - ANSWERSorderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior
continuous development - ANSWERSprocess of gradually augmenting skills that were with you since the beginning
discontinuous developm...
theory - ANSWERSorderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior
continuous development - ANSWERSprocess of gradually augmenting skills that were with you since the
beginning
discontinuous development - ANSWERSnew ways of understanding and learning emerge at specific times
stages - ANSWERSQUALITIATIVE changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific
periods of development
like walking up a set of stairs
contexts - ANSWERSunique combinations of personal/environmental circumstances that results in a
different kinds of change
nature - ANSWERShereditary information at birth
nurture - ANSWERSforces of the physical/social world
Plasticity - ANSWERSopenness to change in response to influential experiences. very plastic in early ages
lifespan perspective - ANSWERSdevelopment is:
1. lifelong
2. multidimensional and multidirectional
3.highly plastic
4. affected by multiple, interacting forces
, development is influenced by - ANSWERSbiological, historical, social, and cultural forces
age-graded influences - ANSWERSevents strongly related to age and fairly predictable like walking at 1,
puberty at 12
history graded influences - ANSWERSwhy people born in a certain time (cohort) tends to be different
from other age groups (baby boomers)
non-normative influences - ANSWERSirregular events, happen to a few people, not predictable.
ex. getting cancer
who is G. Stanley Hall? - ANSWERSfounder of the child study movement
normative approach - ANSWERSbehaviors of a large number of people and age related averages are
computed to represent typical development
who created the intelligence test? - ANSWERSAlfred Binet
another name for intelligence test - ANSWERSStanford-Binet Intelligence Test
Psychoanalytic Perspective - ANSWERSpeople move through a series of stages, confront conflict between
biological drive and social expectations
*Freud+Erikson
discontinuous; both nature and nurture
Psychosexual Theory - ANSWERShow parents manage their children sexual and aggressive drives in early
years are crucial to healthy personality development
3 parts of brain - ANSWERSid, ego, superego
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