LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT MIDTERM EXAM NEWEST
2024 ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+
What is developmental psychology? - ANSWER: core branch of psychology that
attempts to describe and understand how people change over time from conception
to death
What ways do we describe and understand human development? - ANSWER:
Process of development, developmental psychology of description and
developmental psychology of understanding
Process of Development - ANSWER: how a baby grows in utero, development of
thinking in childhood
What are the 3 organizational constructs of development? - ANSWER: domains,
stages and contextual vs. non-contextual development
What are the three domains of development? - ANSWER: Physical-Motor, Cognitive
and Social-Emotional
Physical-Motor - ANSWER: development of body and physical abilities
Cognitive - ANSWER: development of intellectual abilities
Social-Emotional - ANSWER: development of relationships and personality
What are the 12 stages of development? - ANSWER: prenatal, infancy, toddlerhood,
early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, early
adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood, late-late adulthood and death & dying
How do we transition between stages? - ANSWER: There is a qualitative shift in one
or more of the domains of development.
How are the stages and domains combined? - ANSWER: All processes begin at the
beginning of development, domains are interdependent and stages are progressive.
Non-contextual development - ANSWER: universal human blueprint
contextual development - ANSWER: factors that are specific to the lives of certain
individuals
What are different contexts of development? - ANSWER: race, religion, sex,
ethnicity, socio-economic status, time in history, politics/public policy, technology
, What is a grand theory of development? - ANSWER: a conceptualization of a domain
of development
What are the four grand theories of development? - ANSWER: classical freudian
psychoanalysis, behaviorism, eric erikson's theory of psychosocial development and
Piaje theory
What are the three social emotional theories? - ANSWER: classical freudian
psychoanalysis, behaviorism, eric erikson's theory of psychosocial development
Eric Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development - ANSWER: In each stage of
development, there is a competition between two opposing attitudes of self and/or
the world. At the end of the stage everyone is left with an internal ratio of the two
Piaget Theory - ANSWER: There are different modes of representing reality, 4 stages
of cognitive development : sensori-motor intelligence, pre-operational intelligence,
concrete operations and formal operations
Sensori-motor intelligence - ANSWER: Infancy and toddlerhood, birth to ages 2.5,
sensory features of stimuli, actions directed toward stimuli
Pre-operational intelligence - ANSWER: Early childhood, ages 2.5-6, symbolic
function
Concrete Operations - ANSWER: Middle childhood, ages 7-12, think logically about
concrete stimuli
Formal Operations - ANSWER: Adolescence and beyond, ages 13+, think logically
about abstract stimuli
What are the three steps to concept formation and refinement? - ANSWER: form an
initial schema, attempt to assimilate new information into the initial schema,
accommodation : revise the initial schema when there is a failure of assimilation and
come up with a new schema
What are the three perspectives of pregnancy and prenatal development? -
ANSWER: the parents, the developing embryo and scientific/clinical
recommendations
How do we optimize prenatal development? - ANSWER: nutrition, avoiding hazards
(teratogens)
What nutrients are important to increase? - ANSWER: protein (through animal
products), iron, folic acid, calcium, fluids, fluoride
What things are important to avoid? - ANSWER: caffeine
2024 ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+
What is developmental psychology? - ANSWER: core branch of psychology that
attempts to describe and understand how people change over time from conception
to death
What ways do we describe and understand human development? - ANSWER:
Process of development, developmental psychology of description and
developmental psychology of understanding
Process of Development - ANSWER: how a baby grows in utero, development of
thinking in childhood
What are the 3 organizational constructs of development? - ANSWER: domains,
stages and contextual vs. non-contextual development
What are the three domains of development? - ANSWER: Physical-Motor, Cognitive
and Social-Emotional
Physical-Motor - ANSWER: development of body and physical abilities
Cognitive - ANSWER: development of intellectual abilities
Social-Emotional - ANSWER: development of relationships and personality
What are the 12 stages of development? - ANSWER: prenatal, infancy, toddlerhood,
early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, early
adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood, late-late adulthood and death & dying
How do we transition between stages? - ANSWER: There is a qualitative shift in one
or more of the domains of development.
How are the stages and domains combined? - ANSWER: All processes begin at the
beginning of development, domains are interdependent and stages are progressive.
Non-contextual development - ANSWER: universal human blueprint
contextual development - ANSWER: factors that are specific to the lives of certain
individuals
What are different contexts of development? - ANSWER: race, religion, sex,
ethnicity, socio-economic status, time in history, politics/public policy, technology
, What is a grand theory of development? - ANSWER: a conceptualization of a domain
of development
What are the four grand theories of development? - ANSWER: classical freudian
psychoanalysis, behaviorism, eric erikson's theory of psychosocial development and
Piaje theory
What are the three social emotional theories? - ANSWER: classical freudian
psychoanalysis, behaviorism, eric erikson's theory of psychosocial development
Eric Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development - ANSWER: In each stage of
development, there is a competition between two opposing attitudes of self and/or
the world. At the end of the stage everyone is left with an internal ratio of the two
Piaget Theory - ANSWER: There are different modes of representing reality, 4 stages
of cognitive development : sensori-motor intelligence, pre-operational intelligence,
concrete operations and formal operations
Sensori-motor intelligence - ANSWER: Infancy and toddlerhood, birth to ages 2.5,
sensory features of stimuli, actions directed toward stimuli
Pre-operational intelligence - ANSWER: Early childhood, ages 2.5-6, symbolic
function
Concrete Operations - ANSWER: Middle childhood, ages 7-12, think logically about
concrete stimuli
Formal Operations - ANSWER: Adolescence and beyond, ages 13+, think logically
about abstract stimuli
What are the three steps to concept formation and refinement? - ANSWER: form an
initial schema, attempt to assimilate new information into the initial schema,
accommodation : revise the initial schema when there is a failure of assimilation and
come up with a new schema
What are the three perspectives of pregnancy and prenatal development? -
ANSWER: the parents, the developing embryo and scientific/clinical
recommendations
How do we optimize prenatal development? - ANSWER: nutrition, avoiding hazards
(teratogens)
What nutrients are important to increase? - ANSWER: protein (through animal
products), iron, folic acid, calcium, fluids, fluoride
What things are important to avoid? - ANSWER: caffeine
