LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT REVISION
HANDBOOK 2026 COGNITIVE EMOTIONAL
AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
◉ 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)
◉ Non-normstive or Highly Individualized Life Events. Answer: Are
personal and do not happen to all people.
◉ Contemporary concerns of life span development. Answer: Health
and Well Being
(Improve well being)
, Parenting and Education
(Problems in US schools)
Sociocultural Contexts and Diversity
(Ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender)
◉ Social policy. Answer: A govnt course of action designed to
promote the welfare of its citizens.
Developmental psychologists research effects of got policies and
make suggestions to improve got policies.
◉ What are the 3 developmental processes?. Answer: Biological
Cognitive
Socioemotional
◉ Biological process. Answer: Produce changes in an individual's
physical nature.
(Menopause)
◉ Cognitive Process. Answer: Refer to changes in the individuals...
HANDBOOK 2026 COGNITIVE EMOTIONAL
AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
◉ 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)
◉ Non-normstive or Highly Individualized Life Events. Answer: Are
personal and do not happen to all people.
◉ Contemporary concerns of life span development. Answer: Health
and Well Being
(Improve well being)
, Parenting and Education
(Problems in US schools)
Sociocultural Contexts and Diversity
(Ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender)
◉ Social policy. Answer: A govnt course of action designed to
promote the welfare of its citizens.
Developmental psychologists research effects of got policies and
make suggestions to improve got policies.
◉ What are the 3 developmental processes?. Answer: Biological
Cognitive
Socioemotional
◉ Biological process. Answer: Produce changes in an individual's
physical nature.
(Menopause)
◉ Cognitive Process. Answer: Refer to changes in the individuals...
