Set 1

Question 1

Human Development

Answer 1

Study of age related changes in behavior, thinking, emotion, and personality.

Question 2

Norms

Answer 2

Average ages at which developmental milestones are reached

Question 3

Maturation

Answer 3

Gradual unfolding of genetically programmed sequential pattern of change

Question 4

Plasticity

Answer 4

Belief that individuals of all ages possess the capacity for change due to environment

Question 5

Physical domain

Answer 5

Size, shape, and characteristic of body that can be quantitatively measured. Ex: head circumference of infants

Question 6

Cognitive domain

Answer 6

Thinking, memory, problem solving, and intellectual skills. Ex: at what age a person reaches puberty

Question 7

Social domain

Answer 7

Relationships with others and outside community

Question 8

Social clock

Answer 8

Set of age norms that are defined by society. Ex: marriage pressure, age that one leaves ones parents home

Question 9

Normative History Graded Changes

Answer 9

Changes that occur in most members of society during a defined historical period

Question 10

Critical period

Answer 10

Period in develop when an organism is especially sensitive to the presence or absence of some particular kind of experience

Question 11

Sensitive period

Answer 11

Span of months or years during which a person may be particularly responsive to specific forms of experience or particularly influenced by their absence

Question 12

Quantitative

Answer 12

Measure in the amount of something