LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ALL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Developmentalist approach to nature-nurture, continuity-discontinuity, and stabilit-
change issue - ✔✔Not all is one of the issues. They all characterize development
throughout the human life span.
✔✔Scientific method - ✔✔Tool to understand or answer questions about development
✔✔4 step process to Scientific Method - ✔✔Conceptualize a process or problem to be
studied.
Collect research information (data)
Analyze data
Draw conclusions
✔✔Conceptualize the Problem - ✔✔Draw on theories
Develop hypothesis
✔✔Theory - ✔✔Interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps to explain phenomena and
make predictions
, ✔✔Hypotheses - ✔✔Specific assertions and predictions thay can be tested.
✔✔Theories of development - ✔✔6
Psychoanalytic Theory
Cognitive Theory
Behavioral and Social Theory
Ethological Theory
Ecological Theory
Eclectic Theoretical Orientation
✔✔3 important Cognitive Theories - ✔✔Piaget Cognitive Developmental Theory
Vygotsky Sociocultural cognitive Theory
Information-processing (Robert Siegler)
Emphasis on conscious thought
✔✔Piaget Cognitive stages - ✔✔Sensor motor stage
Preoperational stage
Concrete operational stage
Formal operational stage
✔✔Sensor motor stage - ✔✔Birth to 2 yrs
Constructs understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with
psysical actions.
✔✔Preoperational stage - ✔✔2 to 7
Represents the world with words and images. Reflect symbolic thinking
✔✔Concrete operational stage - ✔✔7 to 11
Reason logically about concrete events
Classify objects into different sets
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Developmentalist approach to nature-nurture, continuity-discontinuity, and stabilit-
change issue - ✔✔Not all is one of the issues. They all characterize development
throughout the human life span.
✔✔Scientific method - ✔✔Tool to understand or answer questions about development
✔✔4 step process to Scientific Method - ✔✔Conceptualize a process or problem to be
studied.
Collect research information (data)
Analyze data
Draw conclusions
✔✔Conceptualize the Problem - ✔✔Draw on theories
Develop hypothesis
✔✔Theory - ✔✔Interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps to explain phenomena and
make predictions
, ✔✔Hypotheses - ✔✔Specific assertions and predictions thay can be tested.
✔✔Theories of development - ✔✔6
Psychoanalytic Theory
Cognitive Theory
Behavioral and Social Theory
Ethological Theory
Ecological Theory
Eclectic Theoretical Orientation
✔✔3 important Cognitive Theories - ✔✔Piaget Cognitive Developmental Theory
Vygotsky Sociocultural cognitive Theory
Information-processing (Robert Siegler)
Emphasis on conscious thought
✔✔Piaget Cognitive stages - ✔✔Sensor motor stage
Preoperational stage
Concrete operational stage
Formal operational stage
✔✔Sensor motor stage - ✔✔Birth to 2 yrs
Constructs understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with
psysical actions.
✔✔Preoperational stage - ✔✔2 to 7
Represents the world with words and images. Reflect symbolic thinking
✔✔Concrete operational stage - ✔✔7 to 11
Reason logically about concrete events
Classify objects into different sets
