(5) 2026 Exam Questions and
Correct Answers | New Update
Lifespan Development Define - ANSWER ✔✔physical, social,
cognitive, and emotional changes throughout human life
Factors of lifespan development - ANSWER ✔✔1. lifelong
2. multidirectional
3. multidisciplinary
4. multidimensional (biological, social, emotional, cognitive, moral)
,Maturation: adults ____, while children ____ - ANSWER ✔✔age,
grow
Nature - ANSWER ✔✔biological, genetic
people are BORN a specific way
Nurture - ANSWER ✔✔environmental, learned/influenced by others
people change based on surroundings - raising, human environment, etc
Continuous development - ANSWER ✔✔Various stages of
development gradually flow into one another
Can be difficult to determine when one stage starts and another starts
Behaviorists
Discontinuous development - ANSWER ✔✔Developmental stages
are distinct
One stage definitely ends before another begins
, Stage theorists
Sigmund Freud - ANSWER ✔✔Psychosexual stages of development
Proposed the id, ego, superego are what develop one's personality
Proposed 5 stages of development involving a conflict and fixation with
an area of the body associated with gratification/pleasure
Freud's 5 stages of development - ANSWER ✔✔1. Oral stage: birth-
18 months: relief from anxiety through oral gratification of needs
2. Anal stage: 18 months-3yoa: learning independence and control, with
focus on the excretory function
3. Phallic stage: 3-5yoa: identification with parent of same sex;
development of sexual identity; focus on genital organs
4. Latency stage: 5 years-puberty: sexuality is repressed; focus is on
relationships with same-sex peers
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