LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT A
PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE FINAL
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS STUDY SHEET GRADED A+
⩥ Cognitive Domain.
Answer: encompasses the changes in intelligence, wisdom, perception,
problem solving, memory, and language.
⩥ Psychosocial Domain.
Answer: focuses on changes in emotion, self-perception and
interpersonal relationships with families, peers, and friends.
⩥ Plasticity.
Answer: is all about our ability to change and that many of our
characteristics are malleable.
⩥ Normative age-graded influences.
Answer: An age-grade is a specific age group, such as toddler,
adolescent, or senior.
⩥ Normative history-graded influences.
, Answer: A cohort is a group of people who are born at roughly the same
period in a particular society.
⩥ Non-normative life influences.
Answer: Despite sharing an age and history with our peers, each of us
also has unique experiences that may shape our development.
⩥ Culture.
Answer: is the totality of our shared language, knowledge, material
objects, and behavior.
⩥ Ethnocentrism.
Answer: We tend to believe that our own culture's practices and
expectations are the right ones. This belief that our own culture is
superior is called.
⩥ Cultural relativity.
Answer: Is an appreciation for cultural differences and the understanding
that cultural practices are best understood from the standpoint of that
particular culture.
⩥ Lifespan.
Answer: refers to the length of time a species can exist under the most
optimal conditions.
PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE FINAL
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS STUDY SHEET GRADED A+
⩥ Cognitive Domain.
Answer: encompasses the changes in intelligence, wisdom, perception,
problem solving, memory, and language.
⩥ Psychosocial Domain.
Answer: focuses on changes in emotion, self-perception and
interpersonal relationships with families, peers, and friends.
⩥ Plasticity.
Answer: is all about our ability to change and that many of our
characteristics are malleable.
⩥ Normative age-graded influences.
Answer: An age-grade is a specific age group, such as toddler,
adolescent, or senior.
⩥ Normative history-graded influences.
, Answer: A cohort is a group of people who are born at roughly the same
period in a particular society.
⩥ Non-normative life influences.
Answer: Despite sharing an age and history with our peers, each of us
also has unique experiences that may shape our development.
⩥ Culture.
Answer: is the totality of our shared language, knowledge, material
objects, and behavior.
⩥ Ethnocentrism.
Answer: We tend to believe that our own culture's practices and
expectations are the right ones. This belief that our own culture is
superior is called.
⩥ Cultural relativity.
Answer: Is an appreciation for cultural differences and the understanding
that cultural practices are best understood from the standpoint of that
particular culture.
⩥ Lifespan.
Answer: refers to the length of time a species can exist under the most
optimal conditions.
