LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT EXAM STUDY
SHEET 2026 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉ Events or trends (such as social or economic trends) that are
common to members of a particular generation are known as ______
influences..
Answer: normative history-graded
◉ The brain plays a role in shaping culture and culture plays a role
in shaping the brain. This is pointed to as an example of how ______..
Answer: life-span development is a co-constrution of biology,
culture, and the person
◉ Marina is interested in researching the effects of teacher-to-child
ratio on academic achievement. This exemplifies the contemporary
focus of life-span development on _____.
Answer: Education
◉ ________ life events are unusual occurrences that have a major
impact on an individual's life, but do not occur to every individual
and do not always influence people in the same way..
Answer: Nonnormative
,◉ What term describes the beliefs, customs, and general behavior
patterns of a group of people.
Answer: culture
◉ The idea that development is ______ refers to the fact that some
dimensions or components of a dimension expand and others shrink
throughout the life span..
Answer: Multidirectional
◉ multidimensional.
Answer: development consists of biological, cognitive, and
socioemotional dimensions
◉ Baltes and his colleagues (2006) hypothesize that mastery of life
involves conflict and competition among different goals of human
development. Which of the following are those goals? (Choose all
that apply).
Answer: Growth, regulation of loss, and maintenance
◉ Culture.
Answer: Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of
people.
, ◉ _______ - cultural studies compare aspects of two or more cultures.
Answer: Cross
◉ A person creates a unique developmental path by actively
choosing from the environment the things that optimize his or her
life. Which of the following statements describes this process?.
Answer: Development is a co-construction of biology, culture, and
the individual
◉ True or false: Ethnicity encompasses nationality but not religion
or language..
Answer: False
◉ ______ status refers to a person's position within society, based on
occupational, educational, and economic characteristics..
Answer: Socioeconomic
◉ ______ encompasses the behavior patterns and beliefs that are
passed from generation to generation.
Answer: culture
◉ ____ refers to the characteristics of people as males and females as
a central part of their identity in social relationships..
Answer: Gender
SHEET 2026 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉ Events or trends (such as social or economic trends) that are
common to members of a particular generation are known as ______
influences..
Answer: normative history-graded
◉ The brain plays a role in shaping culture and culture plays a role
in shaping the brain. This is pointed to as an example of how ______..
Answer: life-span development is a co-constrution of biology,
culture, and the person
◉ Marina is interested in researching the effects of teacher-to-child
ratio on academic achievement. This exemplifies the contemporary
focus of life-span development on _____.
Answer: Education
◉ ________ life events are unusual occurrences that have a major
impact on an individual's life, but do not occur to every individual
and do not always influence people in the same way..
Answer: Nonnormative
,◉ What term describes the beliefs, customs, and general behavior
patterns of a group of people.
Answer: culture
◉ The idea that development is ______ refers to the fact that some
dimensions or components of a dimension expand and others shrink
throughout the life span..
Answer: Multidirectional
◉ multidimensional.
Answer: development consists of biological, cognitive, and
socioemotional dimensions
◉ Baltes and his colleagues (2006) hypothesize that mastery of life
involves conflict and competition among different goals of human
development. Which of the following are those goals? (Choose all
that apply).
Answer: Growth, regulation of loss, and maintenance
◉ Culture.
Answer: Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of
people.
, ◉ _______ - cultural studies compare aspects of two or more cultures.
Answer: Cross
◉ A person creates a unique developmental path by actively
choosing from the environment the things that optimize his or her
life. Which of the following statements describes this process?.
Answer: Development is a co-construction of biology, culture, and
the individual
◉ True or false: Ethnicity encompasses nationality but not religion
or language..
Answer: False
◉ ______ status refers to a person's position within society, based on
occupational, educational, and economic characteristics..
Answer: Socioeconomic
◉ ______ encompasses the behavior patterns and beliefs that are
passed from generation to generation.
Answer: culture
◉ ____ refers to the characteristics of people as males and females as
a central part of their identity in social relationships..
Answer: Gender
