Chapter Nine: Lifespan Development

Question 1

What are growth or changes to the body and the brain?

Answer 1

Physical Development

Question 2

What type of development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity?

Answer 2

Cognitive Development

Question 3

What type of development involves emotions, personality, and social relationships?

Answer 3

Psychosocial Development

Question 4

What is the approach of comparing ages in which developmental milestones including writing, crawling, or saying sentences occur?

Answer 4

Normative Approach

Question 5

What is the belief that changes occur gradually over time?

Answer 5

Continuous Development

Question 6

What is the belief that the stages of life cause more sudden changes?

Answer 6

Discontinuous Development

Question 7

What is Freud’s type of development that is separated by the urges for erogenous zones including oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital called?

Answer 7

Psychosexual Development

Question 8

What is Erikson’s type of development that emphasizes the social nature of development rather than the sexual nature called?

Answer 8

Psychosocial Development

Question 9

What is it called when children take in information that is comparable to what they already know?

Answer 9

Assimilation

Question 10

What is it called when children change their schemata based on new information?

Answer 10

Accommodation

Question 11

What are the mental structures that a child uses to organize knowledge and guide cognitive processes/behavior?

Answer 11

Schemata

Question 12

What is the understanding that even if something is out of sight, it still exists?

Answer 12

Object Permanence

Question 13

When the child is unable to take in the perspective of others?

Answer 13

Egocentrism

Question 14

What is the idea that even a change in appearance does not change the size of something as long as nothing was removed or added?

Answer 14

Conservation

Question 15

What is the principle that though objects can be changed, they can be returned to their original form?

Answer 15

Reversibility

Question 16

What type of morality involves obedience, punishment, and self-interest?

Answer 16

Preconventional Morality

Question 17

What type of morality involves interpersonal and authority?

Answer 17

Conventional Morality

Question 18

What type of morality involves social contracts and universal ethics?

Answer 18

Post-Conventional Morality

Question 19

The stage of prenatal development where conception between sperm and egg creates a zygote that divides in a process called Mitosis:

Answer 19

Germinal Stage

Question 20

The stage of prenatal development where the divided zygote attaches to the uterus lining, creating an embryo, and the placenta and basic instructions begin forming:

Answer 20

Embryonic Stage

Question 21

The stage of prenatal development where the embryo is called a fetus, and the brain and organs begin to form until the fetus can survive outside the womb:

Answer 21

Fetal Stage

Question 22

What is the medical care that monitors the health of the fetus and mother that reduces the risk of complications?

Answer 22

Prenatal Care

Question 23

What are any biological, chemical, or physical environmental agents that damage the developing fetus?

Answer 23

Teratogen

Question 24

What is the period where exposure to a teratogen can cause significant abnormalities?

Answer 24

Critical Period

Question 25

What are the inborn automatic responses to particular forms of stimulation in order to survive?

Answer 25

Newborn Reflexes

Question 26

What is the coordination of large actions including the movement of arms and legs?

Answer 26

Gross Motor Skills

Question 26

What is the coordination of large actions including the movement of arms and legs?

Answer 26

Gross Motor Skills

Question 27

What is the coordination of small actions including the movement of eyes, fingers, and toes?

Answer 27

Fine Motor Skills

Question 28

What is a long-standing connection or bond with others called?

Answer 28

Attatchement

Question 29

What is a parental presence that gives the child a sense of safety as he explores his surroundings

Answer 29

Secure Base

Question 30

When a toddler prefers a parent over a stranger, it is called:

Answer 30

Secure Attatchment

Question 31

When a toddler is unresponsive to the parent, it is called:

Answer 31

Avoidant Attatchment

Question 32

When a toddler shows clingy behavior but rejects parental attempts of interaction, it is called:

Answer 32

Resistant Attatchment

Question 33

When a toddler avoids a parental figure, it is called:

Answer 33

Disorganized Attatchment

Question 34

In this parenting style, parents set rules and explain the reasons behind them. It is called:

Answer 34

Authoritative Style

Question 35

In this parenting style, parents place value on obedience and conformity. It is called:

Answer 35

Authoritarian Style

Question 36

In this parenting style, the children run the show. It is called:

Answer 36

Permissive Style

Question 37

In this parenting style, the parents are neglectful. It is called:

Answer 37

Uninvolved Style

Question 38

What are the innate traits that influence how one thinks, behaves, and reacts with the environment called?

Answer 38

Temperament

Question 39

What is the period of development that begins a puberty and ends at emerging adulthood?

Answer 39

Adolescence

Question 40

What is the awakening of adrenal glands called?

Answer 40

Adrenarche

Question 41

What is the awakening of sex glands called?

Answer 41

Gonadarche

Question 42

What type of sexual characteristics includes sex organs like the uterus and testicles?

Answer 42

Primary Sexual Characteristics

Question 43

What type of sexual characteristics includes physical signs of sexual development like deepened voice and breast development?

Answer 43

Secondary Sexual Characteristics

Question 44

What is the beginning of the menstrual period called?

Answer 44

Menarche

Question 45

What is the first ejaculation called?

Answer 45

Spermarche

Question 46

What is the ability to take the perspective of others and feel concerned for others?

Answer 46

Cognitive Empathy

Question 47

What is the period of life that includes the ages of 18 to the mid-20s?

Answer 47

Emerging Adulthood

Question 48

What is the period of life that includes the ages of late 20s to early 40s?

Answer 48

Adulthood

Question 49

When our social support and friendships dwindle in number but remain as close or more than in our earlier years, it is called:

Answer 49

Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

Question 50

Who helps provide the death with dignity and pain management in a comfortable environment?

Answer 50

Hospice