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PSY230 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY TEST 1
REVIEW Questions and Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
Developmental Psychology
Ans: How age affects mental processes throughout life.
Lifespan Perspective
Ans: The perspective that development is lifelong, multidimensional,
multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual; that it involves growth,
maintenance, and regulation; and that it is constructed through biological,
sociocultural, and individual factors working together.
Multi-Directional
Ans: How people grow and decline (Possibly at the same time)
Characteristics of the Lifespan Perspective
Ans: It is multi-dimensional, multi-directional, and plastic
Normative Age-Graded Influences
Ans: Normal or common for grade (ex. Elementary school)
Normative History-Graded Influences
Ans: Normal or common for to people of a particular generation because of
historical circumstances
Nonnormative Life Events
Ans: are unusual occurrences that have a major impact on the individual's life.
Life Expectancy
Ans: How long a human could expect to live presently...current life expectancy is 78
years of age
Lifespan
Ans: highest age currently believed possible (122 years of age)
Social Policy
Ans: is a government's course of action designed to promote the welfare of its
citizens.
Biological Processes
Ans: changes in an individual's physical nature
Cognitive Processes
Ans: changes in an individual's thought, intelligence, and language
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Socioemotional Processes
Ans: changes in an individual's relationships with other people, emotions, and
personality
Prenatal Period
Ans: Lasts from conception to birth
Infancy
Ans: Birth to about 2 years of age
Early Childhood
Ans: Preschool (roughly)
Middle and Late Childhood
Ans: Elementary School (roughly)
Adolescence
Ans: Starts at the onset of puberty
Early Adulthood
Ans: 20-39 years of age
Middle Adulthood
Ans: 40-59 years of age
Late Adulthood
Ans: 60+ years of age
Conceptions of Age
Ans: Sings can often show the change from one age range to another, such as
retirement marking transition from middle adulthood to late adulthood.
Chronological Age
Ans: How long one has been alive
Biological Age
Ans: age in terms of biological health
Psychological Age
Ans: how a person interacts with others and how their brain works
Social "Age"
Ans: based on certain things happening environmentally that could vary by age
range, such as first year in college or first baby (because either is possible at age 20
or at age 40)
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Nature
Ans: Born with, Genetics, Instincts, Inherit, Innate
Nurture
Ans: Environment, Family/Friends, Religion/Culture, Experiences, Learn (two big
E's...ENVIRONMENT...EXPERIENCES)
Stability v. Change Issue
Ans: involves the degree to which early traits and characteristics persist or change
over time.
Change
Ans: plasticity, early & late experiences
Continuity
Ans: Involves gradual, cumulative change
Discontinuity
Ans: Involves distinct stages
Scientific Method
Ans: IS A 4 STEP PROCESS. (1) conceptualize a process or problem to be studied (2)
colect research information (data) (3) analyze data (4) draw conclusions
Theory
Ans: A coherent set of ideas that helps ot explain data and to make predictions
Hypothesis
Ans: Assertions or predictions, often derived from theories, that can be tested
Psychoanalytic Theories
Ans: describe development primarily in terms of unconscious (beyond awareness)
processes that are heavily colored by emotion.
Freud's Psychosexual Theory
Ans: The "main" psychoanalytic theory.
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory
Ans: people develop in psychosocial stages rather than psychosexual changes
Evaluating Psychoanalytic Theories
Ans: Contributions: emphasis on a developmental framework, family relationships,
and unconscious aspects of the mind.
Criticisms: lack of scientific support, too much emphasis on sexual underpinnings,
and an image of people that is too negative.
PSY230 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY TEST 1
REVIEW Questions and Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
Developmental Psychology
Ans: How age affects mental processes throughout life.
Lifespan Perspective
Ans: The perspective that development is lifelong, multidimensional,
multidirectional, plastic, multidisciplinary, and contextual; that it involves growth,
maintenance, and regulation; and that it is constructed through biological,
sociocultural, and individual factors working together.
Multi-Directional
Ans: How people grow and decline (Possibly at the same time)
Characteristics of the Lifespan Perspective
Ans: It is multi-dimensional, multi-directional, and plastic
Normative Age-Graded Influences
Ans: Normal or common for grade (ex. Elementary school)
Normative History-Graded Influences
Ans: Normal or common for to people of a particular generation because of
historical circumstances
Nonnormative Life Events
Ans: are unusual occurrences that have a major impact on the individual's life.
Life Expectancy
Ans: How long a human could expect to live presently...current life expectancy is 78
years of age
Lifespan
Ans: highest age currently believed possible (122 years of age)
Social Policy
Ans: is a government's course of action designed to promote the welfare of its
citizens.
Biological Processes
Ans: changes in an individual's physical nature
Cognitive Processes
Ans: changes in an individual's thought, intelligence, and language
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Socioemotional Processes
Ans: changes in an individual's relationships with other people, emotions, and
personality
Prenatal Period
Ans: Lasts from conception to birth
Infancy
Ans: Birth to about 2 years of age
Early Childhood
Ans: Preschool (roughly)
Middle and Late Childhood
Ans: Elementary School (roughly)
Adolescence
Ans: Starts at the onset of puberty
Early Adulthood
Ans: 20-39 years of age
Middle Adulthood
Ans: 40-59 years of age
Late Adulthood
Ans: 60+ years of age
Conceptions of Age
Ans: Sings can often show the change from one age range to another, such as
retirement marking transition from middle adulthood to late adulthood.
Chronological Age
Ans: How long one has been alive
Biological Age
Ans: age in terms of biological health
Psychological Age
Ans: how a person interacts with others and how their brain works
Social "Age"
Ans: based on certain things happening environmentally that could vary by age
range, such as first year in college or first baby (because either is possible at age 20
or at age 40)
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Nature
Ans: Born with, Genetics, Instincts, Inherit, Innate
Nurture
Ans: Environment, Family/Friends, Religion/Culture, Experiences, Learn (two big
E's...ENVIRONMENT...EXPERIENCES)
Stability v. Change Issue
Ans: involves the degree to which early traits and characteristics persist or change
over time.
Change
Ans: plasticity, early & late experiences
Continuity
Ans: Involves gradual, cumulative change
Discontinuity
Ans: Involves distinct stages
Scientific Method
Ans: IS A 4 STEP PROCESS. (1) conceptualize a process or problem to be studied (2)
colect research information (data) (3) analyze data (4) draw conclusions
Theory
Ans: A coherent set of ideas that helps ot explain data and to make predictions
Hypothesis
Ans: Assertions or predictions, often derived from theories, that can be tested
Psychoanalytic Theories
Ans: describe development primarily in terms of unconscious (beyond awareness)
processes that are heavily colored by emotion.
Freud's Psychosexual Theory
Ans: The "main" psychoanalytic theory.
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory
Ans: people develop in psychosocial stages rather than psychosexual changes
Evaluating Psychoanalytic Theories
Ans: Contributions: emphasis on a developmental framework, family relationships,
and unconscious aspects of the mind.
Criticisms: lack of scientific support, too much emphasis on sexual underpinnings,
and an image of people that is too negative.
