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LIFE-SPAN: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 8E CH.1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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LIFE-SPAN: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 8ECH.1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2024
Development - ANSWER -Systematic changes and continuities that occur between conception and death
(womb to tomb).
Questions asked. - ANSWER - How infants perceive the world.
- How preschool children think.
- How life events effect life later.
- Why some college students have more trouble than others deciding on a major.
- How people typically change physically, mentally and emotionally.
Three domains of development. - ANSWER - Physical: Growth of body and organs.
- Cognitive: Changes in perception, learning, memory and other mental processes.
- Pyschosocial: Emotions, personality traits, and motives.
Paul Baltes (1987) "New Life-Span Perspective". - ANSWER - Development is a life long process.
- Development is multi directional.
- Development involves both gain and loss.
- Development changes from experiences.
- Development is shaped by historical/cultural context.
- Development is multiply influenced (nature/nurture).
- Understanding of development requires multiple disciplines.
Growth - ANSWER - Physical changes that occur from conception to maturity.
Biological aging - ANSWER - Deterioration of organisms.
Periods of Lifespan - ANSWER - Prenatal period (conception to birth)
- Infancy (first 2 years of life/First mo. is neonatal)
- Preschool (2-5 or 6 yrs)
- Middle Childhood (6-10 or until puberty)
- Adolescence (10-18)
- Emerging Adulthood (18-25 transitional period)
- Early Adulthood (25-40 / adult roles established)
- Middle Adulthood (40-65)
- Late Adulthood (65+/Old age)
According to Arnett emerging adults: - ANSWER - Explore their identities
- Lead unstable lives
- Feel in between
- Believe they have limitless possibilities.
- Are self focused
Five traditional markers of adulthood. - ANSWER - Education
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