LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT CORE MAIN EXAMINATION SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT CORE MAIN
EXAMINATION SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Vygotsky Sociocultural cognitive Theory - ✔✔Emphasis how culture and social
interaction guide cognitive development.

Involves learning to use the inventions of society

Zone of proximal development

Scaffolding

✔✔Information-processing Theory - ✔✔Emphasis on ways that individuals manipulate
information, monitor it, and strategize about it.

Develop gradually increasing capacity for processing info. Allows them to acquire
increasingly complex knowledge and skills

Thinking is information processing

✔✔Behavioral and social cognitive theories - ✔✔Behaviorism - we can study only what
can be directly observed and measured

, Two versions

B. F. Skinner operant conditioning

Albert bandung social cognitive Theory

✔✔Skinner operant conditioning - ✔✔Consequences of behavior produce change in the
probability of the behaviors occurrence

Rewards and punishments shape development

✔✔Banderas social cognitive Theory - ✔✔Behavior, environment, and cognition are the
key factors in development

Observational leaning ( imitation modeling)
Ppl cognitively represent the behavior of others and then sometimes adopt this
behavior themselves.

✔✔Ethological Theory - ✔✔Behavior is influenced by biology
Tied to evolution
Characterized by critical and sensitive periods

Ethologists
Konrad Lorenz - research on greylag geese
John Bowlby - attachment theory

✔✔Ecology Theory - ✔✔Emphasis on environmental factors

Ecological theories

Bronfenbrenner ecological theory

Microsystems
Mesosystem
Exosystem
Microsystems
Chronosystems

✔✔Microsystems - ✔✔Individual sex age health etc.

Health services
Family
School
Peers