PSY 200 Exam 1 Study Guide.
Developmental psychology - answera branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive,
and social change throughout the life span (from womb to tomb)
prenatal development - answerThe baby's development during a pregnancy
infancy - answerfrom birth to 2 years of ag...
Developmental psychology - answer✔a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive,
and social change throughout the life span (from womb to tomb)
prenatal development - answer✔The baby's development during a pregnancy
infancy - answer✔from birth to 2 years of age
Early Childhood - answer✔2-6 years
Middle Childhood - answer✔6-11 years
Adolescence - answer✔11-18 years
Early Adulthood - answer✔19-40 years
Middle Adulthood - answer✔40-65 years
Late adulthood - answer✔65 years and older
Domains of Development - answer✔physical, cognitive, emotional and social
Case Study - answer✔an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the
hope of revealing universal principles
Longitudinal Study - answer✔a study that observes the same participants on many occasions
over a long period of time
Survey - answer✔the collection of data by having people answer a series of questions
Development - answer✔the process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a
more complex organism
Growth - answer✔physical changes that occur from conception to maturity
Biological Aging - answer✔the deterioration of organisms that leads inevitably to their death
Aging - answer✔the combination of biological, psychological, and social processes that affect
people as they grow older
Age grade - answer✔socially defined age group in a society
Age norms - answer✔Expectations about what people should be doing or how they should
behave at different points in the life span.
Social Clock - answer✔a person's sense of when things should be done and when he or she is
ahead of or behind the schedule dictated by age norms
Nature-nurture Issue - answer✔the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that
genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors
Nature - answer✔the influence of our inherited characteristics on our personality, physical
growth, intellectual growth, and social interactions
Nurture - answer✔environment
Maturation - answer✔biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior,
relatively uninfluenced by experience
Environment - answer✔every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and
things around us
Learning - answer✔A process through which experience produces lasting change in behavior or
mental processes
bioecological model of development - answer✔stresses how biology and environment intersect
to produce development; introduced by American psychologist Urie Bronefen Brenner
Microsystem - answer✔in the bioecological model, the immediate environment that an
individual personally experiences
Mesosystem - answer✔in the bioecological model, the interconnections among immediate, or
microsystem, settings
Exosystem - answer✔social settings that a person may not experience firsthand but that still
influence development
Macrosystem - answer✔in the bioecological model, the larger cultural and social context within
which the other systems are embedded
culture - answer✔Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
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