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A field of study devoted to understanding constancy and change throughout the lifespan -
Answer✔developmental science
an explanation using an integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts
behaviors - Answer✔Theory
a process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there to begin with -
Answer✔continuous development
a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific
times - Answer✔discontinuous development
qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of
development - Answer✔stages
open to change in response to influential experiences - Answer✔Plasticity
Theories that accept the ______________ perspective think that development takes place in
stages. - Answer✔discontinuous
Theorists who emphasize stability stress the importance of - Answer✔heredity
Theorists who regard environmental influences as key factors in development believe that
_____________ are most important. - Answer✔early experiences
What are the lifespan perspective's 4 assumptions? - Answer✔development is lifelong,
development is multidimensional and multidirectional, development is plastic, development is
influenced by multiple, interacting factors
According to the lifespan perspective, what forces is development influenced by? -
Answer✔biological, historical, social, and cultural
According to the lifespan perspective, what are the 3 types of influences? - Answer✔1. age
graded
2. history graded
3. nonnormative
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What type of influence has to do with events that are strongly related to age and are therefore
fairly predicatable? - Answer✔age graded influences
What type of influence explains why people who are born around the same time tend to be alike
in different ways - Answer✔history graded influences
What type of influence includes events that happen to one person or just a few people and do not
follow a particular timetable? - Answer✔nonnormative influences
What are the 8 major periods of human development? - Answer✔1. prenatal (conception to birth)
2. infancy and toddlerhood (0-2)
3. Early childhood (2-6)
4. middle childhood (6-11)
5. adolescence (11-18)
6. early adulthood (18-40)
7. middle adulthood (40-65)
8. late adulthood (65-death)
Who created the theory of evolution? - Answer✔Charles Darwin
What 2 principles does the theory of evolution emphasize? - Answer✔natural selection and
survival of the fittest
who is regarded as the founder of the child study movement? - Answer✔G. Stanley Hall
What is the name of a genetically determined set of events that unfold automatically and who
devised it? - Answer✔maturational process; Hall and Gesell
Who launched the normative approach? - Answer✔Hall and Gesell
measures of behavior are taken on large numbers of individuals and age-related averages are
computed to represent typical development - Answer✔the normative approach
who invented the first successful intelligence test - Answer✔alfred binet and theodore simon
in 1916, stanford adapted Binet's test and it became known as - Answer✔the Stanford-Binet
intelligence scale
people move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts between biological
desires and societal expectations. How these conflicts are resolved determines the person's ability
to learn, get along with others, and cope with anxiety... what perspective is this? - Answer✔The
Psychoanalytic Perspective
who are are the two influential people who contributed to the psychoanalytic perspective -
Answer✔Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson
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What theory was created by Sigmund Freud? - Answer✔Psychosexual theory
What theory emphasizes that how parents manage their child's sexual and aggressive drives in
the first few years is crucial for healthy personality development - Answer✔Psychosexual theory
What are the 3 parts of the personality according to psychosexual theory? - Answer✔Id, ego,
superego
What is the id? - Answer✔the largest portion of the mind, is the source of basic biological needs
and desires
What is the ego? - Answer✔the conscious, rational part of personality, emerges in early infancy
to redirect the id's impulses so that they are discharged in acceptable ways
what is the superego? - Answer✔develops as parents insist that children conform to the values of
society (between ages 3-6)
The ________ reconciles the demands of the id, the external world, and the conscience -
Answer✔ego
What theory was created by Erik Erikson? - Answer✔Psychosocial theory
what theory emphasized that in addition to mediating between id impulses and superego
demands, the ego makes a positive contribution to development, acquiring attitudes and skills
that make the individual an active, contributing member of society? - Answer✔psychosocial
theory
What are erikson's psychosocial stages? - Answer✔1.trust vs. mistrust (infancy)
2. autonomy vs. shame and doubt (early childhood)
3. initiative vs. guilt (preschool age)
4. industry vs. inferiority (school age)
5. identity vs. role confusion (adolescence)
6. intimacy vs. isolation (young adulthood)
7. generatively vs. stagnation (middle age)
8. integrity vs. despair (later life)
What is the belief of behaviorism and social learning theory? - Answer✔directly observable
events- stimuli and responses- are the appropriate focus of study
What is classical conditioning? - Answer✔stimulus and response
What is operant conditioning? - Answer✔a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if
followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher
Who are the two people associated with traditional behaviorism? - Answer✔John Watson and
B.F. Skinner
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BEP 550 Exam Questions And Answers
100% Guaranteed Pass.
