Chapter 1 & 2: Lifespan Development
Lifespan development - (correct Answer) - Field of study that explores patters of stability, continuity,
growth and change that occur from birth to death
What are the domains of development? - (correct Answer) - Physical, cognitive, psychosocial and
emotional
Physical development - (correct Answer) - Changes in the body and how a person uses their body
Why study lifespan development? - (correct Answer) - Indicates typical behaviour, enables appropriate
responses, recognises deviations from the norm and enables advocacy.
List the 3 different lifespan development perspectives - (correct Answer) - Ecological system -
'Brofenbrenner'
Normative and non-normative system - 'Paul Baltes'
Developmental system - 'Ford + Lerner'
Theory - (correct Answer) - A set of ordered, integrated statements that seek to explain, describe and
predict human behaviour.
Cognitive Development - (correct Answer) - Changes in methods and styles of thinking, language ability
and language use, and strategies for remembering and recalling information.
Psychosocial development - (correct Answer) - Changes in feelings or emotions and well as changes in
relations with other people.
psychodynamic developmental theories - (correct Answer) - Freudian Theory - psychosexual
development
Erikson's psychosocial theory
Object relations - Mahler, Stern
behavioural and social cognitive developmental theories - (correct Answer) - Classic conditioning - Pavlov
Operant conditioning - Skinner
Observational learning - Bandura
cognitive developmental theories - (correct Answer) - Piaget's cognitive theory
Information Processing Theory
Neo Piagetian (Case, Fisher)
contextual developmental theories - (correct Answer) - Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory
Vygotsky's sociocultural theory
, Ethological theory
Adulthood and lifespan developmental theories - (correct Answer) - Normative-crisis model
Timing of events model
Dynamic systems perspective
Ecological system model - (correct Answer) - Individual develops within a complex system of
relationships and contexts which are sets of people, settings, recurring events, cultural values and
programs related to one another, have stability and influence the person over time.
Microsystem - (correct Answer) - Situations in which the person has face-to-face contact with influential
others. For example; family, school, peer group, church, workplace
Mesosystem - (correct Answer) - Connections and relationships that exist between two or more
microsystems and that influence the person because of their relationships. For example; home-school,
workplace-family, school-neighbourhood
Exosystem - (correct Answer) - Settings in which the person does not participate but still experiences
decisions and events that affect them indirectly. For example; Spouse's place of work, local school board,
government
Macrosystem - (correct Answer) - Overarching institutions, practices and patterns of belief that
characterise society as a whole and take the smaller micro-, meso-, exosystems into account. For
example; ideology, social policy, shared assumptions about human nature, the 'social-contract'.
Normative and non-normative perspective - (correct Answer) - Emphasises the nature of development
and important historical influences on development. Includes three influences determined by interaction
of environmental and biological factors.
Normative age-graded - (correct Answer) - Strong relationship with chronological age for example;
puberty
Normative history graded - (correct Answer) - War, plague, famine, introduction of television
Non-normative graded - (correct Answer) - Injury, divorce etc
Developmental systems perspective - (correct Answer) - Emphasis on how individual carries out
transactions with their environment and how, through these transactions, their biological, psychological,
behavioural and environment elements change or remain constant.
Individuals mind, body, physical and social worlds, and experiences as constantly in motion, creating an
integrated system that is dynamic and constantly evolving.
Four underlying foundations of developmental study - (correct Answer) - 1.Human continuity and change
2. Interplay between lifelong growth and (eventual) decline
Lifespan development - (correct Answer) - Field of study that explores patters of stability, continuity,
growth and change that occur from birth to death
What are the domains of development? - (correct Answer) - Physical, cognitive, psychosocial and
emotional
Physical development - (correct Answer) - Changes in the body and how a person uses their body
Why study lifespan development? - (correct Answer) - Indicates typical behaviour, enables appropriate
responses, recognises deviations from the norm and enables advocacy.
List the 3 different lifespan development perspectives - (correct Answer) - Ecological system -
'Brofenbrenner'
Normative and non-normative system - 'Paul Baltes'
Developmental system - 'Ford + Lerner'
Theory - (correct Answer) - A set of ordered, integrated statements that seek to explain, describe and
predict human behaviour.
Cognitive Development - (correct Answer) - Changes in methods and styles of thinking, language ability
and language use, and strategies for remembering and recalling information.
Psychosocial development - (correct Answer) - Changes in feelings or emotions and well as changes in
relations with other people.
psychodynamic developmental theories - (correct Answer) - Freudian Theory - psychosexual
development
Erikson's psychosocial theory
Object relations - Mahler, Stern
behavioural and social cognitive developmental theories - (correct Answer) - Classic conditioning - Pavlov
Operant conditioning - Skinner
Observational learning - Bandura
cognitive developmental theories - (correct Answer) - Piaget's cognitive theory
Information Processing Theory
Neo Piagetian (Case, Fisher)
contextual developmental theories - (correct Answer) - Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory
Vygotsky's sociocultural theory
, Ethological theory
Adulthood and lifespan developmental theories - (correct Answer) - Normative-crisis model
Timing of events model
Dynamic systems perspective
Ecological system model - (correct Answer) - Individual develops within a complex system of
relationships and contexts which are sets of people, settings, recurring events, cultural values and
programs related to one another, have stability and influence the person over time.
Microsystem - (correct Answer) - Situations in which the person has face-to-face contact with influential
others. For example; family, school, peer group, church, workplace
Mesosystem - (correct Answer) - Connections and relationships that exist between two or more
microsystems and that influence the person because of their relationships. For example; home-school,
workplace-family, school-neighbourhood
Exosystem - (correct Answer) - Settings in which the person does not participate but still experiences
decisions and events that affect them indirectly. For example; Spouse's place of work, local school board,
government
Macrosystem - (correct Answer) - Overarching institutions, practices and patterns of belief that
characterise society as a whole and take the smaller micro-, meso-, exosystems into account. For
example; ideology, social policy, shared assumptions about human nature, the 'social-contract'.
Normative and non-normative perspective - (correct Answer) - Emphasises the nature of development
and important historical influences on development. Includes three influences determined by interaction
of environmental and biological factors.
Normative age-graded - (correct Answer) - Strong relationship with chronological age for example;
puberty
Normative history graded - (correct Answer) - War, plague, famine, introduction of television
Non-normative graded - (correct Answer) - Injury, divorce etc
Developmental systems perspective - (correct Answer) - Emphasis on how individual carries out
transactions with their environment and how, through these transactions, their biological, psychological,
behavioural and environment elements change or remain constant.
Individuals mind, body, physical and social worlds, and experiences as constantly in motion, creating an
integrated system that is dynamic and constantly evolving.
Four underlying foundations of developmental study - (correct Answer) - 1.Human continuity and change
2. Interplay between lifelong growth and (eventual) decline
