Lifespan Perspectives Flashcards
Covers all lifespan perspectives of OLFU prelims (141 cards)
In the life span perspective, early adulthood is not the end point of development; rather, no age period dominates development. Research increasingly studies the experiences and psychological orientations of adults at different points in their lives.
A. Development is lifelong
B. Development is Multidimensional
C. Development is Multidirectional
D. Development is Plastic
A. Development is lifelong
No matter what your age might be, your body, mind, emotions, and relationships are changing and affecting each other. Development has biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimension. Even within a dimension, there are more components. example: attention, memory, abstract thinking, speed of processing information and social intelligence are just a few components of the cognitive dimension.
A. Development is lifelong
B. Development is Multidimensional
C. Development is Multidirectional
D. Development is Plastic
B. Development is Multidimensional
Throughout life, some dimensions or components of dimensions expand, and others shrink. example: when one language (such as English) is acquired early in development, the capacity for acquiring second and third languages, (such as Spanish and Chinese) decrease later in development, especially after early childhood
A. Development is lifelong
B. Development is Multidimensional
C. Development is Multidirectional
D. Development is Plastic
C. Development is Multidirectional
This means the capacity for change. example: can you still improve your intellectual skills when you are in your seventies or eighties? Or might these intellectual skills be fixed by the time you are in your thirties so that further improvement is impossible? Researchers have found that the cognitive skills of older adults can be improved through training and acquisition of better strategies. However, possibly we possess less capacity for change as we grow older.
A. Development is lifelong
B. Development is Multidimensional
C. Development is Multidirectional
D. Development is Plastic
D. Development is Plastic
Defined as systematic changes and continuities in the individual that occur between conception and death, or from “womb to tomb.”
A. Development
B. Development Science is Multidisciplinary
C. Development is Contextual
A. Development
Psychologist, sociologist, anthropologist, neuroscientist, and medical researchers all share an interest in unlocking the mysteries of development through the life span.
A. Development
B. Development Science is Multidisciplinary
C. Development is Contextual
B. Development Science is Multidisciplinary
All development occurs within a context, or setting contexts including families, schools, peer groups, churches, cities, neighborhoods, university laboratories, countries and so on. Each of these settings is influenced by historical, economic, social, and cultural factors.
A. Development
B. Development Science is Multidisciplinary
C. Development is Contextual
C. Development is Contextual
This is similar for individuals in a particular age group. These influences include biological processes such as puberty and menopause. They also include sociocultural factors and environmental processes such as beginning formal education and retiring from the workforce.
A. Normative age-graded influence
B. Normative history-graded influences
C. Non-Normative life events
A. Normative age-graded influence
These are unusual occurrences that have a major impact on the lives of an individual people such as the pandemic.
A. Normative age-graded influence
B. Normative history-graded influences
C. Non-Normative life events
B. Normative history-graded influences
Health, parenting, and education like development itself are all shaped by their sociocultural context.
A. Sociocultural contexts and diversity
B. Culture
C. Cross-cultural studies
A. Sociocultural contexts and diversity
It encompasses the behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a particular group of people that are passed on from generation to generation.
A. Sociocultural contexts and diversity
B. Culture
C. Cross-cultural studies
B. Culture
Compare aspects of two or more cultures.
A. Sociocultural contexts and diversity
B. Culture
C. Cross-cultural studies
C. Cross-cultural studies
The growth of the body and its organs, the functioning of physiological systems, physical signs of aging, changes in motor abilities, and so on.
A. Physical Development
B. Cognitive Development
C. Psychosocial Development
A. Physical Development
Changes and continuities in perception, language, learning, memory, problem solving, and other mental processes.
A. Physical Development
B. Cognitive Development
C. Psychosocial Development
B. Cognitive Development
Changes and carry-over in personal and interpersonal aspects of development, such as motives, emotions, personality traits, interpersonal skills and relationships, and roles played in the family and in the larger society.
A. Physical Development
B. Cognitive Development
C. Psychosocial Development
C. Psychosocial Development
side of the debate are those who emphasize the influence of heredity, universal maturational processes guided by the genes, biologically based predispositions produced by evolution, and biological influences such as hormones and brain growth spurts. Development is largely brought about by maturation.
A. Nature
B. Nurture
A. Nature
side of the debate is those who emphasize change in response to environment—all the external physical and social conditions, stimuli, and events that can affect us, from crowded living quarters and polluted air to social interactions with family members, peers, and teachers, to the neighborhood and broader cultural context in which we develop.
A. Nature B. Nurture
B. Nurture
Conception to birth
A. Prenatal Period
B. Infancy
C. Preschool Period
D. Middle Childhood
A. Prenatal Period
First 2 years of life.
A. Prenatal Period
B. Infancy
C. Preschool Period
D. Middle Childhood
B. Infancy
2 to 5/6 years (some prefer to describe as toddlers children who have begun to walk and are age 1 to 3).
A. Prenatal Period
B. Infancy
C. Preschool Period
D. Middle Childhood
C. Preschool Period
6 to about 12 years (or until the onset of puberty)
A. Prenatal Period
B. Infancy
C. Preschool Period
D. Middle Childhood
D. Middle Childhood
Approximately 12 to 20 (or when the individual becomes relatively independent of parents and begins to assume adult roles)
A. Adolescence
B. Early Adulthood
C. Middle Adulthood
D. Late Adulthood
A. Adolescence
20 to 40 years old
A. Adolescence
B. Early Adulthood
C. Middle Adulthood
D. Late Adulthood
B. Early Adulthood
40 to 65 years old
A. Adolescence
B. Early Adulthood
C. Middle Adulthood
D. Late Adulthood
C. Middle Adulthood