A field of study devoted to understanding constancy and change throughout the lifespan -
Answer✔developmental science
an explanation using an integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts
behaviors - Answer✔Theory
a process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there to begin with -
Answer✔continuous development
a process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific
times - Answer✔discontinuous development
qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of
development - Answer✔stages
open to change in response to influential experiences - Answer✔Plasticity
Theories that accept the ______________ perspective think that development takes place in
stages. - Answer✔discontinuous
Theorists who emphasize stability stress the importance of - Answer✔heredity
Theorists who regard environmental influences as key factors in development believe that
_____________ are most important. - Answer✔early experiences
What are the lifespan perspective's 4 assumptions? - Answer✔development is lifelong,
development is multidimensional and multidirectional, development is plastic, development is
influenced by multiple, interacting factors
According to the lifespan perspective, what forces is development influenced by? -
Answer✔biological, historical, social, and cultural
According to the lifespan perspective, what are the 3 types of influences? - Answer✔1. age
graded
2. history graded
3. nonnormative
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What type of influence has to do with events that are strongly related to age and are therefore
fairly predicatable? - Answer✔age graded influences
What type of influence explains why people who are born around the same time tend to be alike
in different ways - Answer✔history graded influences
What type of influence includes events that happen to one person or just a few people and do not
follow a particular timetable? - Answer✔nonnormative influences
What are the 8 major periods of human development? - Answer✔1. prenatal (conception to birth)
2. infancy and toddlerhood (0-2)
3. Early childhood (2-6)
4. middle childhood (6-11)
5. adolescence (11-18)
6. early adulthood (18-40)
7. middle adulthood (40-65)
8. late adulthood (65-death)
Who created the theory of evolution? - Answer✔Charles Darwin
What 2 principles does the theory of evolution emphasize? - Answer✔natural selection and
survival of the fittest
who is regarded as the founder of the child study movement? - Answer✔G. Stanley Hall
What is the name of a genetically determined set of events that unfold automatically and who
devised it? - Answer✔maturational process; Hall and Gesell
Who launched the normative approach? - Answer✔Hall and Gesell
measures of behavior are taken on large numbers of individuals and age-related averages are
computed to represent typical development - Answer✔the normative approach
who invented the first successful intelligence test - Answer✔alfred binet and theodore simon
in 1916, stanford adapted Binet's test and it became known as - Answer✔the Stanford-Binet
intelligence scale
people move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts between biological
desires and societal expectations. How these conflicts are resolved determines the person's ability
to learn, get along with others, and cope with anxiety... what perspective is this? - Answer✔The
Psychoanalytic Perspective
who are are the two influential people who contributed to the psychoanalytic perspective -
Answer✔Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson
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What theory was created by Sigmund Freud? - Answer✔Psychosexual theory
What theory emphasizes that how parents manage their child's sexual and aggressive drives in
the first few years is crucial for healthy personality development - Answer✔Psychosexual theory
What are the 3 parts of the personality according to psychosexual theory? - Answer✔Id, ego,
superego
What is the id? - Answer✔the largest portion of the mind, is the source of basic biological needs
and desires
What is the ego? - Answer✔the conscious, rational part of personality, emerges in early infancy
to redirect the id's impulses so that they are discharged in acceptable ways
what is the superego? - Answer✔develops as parents insist that children conform to the values of
society (between ages 3-6)
The ________ reconciles the demands of the id, the external world, and the conscience -
Answer✔ego
What theory was created by Erik Erikson? - Answer✔Psychosocial theory
what theory emphasized that in addition to mediating between id impulses and superego
demands, the ego makes a positive contribution to development, acquiring attitudes and skills
that make the individual an active, contributing member of society? - Answer✔psychosocial
theory
What are erikson's psychosocial stages? - Answer✔1.trust vs. mistrust (infancy)
2. autonomy vs. shame and doubt (early childhood)
3. initiative vs. guilt (preschool age)
4. industry vs. inferiority (school age)
5. identity vs. role confusion (adolescence)
6. intimacy vs. isolation (young adulthood)
7. generatively vs. stagnation (middle age)
8. integrity vs. despair (later life)
What is the belief of behaviorism and social learning theory? - Answer✔directly observable
events- stimuli and responses- are the appropriate focus of study
What is classical conditioning? - Answer✔stimulus and response
What is operant conditioning? - Answer✔a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if
followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher
Who are the two people associated with traditional behaviorism? - Answer✔John Watson and
B.F. Skinner
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