1.1 What is Lifespan Development

Question 1

What are the dimensions of lifespan development?

Answer 1

physical
social
cognitive
emotional

Question 2

What are the major periods of developments throughout a lifespan?

Answer 2

prenatal
infancy/toddlerhood
early childhood
middle childhood
adolescence
early adulthood
middle adulthood
late adulthood

Question 3

What are the distinctive features of human development?

Answer 3

1. it is lifelong
2. is it multidirectional
3. it is multidisciplinary
4. it ismultidimensional

Question 4

What is the loose definition of development?

Answer 4

change

Question 5

What is the definition of aging?

Answer 5

becoming old

Question 6

What is the definition of growth?

Answer 6

physical changes

Question 7

What does it mean that development is multidirectional?

Answer 7

development can be good or bad

Question 8

What is maturation?

Answer 8

when something becomes more developed and more advanced

Question 9

What are the three ways we can mature?

Answer 9

physically
emotionally
cognitively

Question 10

What is an example of multidirectional development?

Answer 10

someone is aging yet becoming more emotionally mature

Question 11

What does it mean that development is multidisciplinary?

Answer 11

different professional fields deal with development: health sciences, social sciences, eduaction

Question 12

What does it mean that development is multidimensional?

Answer 12

we experience biological, social, emotional, and cognitive changes