Exam 1 textbook

Question 1

define lifepsan human development

Answer 1

the ways in which people grow, change, and stay the same throughout life, from life to death

Question 2

what age range is prenatal

Answer 2

conception to birth

Question 3

what age range is infancy and toddlerhood

Answer 3

birth to 2 years

Question 4

what age range is early childhood

Answer 4

2-6 years

Question 5

age range of middle childhood?

Answer 5

6-11

Question 6

age range of adolescence?

Answer 6

11-18

Question 7

age range of early adulthood

Answer 7

18-40

Question 8

age range of middle adulthood

Answer 8

40-65

Question 9

age range of late adulthood?

Answer 9

65 and beyond

Question 10

list the three ‘multi’ words assocaited with development

Answer 10

multidimensional, multidirectional, multidiscplinary

Question 11

what is socioemotional development?

Answer 11

changes in personality, emotions, views of onself, social skills, interpersonal relationships

Question 12

what is cognititve development

Answer 12

maturation of thought processes, and tools we use to obtain knowledge

Question 13

development is _______ and influenced by multiple _________

Answer 13

plastic, contexts

Question 14

what is multidirectional development?

Answer 14

gains and losses, growth and decline throughout the lifespan

Question 15

what is resilience?

Answer 15

capacity to effectively adapt in adverse situations

Question 16

context refers to what?

Answer 16

where and when a person develops

Question 17

define age-graded influeunces

Answer 17

influeces related to chornological age and are predictabel

Question 18

define history-graded influeunces

Answer 18

the time period inwhich we live and the historical circumstances of that time period affecting our developemtn

Question 19

what is a cohort?

Answer 19

a generation of people born at the same time influenced by same cultural conditions

Question 20

define non-normative infulecnes

Answer 20

includfences unique to individuals

Question 21

define culture

Answer 21

set of customs. knowledge, attitudes, and values shared by members of a group

Question 22

what is multidisciplinary development

Answer 22

multiple fields such as medicine, psycholohy, neuroscicens combing together to research

Question 23

what is multidimensional devleopetn

Answer 23

development in multuiple domains such as physical, cognitive, and socioemoitional

Question 24

what is discontinous change

Answer 24

abrupt change with people of various ages very different from one another

Question 25

what does taking an active role in delvopemnt mean?

Answer 25

interacting and influencing the world around them, creating experiences leading to developmental change.

Question 26

true or false: both nature and nuture influence development

Answer 26

true

Question 27

describe psychoanalytic theories

Answer 27

theories that decrobe devleopment and behaviopr as a result of the interpaly of inner conflicts and memoeires we are unaware of.

Question 28

who are the two critical psychoanalytic theorists?

Answer 28

freud and erikson

Question 29

describe freud's psychosexual theory

Answer 29

much of our behavior is driven by uncious impulses outside of our awareness

Question 30

freud did not study _____, his work grew from _______ patients

Answer 30

children, female

Question 31

a good theory is one that is _______, meaning it is capable of generating hypotheses that can be tested and refuted.

Answer 31

falsifiable

Question 32

who placed less emphasis on unconcious motivators of development and more emphasis on the social world?

Answer 32

erik erikson

Question 33

erikson's psychosocial theory is notable for being one of the _____ lifespan views of development

Answer 33

first

Question 34

erikson stated that people pass through ____ stages of psychosocial development

Answer 34

8

Question 35

what is behaviorism?

Answer 35

theoretical apporach that studies how observable behavior is controlled by physical and social envrionemnt

Question 36

define classical conditioning

Answer 36

a person assocaites stimuli with responses

Question 37

who discovered classical conditioning

Answer 37

ivan pavlov