NR 203 Midterm Exam with Accurate Answers.
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What is growth and development from a life span perspective? - ✔✔an approach to the study
of human development that includes all phases, from birth to death.
Multidirectional - ✔✔Human characteristics change in every direction, pace of change also
varies, gains and losses appear throughout life and are apparent historically and generationally
Multi-contextual - ✔✔Social context, historical context, and socioeconomic context
Multicultural - ✔✔Culture and social construction
Plasticity - ✔✔Human characteristics are moldable and can be changed.
What is the ecological-systems approach as shown by the Bioecological Model? - ✔✔A
perspective on human development that considers all of the influences from the various
contexts of development.
microsystem - ✔✔Immediate, direct influences Ex: family, school, neighborhood, peer group,
house of worship
macrosystem - ✔✔cultural patterns, political philosophies, economic policies, and social
conditions.
mesosystem - ✔✔interactions among systems as when parents and teachers coordinate to
educate a child
, chronosystem - ✔✔Dimension of time, changing conditions, personal and societal, over the life
span
exosystem - ✔✔religious values, mass media, transportation systems, medical institutions,
community structures, educational systems.
What does the nature/nurture debate mean related to the process of human growth and
development? Include examples - ✔✔between 1957 and 1961 thousands of pregnant woman
took a antinausea medication and the change in nurture was the mothers blood reaching the
embryo by the umbilical cord disrupted nature which is the genetic program directing limb
formation.
critical period - ✔✔Time when a particular development must occur.
Sensitive period - ✔✔A time when I particular development growth is most likely to occur,
although it may still happen later.
what are the different developmental theories and what does the theory focus on and offer for
growth and development issues? - ✔✔psychoanalytic and psychodynamic
psychoanalytic theory - ✔✔Proposes that irrational, unconscious drives and motives, often
originating in childhood, underlie human behavior.
Psychosexual theory - ✔✔(Freud) Believed development in the first six years effect, personality,
impulses, and emotions lifelong. Each stage is characterized by sexual pleasure on a particular
part of the body.
Psychosocial theory - ✔✔(Erickson) emphasizes family and culture, not sexual urges, eight
developmental stages each characterized by a challenging developmental crisis.
Latest Edition
What is growth and development from a life span perspective? - ✔✔an approach to the study
of human development that includes all phases, from birth to death.
Multidirectional - ✔✔Human characteristics change in every direction, pace of change also
varies, gains and losses appear throughout life and are apparent historically and generationally
Multi-contextual - ✔✔Social context, historical context, and socioeconomic context
Multicultural - ✔✔Culture and social construction
Plasticity - ✔✔Human characteristics are moldable and can be changed.
What is the ecological-systems approach as shown by the Bioecological Model? - ✔✔A
perspective on human development that considers all of the influences from the various
contexts of development.
microsystem - ✔✔Immediate, direct influences Ex: family, school, neighborhood, peer group,
house of worship
macrosystem - ✔✔cultural patterns, political philosophies, economic policies, and social
conditions.
mesosystem - ✔✔interactions among systems as when parents and teachers coordinate to
educate a child
, chronosystem - ✔✔Dimension of time, changing conditions, personal and societal, over the life
span
exosystem - ✔✔religious values, mass media, transportation systems, medical institutions,
community structures, educational systems.
What does the nature/nurture debate mean related to the process of human growth and
development? Include examples - ✔✔between 1957 and 1961 thousands of pregnant woman
took a antinausea medication and the change in nurture was the mothers blood reaching the
embryo by the umbilical cord disrupted nature which is the genetic program directing limb
formation.
critical period - ✔✔Time when a particular development must occur.
Sensitive period - ✔✔A time when I particular development growth is most likely to occur,
although it may still happen later.
what are the different developmental theories and what does the theory focus on and offer for
growth and development issues? - ✔✔psychoanalytic and psychodynamic
psychoanalytic theory - ✔✔Proposes that irrational, unconscious drives and motives, often
originating in childhood, underlie human behavior.
Psychosexual theory - ✔✔(Freud) Believed development in the first six years effect, personality,
impulses, and emotions lifelong. Each stage is characterized by sexual pleasure on a particular
part of the body.
Psychosocial theory - ✔✔(Erickson) emphasizes family and culture, not sexual urges, eight
developmental stages each characterized by a challenging developmental crisis.
