LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT LEARNING
WORKBOOK 2026 CHILDHOOD
ADOLESCENCE ADULTHOOD AND AGING
◉ Cross-sectional Approach. Answer: A research strategy in which
individuals of different ages are compared simultaneously.
◉ Development. Answer: Pattern of movement or change that
begins at conception and continues through the human life span.
◉ Ethology. Answer: Study of behavior as it is strongly influenced by
biology, tied to evolution, and characterized by critical or sensitive
periods.
◉ Information-processing theory. Answer: Emphasizes that
individuals manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about
it.
◉ Life-saving perspective. Answer: The perspective thay
development t is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic,
multidisciplinary, and contextual; it involves growth, maintenance,
and regulation.
,◉ Longitudinal Approach. Answer: A research strategy in which the
same individuals are studied repeatedly over a period of time,
usually several years or more.
◉ Nature-nurture Isssue. Answer: Refers to the debate about
whether development is primarily influenced by what we are born
with or by our environmental experiences as we grow.
◉ Psychoanalytic Theory. Answer: Describes development as
primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion.
◉ Social Cognitive Theory. Answer: Emphasizes behavior,
environment, and cognition as the key factors in development.
◉ Traditional Approach to life-saving perspective. Answer:
Emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence, little to no
change in adulthood, and decline in old age.
◉ Life-saving approach to development. Answer: Emphasizes
developmental change throughout adulthood as well as childhood.
◉ Human Life Span. Answer: Based on oldest age documented --122
yrs.
, ◉ Life expectancy. Answer: Average number of years that a person
born in a particular year can expect to live.
INCREASED By 30 years in the 20th century.
◉ Life-saving perspective views development as?. Answer: Lifelong
Multidimensional
Multidirectional
Plastic
Multidisciplinary
Contexual
◉ Normative Age-graded Influences. Answer: Similar for individuals
In a particular age group.
(Menopause)
◉ Normative History-graded Influences. Answer: Common to ppl of
a particular generation because of historical circumstances.
(9/11)
WORKBOOK 2026 CHILDHOOD
ADOLESCENCE ADULTHOOD AND AGING
◉ Cross-sectional Approach. Answer: A research strategy in which
individuals of different ages are compared simultaneously.
◉ Development. Answer: Pattern of movement or change that
begins at conception and continues through the human life span.
◉ Ethology. Answer: Study of behavior as it is strongly influenced by
biology, tied to evolution, and characterized by critical or sensitive
periods.
◉ Information-processing theory. Answer: Emphasizes that
individuals manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about
it.
◉ Life-saving perspective. Answer: The perspective thay
development t is lifelong, multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic,
multidisciplinary, and contextual; it involves growth, maintenance,
and regulation.
,◉ Longitudinal Approach. Answer: A research strategy in which the
same individuals are studied repeatedly over a period of time,
usually several years or more.
◉ Nature-nurture Isssue. Answer: Refers to the debate about
whether development is primarily influenced by what we are born
with or by our environmental experiences as we grow.
◉ Psychoanalytic Theory. Answer: Describes development as
primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion.
◉ Social Cognitive Theory. Answer: Emphasizes behavior,
environment, and cognition as the key factors in development.
◉ Traditional Approach to life-saving perspective. Answer:
Emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence, little to no
change in adulthood, and decline in old age.
◉ Life-saving approach to development. Answer: Emphasizes
developmental change throughout adulthood as well as childhood.
◉ Human Life Span. Answer: Based on oldest age documented --122
yrs.
, ◉ Life expectancy. Answer: Average number of years that a person
born in a particular year can expect to live.
INCREASED By 30 years in the 20th century.
◉ Life-saving perspective views development as?. Answer: Lifelong
Multidimensional
Multidirectional
Plastic
Multidisciplinary
Contexual
◉ Normative Age-graded Influences. Answer: Similar for individuals
In a particular age group.
(Menopause)
◉ Normative History-graded Influences. Answer: Common to ppl of
a particular generation because of historical circumstances.
(9/11)
