LIFE SPAN PSYCHOLOGY 290 MIDTERM
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Lifelong, multidimensional (biological, cognitive, & socioemotional), multi-directional (dimensions
inc/dec or gain/lose), & plastic (fluid & changing) - answer ✔✔-What is Development?
1. Normative age-graded influences 2. Normative history-graded influences
3. Non-normative life events - answer ✔✔-What are the three types of Contextual Development?
Similar for individuals in a particular age group; puberty and beginning of school - answer ✔✔-Define
Normative age-graded influences
Common to people of a particular generation; (i.e., Great Depression and post-modern technology) -
answer ✔✔-Define Normative history-graded influences
Major impact on the individual - answer ✔✔-Define Non-normative life events
Biological, Cognitive, & socioemotional - answer ✔✔-Processes in multidimensional lifespan?
Sigmund Freud - answer ✔✔-Who theorized the five stages of psychosexual development?
1. Trust versus mistrust
2. Autonomy versus shame & doubt
3. Initiative versus guilt
4. Industry versus inferiority
, 5. Identity versus identity confusion
6. Intimacy versus isolation
7. Generativity versus stagnation
8. Integrity versus despair - answer ✔✔-According to Erik Erikson, what are the eight stages of
development?
1. Sensorimotor stage
2. Preoperational stage
3. Concrete operational stage
4. Formal operational stages - answer ✔✔-According to Jean Piaget, what are the four stages of
cognitive development?
Sociocultural cognitive theory of child development; recognizes the role of culture on development -
answer ✔✔-What did Lev Vygotsky theorize?
- answer ✔✔-Identify on diagram:
Long molecules of a substance called DNA, can be coped and carried over into next generation, usually
exist in pairs, nucleus contains 23 pairs - answer ✔✔-What is a chromosome?
Short sections of DNA; they are vulnerable (affected by environment & hormones), but are enduring
(Mitosis, Meiosis, & Zygote) - answer ✔✔-What are genes?
A person's genetic material; measurable - answer ✔✔-What is a Genotype?
Observable; height, weight, hair color, intelligence - answer ✔✔-What is a Phenotype?
Down syndrome (Trisomy 21), Klinefelter syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, Turner syndrome, XYY
syndrome - answer ✔✔-What are some chromosomal abnormalities?
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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ACCURATELY
Lifelong, multidimensional (biological, cognitive, & socioemotional), multi-directional (dimensions
inc/dec or gain/lose), & plastic (fluid & changing) - answer ✔✔-What is Development?
1. Normative age-graded influences 2. Normative history-graded influences
3. Non-normative life events - answer ✔✔-What are the three types of Contextual Development?
Similar for individuals in a particular age group; puberty and beginning of school - answer ✔✔-Define
Normative age-graded influences
Common to people of a particular generation; (i.e., Great Depression and post-modern technology) -
answer ✔✔-Define Normative history-graded influences
Major impact on the individual - answer ✔✔-Define Non-normative life events
Biological, Cognitive, & socioemotional - answer ✔✔-Processes in multidimensional lifespan?
Sigmund Freud - answer ✔✔-Who theorized the five stages of psychosexual development?
1. Trust versus mistrust
2. Autonomy versus shame & doubt
3. Initiative versus guilt
4. Industry versus inferiority
, 5. Identity versus identity confusion
6. Intimacy versus isolation
7. Generativity versus stagnation
8. Integrity versus despair - answer ✔✔-According to Erik Erikson, what are the eight stages of
development?
1. Sensorimotor stage
2. Preoperational stage
3. Concrete operational stage
4. Formal operational stages - answer ✔✔-According to Jean Piaget, what are the four stages of
cognitive development?
Sociocultural cognitive theory of child development; recognizes the role of culture on development -
answer ✔✔-What did Lev Vygotsky theorize?
- answer ✔✔-Identify on diagram:
Long molecules of a substance called DNA, can be coped and carried over into next generation, usually
exist in pairs, nucleus contains 23 pairs - answer ✔✔-What is a chromosome?
Short sections of DNA; they are vulnerable (affected by environment & hormones), but are enduring
(Mitosis, Meiosis, & Zygote) - answer ✔✔-What are genes?
A person's genetic material; measurable - answer ✔✔-What is a Genotype?
Observable; height, weight, hair color, intelligence - answer ✔✔-What is a Phenotype?
Down syndrome (Trisomy 21), Klinefelter syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, Turner syndrome, XYY
syndrome - answer ✔✔-What are some chromosomal abnormalities?
